The Juggernaut: Why Power Always Wins… Until It Doesn’t
It was 2011, and I was working as a mobile veterinarian in Oregon. Occupy Wall Street had erupted, and soon Occupy Portland followed. The excitement was palpable in every liberal-minded home I visited. Conversations buzzed with hope: finally, the time had come. The great machine of corporate greed was cracking. Change was not only possible—it felt inevitable. That was then. Now it’s 2025. Corporations are thriving—better than ever. They have not only survived; they have reshaped the political landscape to suit themselves even more comfortably. -Agencies once created to protect the environment now step gingerly around polluters. -"Drill, baby, drill" is back in fashion—cheered on by people who also anoint Elon Musk as their messiah. -Sales of electric vehicles climb steadily in deep-red states; how strange is this world So the question becomes unavoidable: Why? Why, after so many revolutions, movements, protests, and crises, does power not only endure—but thrive? T...