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The Mob Takes Down Another Fool
Chamath Palihapitiya just tweeted: People want you to think that everything is always about left versus right. It’s not. It’s about insiders versus outsiders.
He s right, of course. And with the democratization of information, we are all more aware of how we are getting screwed.
I wrote:
Basic institutions that have built trust over hundreds of years are under siege. The concepts that used to be trusted are now second-guessed at every opportunity the rule of law, the courts, Congress, the presidency, universities, voting, Wall Street, unions, housing, trade, international treaties, the military, books, TV news, newspapers, political parties, law enforcement, the FBI, CIA, ICE, EPA, BLM, NFL… Name it and it is embroiled in some controversy.