Source: CounterPunch
by Sasha Davis
“The government may be getting completely out of the business of protecting human well-being (by shredding the social safety net, decimating public education, slashing health care access and research, transferring more wealth to the ultra-rich, and supercharging its apparatuses of police surveillance and repression), but let’s face it, the state was only tangentially interested in human well-being before this year. The primary functions of this government have long been to facilitate the ability of capitalist firms to accumulate profits and to protect the unequal property relations of the class of people who set it up (i.e. not you).” (09/05/25)