> If you believe, as capitalists do, that the highest goal of government is to protect the ability of people to make money, you support this. It's true, and th

> If you believe, as capitalists do, that the highest goal of government is to protect the ability of people to make money, you support this. It's true, and the blatant mishandling of COVID throughout the pandemic (which hasn't functionally ended) by both political parties of capital is a great example. Step 1) Manufacture consent for COVID to be 'over,' which the CDC and both political parties were absolutely part of: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... Step 2) With a facade of 'democracy,' ask the people if they want COVID to be over: https://web.archive.org/web/20240802024326/https://docs.house.gov/meetings/VC/VC00/20220302/114453/HHRG-117-VC00-20220302-SD009.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20240802024326/https://docs.hous... Step 3) Meat grinder of capital interests intensifies, and everyday people pay the price It's 2025 and new people are acquiring debilitating Long COVID every day and don't even know it. Not because they're not vaccinated, but because vaccines never stopped endless transmission in the first place. Only an N95 can do that for whoever elects to wear one. Yet practically nobody knows this, including most doctors, as designed by capital interests. We could have used COVID as an opportunity to completely restructure society for the better, but instead we got the opposite thanks to capital interests running the show.