We Can Save Ourselves, But Only If

It Is Always Easier To Deny Reality Than To Allow Our Worldview To Be Shattered, A Fact That Was As True Of Die-hard Stalinists At The Height Of The Purges As It Is Of Libertarian Climate Change Deniers Today.

So If The Meaning Of The Trump Brand Is Being The Ultimate Boss Who Has The Power Because He's So Rich, The Way You Undermine That Brand Is By Making Him Look Like A Puppet, And By Showing That While He's Playing Gold And Admiring His Properties, It's Actually Other People Making The Key Decisions And He Doesn't Really Know What's Going On.

It Seems To Me That Our Problem Has A Lot Less To Do With The Mechanics Of Solar Power Than The Politics Of Human Power—specifically Whether There Can Be A Shift In Who Wields It, A Shift Away From Corporations And Toward Communities, Which In Turn Depends On Whether Or Not The Great Many People Who Are Getting A Rotten Deal Under Our Current System Can Build A Determined And Diverse Enough Social Force To Change The Balance Of Power.

Regardless Of The Overall State Of The Economy, There Is Now A Large Enough Elite Made Up Of New Multi-millionaires And Billionaires For Wall Street To See The Group As "superconsumers," Able To Carry Consumer Demand All On Their Own.

I'm Not Talking About Trump's Brand But Rather The Intimately Connected Brand Called "make America Great Again" That He Created To Make All These Promises To Working Americans - Is Intensely Vulnerable, If There Is Sustained Scrutiny Of The Kind We've Seen About Comey And Russia. He's Appointed Five Goldman Sachs Former Executives To His Cabinet, His Commerce Secretary Is Renegotiating Nafta To Make It Far Better For Corporations And Worse For Workers, And They're Talking About This Right Out In The Open... I Mean, How Much News Have You Seen About That?