Cops spooked the depth of their perfidious conduct will be revealed; City spooked by thoughts of lawsuits; Civilian review boards will swing in the wind.
What blew me away was how Doctorow weaved together blistering social criticism with a firm understanding of the dumpster fire we call ‘mainstream economics’.
Yeah, with that sentence, I’m sold. Gonna read this after I finish Burn Book.
The meat of the matter is summed up nicely in the following paragraph:
Mr. Trump is at heart a billionaire doing favors for other billionaires by cutting their taxes and eliminating or not enforcing rules that protect the rest of us from asthma and cancer. During his four years in office, he managed to dismantle or degrade over 100 environmental rules, which brought real-world death and suffering. The medical journal The Lancet estimated that in the year 2019 alone these policies led to 22,000 excess deaths from heart disease, asthma and lung cancer, among other causes.
They are obviously of the “If-It-Ain’t-Broke-Don’t-Fix-It” people.
A once dominant group, they also age slowly, have the longest memories and loquaciously share them.
A fuckton of R&D dollars are circling the drain at this point.
Would wager it will earn a place next to the cube.