Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@michaelharriot Through eyes that see, the world over, it's plain as daylight: the greatest barrier confronting a functional solution to what ails US democracy, is a pissing match, imagined by its largely White protagonists as the holiest, highest ground of necessity, probity and significance.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 4 Jan 2022

“The losers in the resolution of past democratic crises in the United States have, more often than not, been Black Americans,” says Rob Lieberman, an expert on American political history at Johns Hopkins." t.co/RoqYGr6Fjc

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Quoted by@RizomaSchool The real fight? Not the political fight, but to put an end to politics. We rise not as a political category but as an earth-inclusive moral fusion movement transcending a Spectacle simply incapable of recognizing, never mind enacting, a coherent response to this era's polycrisis.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @NewStatesman "If you are poor, you are living in a failed state." - @moshik_temkin Not slavery: perpetual poverty. A form of Final Solution with every interest in preserving and weaponizing a diabolical image of a non-human underclass. Endless War on the Poor. @UniteThePoorQuoted by@NewStatesman "If you are poor, you are living in a failed state." - @moshik_temkin Not slavery: perpetual poverty. A form of Final Solution with every interest in preserving and weaponizing a diabolical image of a non-human underclass. Endless War on the Poor. @UniteThePoor