053: Grifters by MDK

The word “grifter” seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue today. On the left, grifters are identified and called out with ever-increasing paranoia. On the right, the term is thrown around with almost equal ease. The grifter is a threat to every movement; he lurks in every shadow. Even the most honest and laudable political causes are seemingly powerless in the face of the grifter’s corrupting influence. And so accusations of “grifting” fly around in contemporary America with a frantic energy reminiscent of an earlier era of Soviet folk denunciations. The “grifter” has become modern America’s equivalent of the “wrecker” or “capitalist spy.”

Planet of the Grifters by Malcom Kyeyune.

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