There are a lot of developments that led us here: the Iraq War, the 2008 financial crisis and our government’s failure to prosecute those responsible for it, the impunity of lawless elites, the hollowing out of entire economic sectors and geographic regions by private equity and corporate consolidation, the rank corruption unleashed by Citizens’ United, the unchecked growth of obscene inequality and concomitant rise of oligarchs, the socially destructive profit seeking of social media companies, and so on.