I'm coming around to thinking the two most important radical policy goals in my lifetime are prison abolition and open borders And, ironically, they're probably also the most pragmatic goals *because* they are so radical and seemingly unthinkable
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Ironically, these are the two goals that "pragmatists" -- BOTH on the liberal side and the radical leftist side -- wave away as distractions Over and over I hear that "abolish cops, abolish ICE" drives away the normies and you gotta stay laser focused on jobs and healthcare
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And, you know, I think they're 180 degrees wrong I think that as noble as the NHS's existence in the UK is and as many lives as it's saved, it did very little to change the kind of country the UK is It has been constantly vulnerable to attacks and co-option from the right wing
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All of the massive advances in social welfare of the New Deal came with this asterisk, this loophole, to make them acceptable to conservatives "These benefits are only for Real True Americans, they are a birthright of blood that can be voided by criminality"
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And that loophole is the gateway through which the enemy armies come If the whole system is built on a principle of exclusion then whoever gets their hands on the levers of power can manipulate the definition of a Real True American to take it from anyone they want
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