Fake Reform Foisted on Us by Those who Benefit Most from the Current Dysfunction

ConclusionGiridharadas suggested inan interview in New York Magazine,What all that does is create this moral glow. And under the haze created by that glow, they ’re able to create a probable monopoly that has harmed the most sacred thing in America, which is our electoral process, while gutting the other most sacred thing in America, our free press. And they do itunder the cover of changing the world.Unfortunately, he apparently has not come up with what to do about this problem.  The best conclusion I can reach derives from the end of areview of his book by Joseph Stiglitz in the New York Times,Democracy and high levels of inequality of the kind that have come to characterize the United States are simply incompatible. Very rich people will always use money to maintain their political and economic power. But now we have another group: the unwitting enablers. Despite believing they are working for a better world, they are at most chipping away at the margins, making slight course corrections, while the system goes on as it is, uninterrupted.So I say first, beware of fake reform pitched by those who benefit most from the current dysfunction, call it out, and whatever you do, do not continue enabling it.
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