grapes of wrath quote
No, PACs or think tanks or whoever buys a lot of the books then gives them away.
This bookstore thing you're seeing is probably the publisher paying for marketing. Stocking and shelf placement guarantees, etc. Essentially they pay to have the books displayed in major bookstores. It's not exclusive to the right, but it's more obvious.
The 'nothing ever happens' people have been quieter recently for sure
This supports my idea that every time a rich person gives me advice they should need to physically hand me cash for the entire time they're speaking.
Luckily the rate at which things worsen will never change and everything is very predictable and the experts are in charge.
"I don't know what's wrong with you young people, you think you just fell out of a coconut tree? The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living!"
"Emotional Labor" losing the work context meets this imo. Definitely very frustrating.
Sorta tangentially, many American suburban developments are arranged primarily to be as defensible as possible in a way that makes the people living there extremely paranoid. Suburbs often have one or two entrances / exits branching into one looping and some number of non-looping paths. As a result, there will almost never be anyone driving through the suburb without a deliberate reason to be there. Most often, it's because they live there. Neighbors will quickly recognize each other's cars and be able to identify each other's comings and goings. Seeing an unexpected car (or any person of color as many of these spaces are entirely white) will immediately raise questions on the neighborhood snitch app or text group. Also, neighbors are constantly spying on each other because the structure of suburbia highly encourages it. This type of suburban design was created explicitly because of and for the purpose of racist paranoia.
A guide would really help I think. I didn't know most of the stuff in just this post.