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I’d strongly recommend the book Confessions of an Economic Hitman, to showcase how powerful corporations and institutions ‘lobby’ politicians and force through legislation in their favour, without care for future impact. Why is it relevant? Because that’s what’s happening now: powerful (read- rich) entities have decided that their best bet to secure political power in the US is to cater to religious conservatives and previously disenfranchised (for good reason) groups, such as racists.
They’ve been chasing after Roe v Wade at the behest of their anti-abortion sponsors for 2.5 generations, and now they’ve delivered so they’ll get even more support.
Trigger warning- discrimination.
Want to know what’s next? IMO: LGBTQI+, starting backwards. Making them taboo in public discourse and education, erasing IQT as concepts, eventually removing equality protections for BGL, potentially even outlawing them.
Women’s rights and people rights to decide on their private sexual lives are going to be a continued battleground because religious fruitcakes are obsessed with controlling what other people do sexually.
And all of this to get the population divided and unable to focus on the policies and legislation that rob them blind and increasingly strip their freedoms.