I made a substack for this so you can send it to your libbed up friends and family. Also like/comment on the article that would be cool, im sure that helps spread it somehow
Premise: A lot of great socialist and left-leaning people have dismantled the main point of the Bidenomics argument by showing that many millions of people were left behind. This article is coming in to destroy what little remains after that - even the best case scenario is still just wrong and delusional.
The Guardian had an editorial this week making a similar point. People got to experience life with an actual social safety net for a while, realized how much easier it made life even in the midst of a global pandemic, and now they’re pissed that it’s gone.
I still remember a couple years ago when a lot of people said the global pandemic was by far the best time of their lives. Just vibing, doing hobbies, finally truly decompressing after decades. They won’t ever forget that feeling
It feels fucked up to say given how many lives it destroyed, but in some ways, the pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to me. It let me start working from home. No longer being under the office panopticon or having to mask (in the autistic sense) for 8 hours a day was a massive load off of my back.
Same, I didn’t realize how exhausted I was masking at work as an autistic person every day until I was allowed to stop doing it.
If anything, I actually get more work done now than pre-pandemic.
Supposedly, this is what allowed Britain to build a welfare state after the second world war as well. The poor actually saw general nutrition improve during rationing, and they witnessed what the state could accomplish if it really wanted to.
The rich realised this, and figured out that if they didn’t throw a bone to the working class, they were going to end up dead, and so compromised.
Having the Red Army located in Eastern Germany surely also helped make the prospect of revolution go from specter to reality.
It probably helped, though it’s not like they were ever getting across the channel.