The Architecture of Complicity
The betrayal of self and everyone else
One man doesn’t betray a nation. A system does. People who want a better world do, in the name of ignorance they aren’t aware will kill everyone.
The Republican Party had every opportunity to stop this. They had impeachment — twice. They had the 25th Amendment. They had the simple option of telling the truth. They chose power instead. Every time. Without exception.
Fox News built the stage. Social media and its evil algorithms of profiteering handed out the tickets. Billionaires learned that rage drives engagement, and engagement drives revenue, and revenue is the only god any of these platforms actually worship. Ask Bezos or Musk or any of the several hundred others.
The courts that should have held the line got stacked. The Congress that should have checked the power rolled over. The institutions that were built to prevent exactly this kind o…
