Swanson: To a 2026 of Not Fighting Over Crumbs
To a 2026 of Not Fighting Over Crumbs Leave a Comment / December 26, 2025 Every single person in the United States, from those who’ve been most harmed to those who’ve been most privileged, would be better off if we had a normal government that put even a moderate effort into universally improving everyone’s lives. If we had a government that took trillions of dollars away from the war machine and the untaxed oligarchs and provided as a matter of basic rights for all economic welfare, education, preschool through college, healthcare, a clean and sustainable environment, and public transit, then nobody would ever be denied an education or a job for any reason of hateful idiocy. Why should they be when we’re absolutely rolling in wealth? We could obviously do a much better job of fighting over the crumbs we’ve got, with more context and nuance, but why should we, and how dare we? We need to be putting everything we’ve got ...
