A Devastating Week for This Country

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A Devastating Week for This Country
Thoughts on a flooded country, a theocratic state, and a creaking democracy
by David Dayen
September 3, 2021


It says something about the week we’ve just had that the surging disease killing around 1,000 Americans every day is a relatively minor story.

In one of the most disingenuous rulings in litigation history, the Supreme Court, without holding a hearing, effectively ended a half-century of legal abortion in the United States. The remaining shards of a Gulf Coast hurricane reached the populous Northeast and caused unprecedented flash floods and tornadoes. The most villainous drug pushers and mass murderers in our nation’s history secured personal immunity for their crimes for a pittance of their ill-gained fortune.

That was Wednesday.

In matters still ongoing, there are blazes in the West that have been burning so long this summer it makes the “Springfield Tire Fire” joke from The Simpsons seem prescient. Evictions are spiking during an ongoing public health emergency as our inability to govern makes it difficult to deliver large outlays of rental assistance. Unemployment benefits for more than 7 million are also set to expire in a matter of days, which The Century Foundation estimates would cost the broader economy $5 billion a week, in addition to leaving these millions of long-term unemployed with practically no assistance.

Plus, the lesser Texas legislative effort in the news this week is a not-so-veiled attempt to suppress the vote in traditionally Democratic areas. And, oh yeah, Kevin McCarthy is out there threatening companies if they comply with subpoenas—a sneak preview of the Republican return to power and something called “governance.”

It’s enough to sap away at one’s optimism!

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https://prospect.org/politics/devastating-week-for-america-climate-court-creaking-democracy/

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1. We aren't suppose to notice COVID, nor Jan. 6, we are suppose to consume Biden attacks.