and when that capacity for change is, becomes calcified as it has become in our corporate state, then you redirect. when you redirect all of the wealth and the systems of power to a cabal -- in this case a corporate cabal -- you leave behind the majority of your population to fester and to express in very self-destructive ways the pathologies that i write about in this book. and, you know, what i fear is that this time around when capitalism goes down, we won't have the progressive party, the old cio, an independent press, labor unions, you know, wobblies. we won't have any of that. and, you know, in the 1930s europe went one way, italy, germany, spain, and we went another. and i just see especially with the rhetoric coming out of the white house and the rise of these trump mini-mes in places like florida, you know, and the transformation of the republican party into a kind of party built around a personality cult. i worry that we will swing -- we have the potential to swing to a kind of corporate-backed, christianized fascism. >> on that hopeful note -- [laughter] [applause] thank yo