Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The GOP strategy is to create a nation of enraged nihilists who don't even *imagine* ...
The GOP strategy is to create a nation of enraged nihilists who don't even *imagine* that the government could do something to hold their bosses to account - not for labor abuses, not for pollution, not for wage theft or bribery.
The fact that successive neoliberal governments - including Democratic administrations - acted time and again to bear out this hypothesis makes it easy for this kind of nihilism to take hold.
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