So....let's say it. American democracy is a farce. It's BEEN a farce. It's the only way I can explain all that I've seen over the past few months, and really, over the past 10 years. And I've really wondered if maybe if Hillary would have won in 2016 if this outcome was inevitable, and quite frankly, it was.
What is triggering this? Watching the democrats be so useless on Trump. They're full on folding. They're just saying "welp, Trump won the realignment, it's his world now, let's cave to him on everything." A lot of people are pissed off about Musk plundering the US government and its agencies for "inefficiencies" and honestly, it's a popular issue for the left. Almost no one, including a lot of Trumpers, like Musk and his actions. What's the democrats' response? Well, we can't bash all billionaires. Let's not go after people for their wealth. No, we SHOULD go after people for their wealth. We are literally in a second gilded age and the robber barons are all lining up behind Trump to plunder the Treasury and other departments and reshape the country in their image, whether we like it or not. We need some big D FDR energy in here were he goes after them and "welcomes their hatred."
But no, they cave to them. Why? Because they're owned by the billionaires too. Our entire democracy is subverted by the ultra wealthy. The whole strong republicans and weak democrats thing isn't a coincidence, it's literally what the billionaires want. Both parties are beholden to campaign contributions with their funding drying up the second they cross the wrong people, so the right brazenly just gives the billionaires whatever they want, including unprecedented access to the treasury department, and then the left just ends up being tone deaf, ignoring what the public wants, and then cozying up to the billionaires too.
And this is why in every election they offer the same bitter choice. Vote for them, even though they'll do F all for you, because their party is controlled by the billionaires, or cave and let the billionaires get what they want directly. Seriously, this is a recipe for slow walking to fascism as we are. Every election is just a catastrophe to be avoided by going democrat, and every failure to vote democrat just ratchet effects the entire overton window to the right. It didnt matter if clinton won in 2016, it would've been a stay of execution for 4 years before they tried to ram more stuff through in 2020. And then in 2024. We'd inevitably end up in the same place, because the right has been this insane since 2010, and has been trying to push things this way since the 1960s, and the left's job is just to be competent but useless. Do just a good enough job to manage the ship of state, but never push left, only enable the right.
And we're where we are today because of it.
And now in an age of Trump, it feels like they're just rolling over. Again, it's like they're just acknowledging that trump is the great realigner of our time and oh well we can't fight, we can only surrender. FIGHT. Heck, the fact that they haven't been fighting is why we got to this point in the first place.
Seriously, had we run bernie in 2016, im confident that's the only outcome where none of the nightmare that has happened since would have happened. He would have been the realigner. The energy would've been on the left. And the GOP would've died as we knew it. We were so close, but the democrats F-ed it up. Why? because they're paid to lose. They're the wrestler who is there only to let the star of the show win. They show up, talk a big game, but it's all a show, it's all an act, and they roll over and let the other guy win, because that's where the money is. Get it?
That's American politics. I've been fearing things getting worse because of Trump turning us fascist, but honestly? In retrospect, this kind of takeover in inevitable. Because the billionaires run the show and the politicians are just there like the wrestlers to talk a big game, but then let the correct outcome that the people paying for the whole show want. Our democracy is a farce, our nation is corrupted to the core, and it seems like no one is there to save us. And now the billionaires have free reign, while Trump just lets them do whatever he wants, because he himself is a puppet, and a dangerous one at that. But he was allowed to win again and is playing ball, so yeah. Our rights are gonna be shredded, our living standards eroded, and the billionaires enriched, while the democrats look on and tell us that if only we cared more about underprivileged groups and voted for them that none of this would have happened.
But without an electoral mandate, they're never gonna win more than twice in a row. because no one likes them. You only get that kind of energy during realignments when the energy is on their side, and once again, paid to lose. If they win, meh, they win, and nothing happens. If they lose, the billionaire agenda goes forward. Give things enough time and things were always going to get this bad. They're just shredding any pretense of democracy we ever had at this point. But they don't care. They just wanna go back to like the gilded age of feudalism or whatever when they were in charge, everyone knew they were in charge, and they could just openly buy out the system.
Government, especially in the west over the past thousand or more years, but also probably universally everywhere, has always been this. You got the leaders, you got their wealthy buddies who enjoyed special privileges, and everyone else is just a serf and a nobody who exists as the leisure of this privileged class. We had it like this in the middle ages. It only changed to be more implicit as we shifted to democracy/capitalism, we had a temporary reprieve as the workers organized and pushed back a century ago, and now since the 1970s and 1980s we've been slow walking it back to the way things were. And now we're basically here.
Like, I hate to be doomer, but this is where I'm at with this crap right now. It's like what George Carlin said, we have owners, they own you, they own everything. They control every aspect of your life. And they want to make sure the masses remain too stupid to figure out that they're getting screwed in the first place. Work your lives away, retire when too old, and then die. That's life in this system. And at this rate, we might not even retire...
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