“Food deserts are not an inevitable consequence of poverty or low population density, and they didn’t [form] for no reason.” Guess who? Ronald Fucking Reagan! The government stopped enforcing price discrimination laws in the 80s & big chains thrived.
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It's funny to me (not funny haha, more like funny sob) that conservatism has delivered all the things we were told were bad about the Soviet bloc when I was a kid—one store to buy everything, a lack of substantive choices as a consumer, subscription and rental over ownership, endless faceless bureaucracy everywhere; but since it all happened in the name of capital its all totally fine, nothing to see here. I know I'm stating something very obvious, but it's chilling and no one seems to talk about it. Maybe because it's so dumb and obvious. Sorry.
Not dumb, and not obvious to enough people.
Everything terrible has roots in Reaganomics. That the descriptive "Reagan Republican" has been softened to something implying sane and reasonable when juxtaposed with Trumpism, rather than the mercenary war that it was/is waged upon those who are not rich, really grates upon my soul.
As I learned many years ago from The Boondocks, Ronald Reagan is the Devil.
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