When it finally came to America, the virus seeped into the fault lines created by America’s pathologies. The country had changed from being an ongoing project to improve democratic society and live humanistic ideals to being a framework for fostering corporate profit. Politicians declared their intentions all the time: America should be run like a business and led by a businessman. And so a program of starving the nation of public goods while showering private interests with dollars entrenched itself until it seemed as if America had always been that way and the new version of capitalism came
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