The consumer is dead. The citizen is dead. The voter is dead.
The sooner everybody comes to terms with this, the further along we will be.
I started to make this point in a series of tweets about J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, and opposing transphobia. It came back to me when people started talking about boycotting Amazon (more? like a double boycott?) for being ready to kill USPS by splitting with it. Rather than restate the points, I’ll start just by quoting them: