Brilliant framing of the capitulation problem. What gets me is how these elites seem totaly fine with burning down the institutions that actually made thier wealth possible in the first place. I've had a similar shift from pragmatist to someone who thinks we need structural change, not just policy tweaks. The backlash cycle is real and exhausting.
About that 1% vs. the rest of us. If only. Republicans have long relied on the millions willing to vote against their interests. Just because they think Dems and libs are icky and they never bother to think things through.
Then Trump came along and they got entertainment value into the bargain. Voting was never so much fun.
I am not sure that I buy into the lame duck presidency.
Steve Bannon said that they are working on a way for Trump to stay in power (as opposed to getting re elected)
And if per chance he does leave, like on a Gurney, there are too many people at risk of going to prison, if the Dems took over the government (and big IF), and if they had the cajones (which I doubt).
All of the power in the country, from control of the media, AI, the internet to finance are behind the regime, not Trump specifically, but the regime.
Vance is 'owned" by Thiel. Thiel owns Palantir, a system that has in it's data base, personal info on every American.
I've been watching this develop all my adult life, since at least the beginning of the Reagan administration -- which itself was a backlash to the civil rights and women's rights advances of the 1960s and '70s, and to the New Deal -- and I'm feeling more than a little jaded. Are we finally willing to recognize that democracy and capitalism are not Siamese twins, joined at hip or head or whatever, but that democracy *has* to keep capitalism in check in order to survive? That if it doesn't, capitalism will eat democracy alive, as it's been trying hard to do since the Reagan years? This didn't start with Trump. Trump is the endgame. If "we the people" had been halfway awake, maybe Trump wouldn't have happened. But Trump, this deteriorating incompetent, did happen and plenty of USians are still fine with it. Here's hoping we can deal with the consequences and maybe even learn from them.
Brilliant framing of the capitulation problem. What gets me is how these elites seem totaly fine with burning down the institutions that actually made thier wealth possible in the first place. I've had a similar shift from pragmatist to someone who thinks we need structural change, not just policy tweaks. The backlash cycle is real and exhausting.
About that 1% vs. the rest of us. If only. Republicans have long relied on the millions willing to vote against their interests. Just because they think Dems and libs are icky and they never bother to think things through.
Then Trump came along and they got entertainment value into the bargain. Voting was never so much fun.
I am not sure that I buy into the lame duck presidency.
Steve Bannon said that they are working on a way for Trump to stay in power (as opposed to getting re elected)
And if per chance he does leave, like on a Gurney, there are too many people at risk of going to prison, if the Dems took over the government (and big IF), and if they had the cajones (which I doubt).
All of the power in the country, from control of the media, AI, the internet to finance are behind the regime, not Trump specifically, but the regime.
Vance is 'owned" by Thiel. Thiel owns Palantir, a system that has in it's data base, personal info on every American.
I've been watching this develop all my adult life, since at least the beginning of the Reagan administration -- which itself was a backlash to the civil rights and women's rights advances of the 1960s and '70s, and to the New Deal -- and I'm feeling more than a little jaded. Are we finally willing to recognize that democracy and capitalism are not Siamese twins, joined at hip or head or whatever, but that democracy *has* to keep capitalism in check in order to survive? That if it doesn't, capitalism will eat democracy alive, as it's been trying hard to do since the Reagan years? This didn't start with Trump. Trump is the endgame. If "we the people" had been halfway awake, maybe Trump wouldn't have happened. But Trump, this deteriorating incompetent, did happen and plenty of USians are still fine with it. Here's hoping we can deal with the consequences and maybe even learn from them.
Well said