What if this is the best part of your life?

Dan Canon
5 min readMar 22, 2024

Let’s explore a difficult question together.

Before I tell you what it is, we need to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: If you’re reading this in the United States, your material circumstances are likely to get much worse in coming years. Even if the far right suffers crippling defeats at the ballot box, inflation stops dead in its tracks, and Donald Trump ends up in prison for the rest of his miserable life, we are probably still stuck on an irreversible slow boat to Hell. This isn’t just a cynical academic sharing vibes. Organizations and people who…

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Dan Canon

Civil rights lawyer, law professor, and high school dropout. Writes about the Midwest, class struggle, and the untold horrors of the legal system.