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Trump and co just successfully revolted and are now attempting to institute their ideological vision
Did you account for it being someone else’s revolution?
It's less of a revolution than it seems to be. Both parties have been doing awful things for a long time, Trump is just louder about it and more flagrant in his defiance of the other branches of government.
But it's not "Trump is a fascist, unlike any president before him." Trump is a fascist, but there have plenty of fascistic elements in the US goverment all along, and there have been other presidents like Trump in US history.
The system really is working exactly as intended.
Trump and co. are merely impatient oligarchs that feel that they now have the technological and propaganda controls fine tuned enough to reduce the chances of blowback ever reaching them as they ramp up the extraction of value from the rest of us.
For the other lot were doing this apace too but most of the worst of their efforts were hidden in the global south.
My point is that we need to recognize that Fascism is already here and that we need to accept that democracy has failed us here. We need to fight for a better world, we can't just vote our way out of this.
Clapping our hands and saying "I do believe in Democracy!" won't bring it back.
I know it’s boring but we very likely will just vote our way out of this
This is really not the first Trump type president in American history so I’m not sure why we’re all assuming it all ends here
Trump isn't the problem, the problem is twofold - firstly, Trump won the popular vote, meaning that at least half of active voters voted for a totally incompetent fascist. This suggests a slightly more competent fascist would be even more successful.
The second problem is that the system that makes fascism inevitable will remain in place and no amount of voting will ever dismantle that system, because the powerful & wealthy ruling class work very hard to ensure the system that keeps them wealthy & powerful stays that way.
The only way to change the system is to dismantle it completely.