Capitalism must survive

Because if capitalism dies, then he’s dead.

And what will widowed America inherit? McDonald’s Monopoly money? Debt. And a deficit, and devilment and decline. Loot boxes. A surveillance state. Data centers to inform (the cameras, not the inheritor).

And what’s left for us? We, the people, the children of God and America and Capitalism. The bloated corpse of a system that kept enough of us mollified enough at our margins that we aren’t directly at each other’s throats. We, the people, all firmly rooted in our margins. Collective action comfortably out-of-reach. The other margin being too marginal, of course.

And who will read the eulogy? Maybe a Kardashian/Jenner is suited.

At the repast, it’ll come out he was cheating. The twin bastards, Oligarchy and Plutocracy, crash the function.

And in a corner, a whisperer wonders, will America ever remarry?

Does history have anything to say about how to best oppress a people, when it’s not just crushing economic depression?