Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈Aug 10, 2023

Growing up Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher told us that capitalism went hand in hand with freedom and democracy.

Today we can see that capitalists can quite comfortably walk hand in hand with authoritarianism and fascism to maintain and consolidate their wealth and power.

Show threadMelissa B
@danwentzel And I think it was when the capitalists themselves stopped believing this Reagan/Thatcher argument that things really started spiralling out of control.
Aug 10, 2023 at 9:26pmWeb
Show threadDavid FetterAug 10, 2023
@MelissaBenyon @danwentzel they never started believing those things, so they couldn't really stop.
Show threadMelissa BAug 10, 2023
@davidfetter Ha, I guess. I think some did believe, the rest pretended to. Now they don't even pretend.