They’re not surrendering. They’re doing what they always do… what Milton Freedman and the United States courts have made mandatory, putting profitability ahead of all concerns.
Frankly, for centrists like Harris and Newsom to imagine that elites would be patriots is why neoliberal mythology needs to be destroyed. Liberty doesn’t trickle down either.
The elites aren’t cowards who ran away. They’ve planned this since FDR implemented the New Deal. This has been by design.
So how’s that work? Before Zuckerberg became an elite he has to go to a secret ceremony and take a pledge? What about everyone else who wasn’t rich till fairly recently.
John Oliver said it: they need to start responding with “fuck you, make me.”
And senior military staff need to start responding by citing why they won’t carry out illegal orders.
We need to start responding with “fuck you, make me.”
Same as it ever was
