There's an unspoken bargain we've all signed up for and it's become increasingly clear that we've been had. Here is these United States especially we have been promised a wealth of free market choices and an optimization of the  convenient methods in which to obtain them. You can now order nearly everything from the palm of your hands, without having to be subjected to the consequences of these decisions. Our online spaces and physical spaces are now dominated by increasingly omnipotent corporate entities. Apple, Amazon, American Express and Chase get access to all the best real estate then charge us for the privilege of renting it from them. This model is repeated all over the country and more and more across the world. Thankfully, for many (but not all) of those in other countries there are controls to prevent capitalism from going right off the rails. In Canada, the banks can only get so big and so brutal. In Europe they still try to prioritize public spaces over private ones at least some of the time. There are still limits on how allied politicians can be with corporate entities. For now at least you cannot own the government. In places like Russia, the dictionary definition of an oligarchy lives and breathes in the states' institutions. In the US, these borders have always been fuzzy but up until recently they still stood, if tenuously. Now, all bets are off. The hens have handed the keys to the henhouse to the foxes and still don't understand what all the fuss is about. This is very very bad and will only get worse until voters make the connection between their actions and their apathy and the reason they have been excluded from the insane spigots of wealth that are about to be unleashed for the few. Bernie Sanders is going on a speaking tour to spread the gospel. AOC preaches the truth every day online. This is going to be a trench warfare of ideas. The only weapons at our disposal will be the Law, the courts, the streets, and public forums, and millions of individual voices stitched together.
 

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