It is difficult to articulate the speed with which the U.S. and, indeed, the world, has descended into an existential crisis.
The deadly spread of COVID-19 demands enclosure as a way to starve the searching virus of bodies to inhabit.
The consequences of doing so removes workers from work and consumers from consumption; no economy can operate under these conditions.
It revealed the disaster within the disaster; gruelling poverty rose to the surface like a bruise to our skin.”.
The poor are relegated as socially dysfunctional and inept, unable to cash in on the riches of American society.
There are more than forty million poor people in the U.S., but they almost never merit a mention.
When Nixon ran for reëlection, in 1972, he claimed that his campaign pitted the “work ethic” against the “welfare ethic. »
