This article critiques the dominant narratives in American politics and society. It argues that these narratives, characterized by victim blaming and a focus on external threats like immigration, mask deeper issues such as capitalist greed and institutional inequity. The author further examines the 'climate doomer' narrative, suggesting that it reflects a wider sense of hopelessness and despair among those disillusioned by the system.
I think of American political narratives as being like wayward car horns—unpleasant cacophonous noise blasting so discordantly that you still hear it after it stops. The repetition conveys a noxious habit—blaming victims and absolving the powerful. Thus, America crumbles and implodes, not from capitalist greed and institutional inequity, but from immigrant invasions.
In America, neurological injuries from lead combined with available fire arms, poverty and lack of opportunity. These factors, in concert, drove murder rates through the roof. The U.S. murder rate reached a pinnacle in 1980 with 10.4 murders per 100,000 people—just in time for the election of Ronald 'trickle down' Reagan.
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