The Texas catastrophe and the case for socialism

A disaster of colossal dimensions continues to unfold in the US state of Texas. More than 14 million people are still without clean water—that is, more people than the populations of entire countries such as Portugal and Belgium.

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[“only the strong will survive” and the rest will “perish.”

“No one owes you [or] your family anything,” he declared, “nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this!”

Tim Boyd, the Republican mayor of Colorado City, Texas.]

While his income is supported by those he is addressing.

[The climate change-denying Texas Republicans, blinking in the global spotlight, are now flailing around with wild assertions that the crisis is actually the fault of renewable energy.]

We must change the narrative! Attack what they want to diminish our failures.