When economies stagnate, the social order breaks. Every modern society has a pretty simple social order: a broad middle class, a tiny number of rich, and a slightly larger number of poor. The problem is that when economies stagnate, this order gets upended. The middle becomes the new poor. The old poor become truly desperate. And the rich become the ultra-rich. In this way, social order breaks apart. And that also means that society loses faith, trust, and hope in themselves — and the people in them lose a sense of belonging, meaning, and mattering. #Tweetthis

What happened was something like this. Facebook built this huge empire thanks to the laws of network economics. And then Facebook decided that all this gave it a license to put personal politics first. It allowed hate to spread, vitriol became the norm, disinformation was rampant, and so forth. Yep, Facebook Blew itself apart! #Tweetthis

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Republicans, having taken inspiration from Jan 6th, are mounting a sophisticated attack on the workings of American democracy. It centers around the electoral college — America’s backward democratic system which was effectively put in place to protect the interests of landowners, meaning slave “owners.” The electoral college already gives the Republicans a significant advantage during elections. But the Republicans have realized that the electoral college — and elections themselves — are the Achilles’ heel of American democracy. If a state’s secretary of state, for example, simply refuses to “certify” a “slate of electors” — the people who actually for the President, there is no recourse in American law. If electors decide to turn “faithless,” and vote for someone other than the people in their state have, again, there is no recourse under American law. "NONE!" ~ All the music in this video is by WHITE BAT AUDIO #Tweetthis