How populism gets it wrong
Added 2021-02-05 18:55:55 +0000 UTCCheck out Andy's new essay about anti-vaxx, sympathy for QAnon, and an emerging tendency of centrist populism, and subscribe to his free newsletter if you like it!
Excerpt:
It is of course totally appropriate to emphasize that things have gotten so bad because institutions are rotten. The online system to receive an appointment reminded of trying to get tickets from TicketMaster at 11:00 AM knowing they will be sold out by 11:05, leading to a gross disparity of those vaccinated leaning young and white, even though those worst effected by the virus are elderly people of color and immigrants. A recent CNN article framed this as if whites were greedily traveling from “outside the community” to steal the shots. In reality, these were the only slots available. This mirrors how the vaccine will be distributed on a global scale. The first world gets it first. Developing countries maybe in a few years, if ever. No one had to argue this was the best and most just way to distribute the vaccine, nor was it a malfunction. This was not a case of a broken system—it was a system designed by and for a certain social strata. “The rich get richer and poor get the picture,” as Australian rockers Midnight Oil once put it.
https://gittlitz.substack.com/p/everything-is-not-broken
Comments
between the pod, the interviews, and the articles, the antifada is recruiting a red army. Capitalisms days are numbered.
enzothebaker88
2021-02-14 01:31:29 +0000 UTCWow Andy, tell us how you really feel. Great piece 👍
Tim L
2021-02-08 02:53:42 +0000 UTC
