I think the biggest problem with the way politics is talked about in pop culture is that it's centered on politicians and legislation instead of donors and agendas.

What if we all just start rewriting political tweets en masse with donor names instead the politicians names? An example would be tweets about the destruction of USPS. Instead of Trump and Dejoy, we're replace them with Frederick W Smith and David P Abney, the founders and CEO's of UPS and FedEx. They've spent hundreds of millions on lobbying and contributions.

Smith and Abney put a hit out on USPS and Trump and Dejoy are the the guys taking the contract. Shouldn't our economic and political discourse focus on the sources of the decisions, the donor-class?

  • PopCultureIsTheCIA [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    You know how when a for-profit business wedges itself into a non-profit supply chain it eventually ends up spreading its tendrils and privatizes the whole thing? Well i think it also works in reverse. If they hadn't been trying to destroy USPS for the past two decades, it would have been growing into other parts of the economy. If it wasn't for a few hundred spent on lobbying, we'd have USPS public banking and all kinds of other shit and they knew it.

    • Leftoid [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Efficacy is persusasive. I mean, we really have to look to the USPS as a model of efficient government service, in operation, over a non-trivial time domain...I believe that this model, coupled with a few of the recent digtal transparency advances could really lead, via better-than-corporate alternative, legitimate government competition to private infrastructural services....to a degree this is almost ideal.

      Corporations risk, customers test, government (perhaps via public private partnership, as in public transport) supersedes....a new layer of infrastructure is created and corporations can risk in a yet undreamed of realm.