Source: Western Regional Advocacy Project
We could write a whole article on the shit storm that has hit at the federal level and then reel off reactionary oppressive measures that local and state governments are imposing in response to the massive numbers of people they know damn well are going to be dying, suffering, hurting, living in the streets — and be mad as hell.
Suffice it to say, 2025 America has implemented the long-planned and inevitable work plan of neoliberal governance in the USA. America’s “Banana Republic” pilot projects, which used the profits of commercial enterprise and the ruling class to exploit and colonize South and Central America, are now complete. Trump is the personification of Reagan’s Revolution and its mantra that anything the government does for the public good without a profit margin for corporate interests is socialism. Clinton’s Contract with America privatized welfare and cut 300,000 disabled people off benefits. Hope VI demolished or sold off over 500,000 units of Public Housing and replaced them with vouchers for the private housing market, where people only have 4-6 months to use before being forced to turn them back in if they can’t find a landlord who will accept them. Bush’s compassionate conservatism solidified the mantra that tax breaks for the rich are economic stimulus and social benefits are evil. Obama’s TARP mortgage company bailouts pushed that concept to its heights: People lost their homes while banks and investors got bailouts, all in the name of saving our economy. And these are just a few examples.
It’s a progression that in hindsight makes perfect sense, and each step in the path generated big time opposition. And yet the train kept rolling.
