eat up hungee boy on Nostr: coming back to this, the thing that's so remarkable as a piece of rhetoric with this ...

coming back to this, the thing that's so remarkable as a piece of rhetoric with this speech is the way Petro effortlessly connects so many seemingly unrelated crises: racism, the opioid epidemic in North America, the cocaine cartels in Colombia, the genocide in Gaza, the urgent need to decarbonize, the Trump administrations denial of science, the failures of neoliberalism, the imperial metropole's hypocrisy and empty promises, the need for economic planning, the hollowness of finance capital, the need for new global governance structures, and that's not even all of it

just as a piece of rhetoric Petro has written one of the single most powerful arguments I've ever read in favor of socialism and internationalism