rather than build a political system that by definition would democratize institutional care, conservatives chose again and again to live in a dead world, one that was programmed only to amplify its deadness. It seemed to me that their dogma could be summarized like this: If we’re all subject to planetary catastrophe, if we experience the same intensity of existential fragility as the downtrodden, let us descend into madness and disaster, but we will govern the pace! What a brutal legacy to be a recipient of by virtue of geographic fate, I thought. It’s a miracle anyone escapes it.
