The Self-Destruction of the US: The Only Way Out is Through a Revolution.

America. The land of dreams. Crashing. Burning. Dying.

George Floyd’s disturbingly haunting unjust death was only the very tip of the iceberg that has been growing bigger and colder in the recent decades.

The orthodoxy of globalization and centralization has for too long benefited the rich at the expense of the poor (169 billionaires ‘too poor’ to make the Forbes list of the 400 Richest Americans), the unaffordable medical care is literally killing people (around 27m people — 10 per cent of the non-elderly US population — have no insurance at all and are living on the edge), the gun violence (by the end of 2019, there were 417 mass shootings in the U.S., according to data from the non-profit Gun Violence Archive (GVA), which tracks every mass shooting in the country. Thirty-one of those shootings were mass murders.), the police brutality resulting in 1,004 fatal shootings in 2019 and the immigration system crying for a reform.

Combine all of that with the recent staggering unemployment rates brought by the Coronavirus pandemic (40 million Americans have reportedly claimed unemployment benefits so far, with the number to grow even higher). Wonder why people are so angry? Wonder why they are vandalizing stores and looting all over the American land? What else is left for…