Why are Americans so pissed about the economy when the macroeconomic data is decent? How are polluters trying to get you to pay to clean up their mess? Where is the country’s most corrupt government? When did we get within one congressional vote of a vastly better future? Who should never show their face in public but is now trying to once again protect the rich?
The answers to these questions and much more can be found below in today’s edition of Sirota’s Signals, a weekly dose of must-read stories, missed nuggets, and fun-but-worthwhile distractions from Lever founder David Sirota, exclusively for paid subscribers.
Loved reading this edition David, as always, the same way I ‘loved’ the blood sausages with my breakfasts while traveling through Ireland. Couldn’t have digested it without the soda bread (John Candy clip) and stout (Fleetwood Mac’s Chicago blues) though. The Lever along with all the other ‘alternate’ media I can access convinces me that I have been nothing but a traveler in the land of my birth, and never like citizen. The quickly killed campaign reform bill, 1970, enraged me the most because at that point I was struggling most to become a ‘civil’ participant of what I believed was unique ‘experiment’ in Democracy. And I really loved the proposed revisions to the CPI— I’ve tried to explain how utterly wrong our continuously manipulated understanding of ‘economy’ is completely devoid of social good and should be based on levels of social welfare instead of profit, but can’t get beyond the zombie myth behind every American’s mind, “Well, that’s socialism.” And bye bye to Mitch- hope he goes to coal miners heaven so he can enjoy the company of all the laborers he sent into hell every day, while ‘giving them a living’ - in the parlance of bosses everywhere!