A bullet that united Americans

Deny, Defend, and Depose. These are the tactics insurance companies use to deny life-saving healthcare to millions of Americans. And they were etched on the bullet used to assassinate the CEO of United Health, a healthcare insurance company and conglomerate. The assassin disappeared into Central Park and left a backpack stuffed with Monopoly money. New Yorkers are dancing in the street to celebrate. This is real life unfolding in Gotham right now. It is more noir than Batman comics.

But all of a sudden, everyone, left and right, men and women, white and minorities, gay and straight, old and young, everyone saw and understood what it meant. It is not immigrants, homosexuals, racial minorities, or transgendered teens who are denying people life-saving medications, and making their lives miserable. It is instead billionaires and their henchmen in business suits who are cynically denying surgery to squeeze another dollar for their bottom line, who are off-shoring jobs, who are hiking prices and depressing salaries, who are laughing at your inability to bootstrap yourself into a billionaire while working three part-time gigs.

Suddenly, “Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men.” became the backdrop music of many TikTok videos. Phrases like: “The CEO who was French Revolutioned,” “We are the 99%,” and “Class consciousness” start to emerge. The shock of…