The consequences: Never before has a former president who is as flawed a candidate as Trump — an individual some have called cognitively challenged and psychologically unstable and who believes in nothing other than himself, his appetites, his instincts and his autocratic ambitions — evidenced, according to major polls, a 50% chance of reelection.
Never before has such an individual commandeered a major American political party, garnered the loyalty of its most radical and/or opportunistic power-players, and forced its moderates to choose between cowardly silence or the termination of their political careers.
Never before could such an individual, if reelected, stand so thoroughly empowered to reject experienced advisors who are faithful to the Constitution — reject “the adults in the room” who might rein in his most authoritarian impulses — and instead appoint loyalists who will do his bidding. In addition those loyalists will enact the fusion of executive-branch dominance, faux-libertarianism and Christian nationalism mapped out in Project 2025.
Never before would such an individual, if reelected, be so thoroughly insulated against criminal indictment and prosecution — all due to the wide-ranging and much criticized presidential-immunity decision rendered by six conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
For those of you who like to use the bad faith argument that Democrats fear monger every 4 years. THIS IS NOT NORMAL AND HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTRY.
VOTE! Our lives literally depend on it!
Bruh, that’s called fascism. Somebody has to pay to bus the proud boys around. That somebody is the same 1% that own everything. They’re, like they’ve always done, hedging their bets so that they stay on the top if or when comes regime change.
A descent into techno-fuedalism, or modern fascism, then is a descent that they think they can control. Or it’s a safer bet for them than rolling the dice on another French revolution - because they’ve hoarded too much, and change is coming, like it or not. It’s entirely explained by survivalist dynamics.
There’s a certain amount of delulu to the bougie class. They’ve accepted prosperity gospel as unalienable. Further, the mental gymnastics necessary to justify their existence are, in reality, the only work they need to do, so they’re Olympians at this shit by now. They feel they’re better, smarter, genetically (which explains away hereditary. Simple answers are better than legal explanations after all. Truthiness vs facts. Emotional facts vs objective analysis), culturally, fundamentally, than us. We are trogs to them, not to be concerned with, not to let our plights stain the purity of their thoughts. We are sheep to be corralled and controlled, who’s labor is to be exploited and value extracted.
Wealth, inequality, necessitates dehumanization. Brain scans have shown that the prefrontal cortex, responsible for higher complex thinking (or the part of the brain aware of itself), is used less amongst the rich. And life follows a basic rule - use it or lose it. So we see brain devolution, it atrophies, rusts. The problem with this, is that pro-social, empathic emotion and behaviour - the very things that allowed humanity to grow past the savannah into civilization, and then ti hild civilization together - are all found rooted, not in our lizard brain, but in our prefrontal.
Wealth, I mean this literally, causes mental retardation. The cold capitalist - Ebenezer Scrooge or whomever - is obviously far removed from the messiah’s we’ve exalted throughout the ages.
Has wealth allowed Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon fuckface or Android Zuckerberg to become more like Christ, Buddha, prophet whomever? No. Obviously. It’s antithetical spiritual, emotional growth. Toxic to it. Famously, Buddha fled from his wealth to live as an aesthete, embracing poverty. Even Christ commanded wealth be given away as conditional to admittance to heaven - soukdnt you know it, that part of the Bible is generally glossed over and ignored , just like the holy instructions to induce miscarriage, also known as, abortion.
The arrogance of the parasitic class is such that they believe they can manipulate outcomes of an induced civil war. Almost never, they all of history, has an internal conflict been won by any of the starting agitators, or defenders. It is, in other words, impossible to predict who will come out on top at the beginning, because by the end, there will be a whole different skate if players. The rich think their money will insolate them from the “troubles”, which is delulu².
When the substation has been bombed for the 3rd time and powers out, and transformers are a decade out to replace (they’re 1-2 years out NOW), so powers NOT coming back - the community on the hill running generators is now the only target. The useful idiots aren’t going to defend. The security guards - with family out in the dark - are as likely to turn as defend, and surrounded and under fire - a quick bullhorn “keep half of what you kill” would unleash the covetous towards cannibalism. Greed will always be it’s own downfall.
If society is so ill that things need to heat up, that it needs a fever to kill the infection we either remember that we are all in this together (as our innate internal sense of fairness and justice exemplify) or we will simply be setting up the next act to replay the same story as we’re currently fighting. There’s no alternative. We will continue to build up and destroy ourselves until we’re extinct or until we learn the lesson. Same on the macro as it is on the micro.