> Even under an ideal situation where Trump authoritarianism is conquered and some sort of sensible alternative takes office, restoring oversight of companies like Comcast and AT&T — both bone-grafted to our domestic surveillance networks — is never going to be a priority in a Congress that’s now too corrupt to function, under a broken court system that treats corporate power as an unimpeachable deity.
Well, that's not the ideal situation. The ideal situation is a wholesale countervailing takeover of power that destroys the broken congress and courts, replaces them with a genuinely responsive government, conducts a large-scale seizure of the assets of the entities and individuals who have profited from this debacle, throws many of them in jail for decades if not life, and then begins to use those assets to rebuild things on a more equitable footing. Now that's less likely than the scenario described in the quote, but the scenario described in the quote is far from "ideal".
Well, that's not the ideal situation. The ideal situation is a wholesale countervailing takeover of power that destroys the broken congress and courts, replaces them with a genuinely responsive government, conducts a large-scale seizure of the assets of the entities and individuals who have profited from this debacle, throws many of them in jail for decades if not life, and then begins to use those assets to rebuild things on a more equitable footing. Now that's less likely than the scenario described in the quote, but the scenario described in the quote is far from "ideal".