The Skinny: And Sometimes You Miss

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One Out of Three Will Have to Do

Whelp, they can’t all be winners. In this edition of The Skinny, which was originally published on October 16th of 2019, I managed to follow up an excellent little discussion about concentration camps for migrants and the American private prison industry, with a couple of 2020 election predictions that turned out to be rubbish. Specifically, I predicted that Biden’s reactionary past would come back to haunt him in a potential election with Trump, and that The Squad’s endorsement of Bernie would be a big factor in the Democratic Party Nomination Contest. As you can see today in 2021, neither of those things turned out to be true.

Tragically, the mini-essay about private prison contractors and the manufactured border crisis remains relevant to this day however; so it wasn’t all for naught.

“When you’re trying to figure out how this happened, why we’re allowing baby jails, concentration camps, open nepotism, threats of civil war, a government standing in flagrant violation of its own laws, why aren’t we arresting fascist street gangs, how are we tolerating the very existence reactionary mass shooters openly inspired by the fascist rhetoric of an reality TV show president – it’s important to remember that someone, somewhere with enough power and influence to sway government policy is probably getting an extra five dollars a share and a cushy job on the board after he retires.”

Check it out on my (always free to read) Patreon Blog by clicking on the quotation block above, or the title header below:

Fascist Financial Incentives, Biden Should Drop Out, and Squad Goals

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