Dear USA: When You Were Awesome. A letter to America from the boy in western Sydney who was once your biggest fan

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1. K&R for a heartbreaking, but necessary post

Thanks for posting this, Amaryllis. We should all read the whole thing. Here's another excerpt:

And there’s one more thing I want to say, and it’s to the Democrats.

When you win it back, and you will, you have to actually fucking fix it this time.

You don’t get to go back to the way things were. You don’t get to coast on the relief of him being gone. You don’t get to spend the next 4 years patting yourselves on the back for being the adults in the room.

Because what made him possible was 40 years of neoliberal rot. 40 years of offshoring. 40 years of stagnant wages. 40 years of healthcare bankruptcies. 40 years of pretending trickle-down was real economics and not a hostage note from the donor class. The germination of Trumpism is in the soil you helped till. You and the Republicans both, but you, the Democrats, were supposed to be the bulwark, and you sold out to the same donors and now here we are.

So when you get the keys back, you have to dig the rot out. Tax the bastards. Break up the monopolies. Fund the schools. Cancel the medical debt. Build the housing. Stop pretending Wall Street is the economy and Main Street is just there to applaud.

And throw a shitload of motherfuckers in prison.