"The idiots only know one word: 'more'.... Trump is the face of our collective idiocy.... The crisis we face is the result of a four-decade-long, slow-motion corporate coup d'etat that has left corporations and the war machine omnipotent, turned our electoral system into legalized bribery, and elevated public figures who master the arts of entertainment and artifice. Trump is the symptom. He is not the disease."
I highly recommend the whole lecture. The blistering diagnosis is important to hear, especially as we have focused so much attention on the idiot-in-chief. But even more important is the call to a faith, albeit a "harsh and dreadful" faith, in the last third of the talk:
"No act of rebellion, however futile it appears in the moment, is wasted.... Any act of rebellion no matter how few people show up or how heavily it is censored chips away at the corporate state.... The life of faith, and we are called to faith, is a life of confrontation.... Accept sorrow for who cannot be profoundly sorrowful at the state of our nation, the world, what we are doing to our planet. But know that in resistance, there is a balm that leads to wisdom and, if not joy, a strange transcendent happiness."
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