So...with the second inauguration of donald trump, the country is not in a good state. I've been reflecting on it and I'm kind of realizing how screwed we might be.
First, there's Donald Trump himself. I'm not kidding when I say he's American Hitler at this point. He really is, and he's already trying to break every check and balance in his way. He's trying to do what only the constitution can do via executive order, and while so far the checks and balances seem to be holding, uh...given both congress and the courts are controlled by republicans, we are on thin ice.
The democrats, well, they're nowhere to be found. We should be breaking out the mitch mcconnell playbook, but they seem to be rolling over for trump, doing things like doing a press conference like a week after we pardoned the January 6thers. Pathetic. As Kyle Kulinski has been stating on his channel, it looks like they're rolling over, acting like we're now in the "trump era" the way we were in the FDR and Reagan era. THAT is a VERY bad sign. When the opposition decides to align themselves with the opposition and stops fighting, that is often the realignment being sealed. The GOP won. We lost. And the democrats just seem to be surrendering. This is now the Trump era.
But beyond that, there's yet ANOTHER problem that we havent been touching on. And that is who is pulling the strings behind Trump. It was pretty noticeable that those in the front row of Trump's inauguration were actually...the robber barons. All the biggest billionaires. I've heard it said that this weird plan to invade Greenland might be being pushed by billionaire Peter Thiel. Heck, most of Trump's agenda is directly being guided by billionaires. The austerity, the tax breaks, all of it are just to enrich some oligarchic robber barons.
You know, I've been working on a book expanding my political philosophy. This isn't really any surprise, and when I really lay out the argument, it seems clear that the core way the world is as it is is because of the will of the ultra elites. We work our lives away because the rich want us to. They dont want us to wake up and realize that they're the ones making our lives miserable. They want us to be good little wage slaves. When I first approached the topic, I thought it was just christianity. And I have no doubt, it is, but the wealthy have always been the one pulling the strings, and they're the ones who impose this right wing hellscape onto us.
I've read articles sent to me by friends in which the wealthy appear to believe they are untouchable. That they mock us behind closed doors. Because they're part of the elites and we're not. They look down their noses at everyone else and laugh at us for not being them. They know that climate change is screwing the planet, and they dont care. Enjoy society while it lasts, it doesn't matter what comes after, they'll be dead.
I've seen a video today about how the biggest corporations have more wealth, and functionally more power, than most nation states. We are literally in a world run by this ultra rich who dont give a crap about any of us, and who basically enslave us for profit, and trash our planet, while they fricking control the world. It is no secret by this point that US foreign policy has done the will of these corporations for decades, and will actively intervene in and overthrow any government that steps out of line.
Like, corporations are the fourth branch of government, and they have no checks and balances. If anything, in the US we just gave them all the power with citizen's united. Unlimited campaign contributions, and within 6 years, our political system was broken, if it was ever not broken. Since 2016, we've had the republicans controlled by donald trump, and the billionaires clearly control trump and are ramming through radical right wing agendas whether we want it or not. The democrats? Dependent on campaign contributions, and been running to the right ever since trying to appease this billionaire class. Like, really, them rolling over and being so useless isn't a mistake. It's literally weaponized incompetence, or controlled opposition.
Our democracy is a farce. It's been corrupted by big money. We basically live in the billionaires' world now, and the mask is basically slipping off. I mean, in all fairness, some would say this has always been what capitalism is in the west. Even FDR compromised with this wealthy establishment class. And now they're rolling everything back, and we find ourselves in this new gilded age, where the billionaires run everything and F all of us. We are their slaves. They are ruining the planet, and our lives for profit, and laughing the whole time.
Everything feels so hopeless. It's like 2024 was this I HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND I AM FREE energy. And it's not just the robber barons. It's also THE FRICKING NAZIS. Like what the ####, America?! Like, in retrospect, we had this latent nazsm here the whole time. Ya know, the south, the confederates. I was thinking of that one guy whose videos I watched 10 years ago who used to sound so progressive and how somewhere he just went full rightoid. I read the article i wrote about him recently and how he was a progressive because of so called "civic nationalism." I also hear the trumpers say we need this "civic nationalism" myself. And let's call it what it is, nazism. This weird nationalist thing where we all serve the fatherland or whatever. Like what the hell people. Didn't you learn history growing up? Don't answer that, if you're from the south, of course you didn't. You did NOT learn the same history we yankees did. But yeah. We got people fricking doing seig heils OPENLY NOW. And speaking of that, Elon Musk did the same trajectory as that guy.
There was a time when Elon Musk was just a goofy tech nerd and I actually kinda respected him. 10 years ago, he was talking about robots automatic the jobs and UBI. Now he's doing fricking seig heils and it's coming out that he may have held these beliefs all along. Holy crap, this modern political environment is wild.
I really hope that this isn't the realignment itself. If it is, we are ####ed. I really hope this is just some weird end of the previous alignment thing where in the next election cycle or two, something snaps and the people push HARD in the other direction. Again, if not, we're screwed. Idk how else to say it. We are SCREWED.
I hate to be a bummer. When I left christianity, despite realizing how messed up the world was, I had faith that if only we left religion, came together, and realized what mess we were in, we could improve things. At one point of time, I really thought the biggest problem with this country was actually ignorance. It still is, in a sense. But it's becoming increasingly apparent that no, the world is the way it is because powerful forces want it to be the way it is, and we're powerless to stop it. So, for people like me, it's just...the mask is off, I realize how screwed we are, and we really can't do anything about it. This sucks. I wish I could be more optimistic than this. But really, this SUCKS.
And before any leftist thinks Im radicalizing, um, you do realize i can understand how bad things are, without advocating for your solutions, right? Socialism isn't gonna solve crap. And anywhere it's been tried, it just makes the situation worse. So no, communism isn't the answer. We just need like, our institutions to actually be democratic. Our economy to actually respect freedom. The fact is, the theory behind our institutions are noble, and are worth having. It's just that they've been massively corrupted by several key design flaws. We dont need literal communism to fix that.
Just throwing that out there since leftists think the second you realize the above about the world, that you're magically gonna become one of them. No, I'm not. My views are my views, I'm just kinda realizing how bad things are getting with the direction we're going in.
Bad things should be bad, and we should reject them. Good things should be accepted. How screwed are we that it's like everything that is evil, we are embracing as a society? What the ####, people...
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