I think you nailed this analysis. The Drug War is such a massive elephant in the room, but I don’t think I’ve heard anyone from BLM or even in larger woke-circles call it by name. It would be like an evangelical preacher not pointing out satan as the purveyor of great evil. Evil exists, but we can’t talk about its main mechanism?

The data about the end of the gold standard is something I’ve been talking about for years. We completely untethered money creation from reality, and handed the keys to politicians. What, exactly, did we expect to happen? The fact that our monetary system didn’t immediately or since evaporate is a credit to the Atlas-like efforts of the mostly serious folks who have been at the Fed and the Treasury for the past 50 years — but they’ve been fighting a losing battle and of course, making massive mistakes with increasingly regularity.

No one talks about the very fabric of our economic system in a conversation that hinges on wealth and prosperity. A point I’ve been making (ineffectively) is that the police are not shooting black men: they’re shooting poor men. Once you look at poverty as the filter for police killings, the proportional disparities between races shrink.

I too have been butting up against the Critical theory problem. One thing to focus on is research that shows how certain types of engagement under the critical umbrella clearly do not help and may actually hinder the prosperity of marginalized groups. One study from Harvard revealed that the kind of corporate struggle sessions popularized by Robin DiAngelo (author of White Fragility) result in neutral or worse outcomes for minority hires. Critical theory only helps people like DiAngelo. It does nothing for the people it purports to be serving. https://hbr.org/2012/03/diversity-training-doesnt-work