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America’s House of Cards is Crumbling
What you need to do while we still have time.
Trump is going to collapse the U.S. economy. That much is inevitable. The only question is whether it’s a slow, agonizing death or a catastrophic implosion. Either way, climate change is waiting in the wings, ready to finish the job — mop-up duty for a system that was already stretched to the breaking point.
For years, we’ve been told to “trust the process,” to believe in the resilience of the American economy, to assume that democracy would hold firm. Well, look around. The only process in play now is a controlled demolition, and the people holding the detonator are laughing all the way to the bank.
Trump’s policies are not just bad; they’re designed to be bad. His economic strategy? A bloated, unsustainable mix of crony capitalism, reckless deregulation, and deficit-exploding tax cuts for billionaires. His environmental policy? Burn everything down for short-term profit and let the rest of us suffocate in the fumes. We’re not just facing economic collapse — we’re facing societal collapse, an unraveling of everything we assumed was stable.
And it’s not just him. It’s the entire machine. Corporate boards, hedge fund managers, fossil fuel executives — they don’t care if the ship sinks, because they’ve already got lifeboats…
