From Reddit to the New York Times and TMZ, there’s an ongoing effort to squash the wave of popular anger at for-profit healthcare that Luigi Mangione represents.
From Reddit to the New York Times and TMZ, there’s an ongoing effort to squash the wave of popular anger at for-profit healthcare that Luigi Mangione represents.
The US has a number of institutional failures that need to be addressed if it’s to have any hope of surviving and the Trump presidency is not only not going to address them, but has for all intents and purposes taken it as its mandate to specifically focus on exacerbating them.
It’s dealing with wealth inequality by increasing it. It’s dealing with political corruption by institutionalizing it. It’s dealing with fragile and ineffective public health, public education and social service systems by breaking them. It’s dealing with rapacious corporations by eliminating constraints on them. It’s dealing with climate change by encouraging it. It’s dealing with diminished international stature by alienating literally everyone. It’s dealing with the threat of economic collapse by destroying international markets. It’s dealing with the threat of social unrest by fanning the flames of bigotry and hatred. And on and on.
It’s essentially the equivalent of a cancer patient taking up smoking. In a house lined with asbestos and uranium.
And at that point, it really doesn’t matter who wants to save them or how much they want it.