#B) us imperialism is and always has run through the interests of mega corporations that may not be *officla* government actors

[rotzaprachim]

the thing about Hawai’i politics is that. You absolutely need to criticize the local government. But you also need to stand the economic and political politics of living in a place where the local government doesn’t have an iota of the power of the mega corporations like Hilton and Sheraton that run mega resorts here, nor the billionaires like mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, or Jeff bezos that run second homes here or have quasi-feudal estates or exert far far more power than the relatively progressive county and state governments

like. You have to clock what it is that a man worth over 100 billion dollars purchased 98% of an island. What that’s like. What power does a city councilman who represents that island in a council have over a man worth over 100 billion who both owns the land people live on AND the hotels they work at

#A) HI runs and is far more like a separate nation than another U.S. state even if under mainland colonial control #B) us imperialism is and always has run through the interests of mega corporations that may not be *officla* government actors #So so so many issues boil into the market forces in a Neo imperial world in a place with a long history of colonialism #schools struggle to keep teachers and local businesses struggle to keep employees because the wages don’t match the insane cost of living #Local agriculture and food industries struggle because the cost of supplies and cost of living for farmers #Makes their produce more expensive than most people can afford so we have to buy from Walmart #Young people and families keep leaving and there’s increasingly severe labour shortages for basically ever job in terms of #Everything from minimum wage local jobs to local doctors teachers and lawyers #So every aspect of local society struggles to keep going #And all those deficits make hi a harder and harder place to live #There’s market forces that are just. Beyond us all #also the most powerful gov actor by far is the national military and you think city council has more control than the pacific fleet? PFFFF