“You Can’t Help the Poor by Destroying the Rich.”
A response to Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw.
If nothing else, the past two years of this pandemic have been a mask off moment for a dying American empire. The past two years have revealed not just the glaring disparities between the rich and the poor, but just how little our elected officials and the corporate interests they serve care about human lives outside of their ability to do labor and create profit. Thousands of people are dying every single day alone in hospital rooms, drowning in their own fluids because even the most fundamental concept of data and science have been politicized. Every single day, thousands of people are dying because people in a position of power with a vested interest in preserving the status quo decided this deadly virus was nothing more than an inconvenience to their bottom line, and pushed a narrative that it was nothing to take seriously.
Along with the lives lost, the economic damage this pandemic has caused for the middle and lower classes is absolutely staggering, prompting heightened awareness and more conversations about income inequality that are long overdue. Of course, none other than Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw decided to spark a conversation of his own on Twitter, sharing an old quote from William Boetcker that reads:
