Geopolitics

Honestly, it's hard to believe. Since I started paying attention to politics I've been progressively more and more disgusted by what many other Americans are willing to accept and even champion. Clearly, people have to see what is happening and object to it!? Nope.

Trump absolutely slammed the accelerator on this disgust. Every goddamn, motherfucking week that has gone by, there has been some crazy fucking bullshit that nudges some absurdly resilient speck of my brain matter and makes me think "Alright, seriously, this has to be the breaking point. People will finally start to abandon the GOP en masse..." but it's a delusion. It doesn't happen. I don't know how the speck has somehow not become completely desensitized to it.

The fascists have finally built something capable of sustaining the falsehoods. The opposition is happy to make bank campaigning as the opposition party. Enough judges are willing to side with the powerful, with utter fucking disregard for precedent or the law. The media and the universities are afraid to challenge them. The influencers know they can get paid by billionaires to feed their garbage to the masses, and the masses will thank them and tip them for their grifts. Technology can mass produce convincing enough slop that nothing is real - it takes infinitely more effort to refute it than it does to create it. Anything real can just as easily be accused of being slop - it takes infinitely more effort to prove its truth than to accuse.

same shit they've been saying since 2016

I like Robert Reich and his positions, but I honestly have no idea where he and others like him are getting their unflappable faith in people. My conclusion after the past decade is that we simply got SUPREMELY lucky for the past few decades, and the natural state of humanity is pigheaded, self-interested, insufferable bastard behavior.

Imo the above mentioned US trends, whilst sometimes to a lesser degree, are also true in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and probably many if not all other countries.

World-wide, the "middle-class" has been eroded, and while the poor are less poor, the superrich have become incredibly rich. With the economic erosion of the middle-class, their political power has equally been diminished, and so have the very democratic institutions who were created the protect all people " equally" under the law.

Lmfao.

Those darn Republicans! Who will stop them?!? This is the last election we'll ever have!

Those darn Democrats! Who will stop them?!? This is the last election we'll ever have!

They eat at the same table. They won't bite the hands that feeds them. The hand that feeds them is not you.

Revenge of the Woke