Since 2008, Central Banks, in a desperate move to gloss over the obscene greed and malfeasance of Corporate Banks, printed $25Trillion which kicked the can of reckoning down the road for a decade.
Well, we’ve run out of road and US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell is being very clear that shit is about to hit the fan.
An economic depression generated by geopolitical friction beyond our control is going to swamp us with enormous social damage and political carnage.
The Left must be ready for this.
Unfortunately our focus is on alienating woke dogma virtue signals like hate speech, cancelling Hairy Maclary for lack of gender representation, or painting out the Lion King in Te Reo as the greatest cultural achievement since Shakespeare.
We need less alienating pronoun policing on the Left and more focus on universal services that provide material well being to people who are hurting right now and will be suffering in 6 months.
We need to remove the yoke of taxation from the 90% and reset it to the 10% richest.
The minefield of social justice and its never ending pure temple deplatforming of everything that triggers it will only drive people further from the Left in an intense economic downturn because you can’t eat virtue signalling aesthetics.
If you think the worst inflation in 30 years is bad now, wait until the impact of the Ukrainian war and broken supply chains in China hit.
We need to be kinder to individuals and crueller to corporations.
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