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Looking at Russia, I can approximate that in next 20 years more yong people will participate in politics and get elected.
Boy I hope so
This is end stage capitalism, it’s functioning as intended.
When did we enter end stage capitalism?
It was a process. Reagan’s election in 1980 was a big step.
From that moment forward, we were on the express train to capital-driven fascism.
The CIA extrajudicial detention and torture program triggered my are we the baddies? moment, and yet somehow the US publice still kept voting for the let’s-go-back-to-feudal-monarchy party.
The next destination is civil war city, unless we can stop or reroute the train. But the Democratic party isn’t willing to give up some power to the public to save the nation and democracy.
So civil war it is.
This is a perfectly concise explanation and I appreciate that. I was born in the early 80s and didn’t really take a hard look at politics until all this was well on its way to fuckville.
The thing that astounds me is that so many people simply buy into it and vote along party lines or whatever that it’s becoming increasingly impossible to change course.
And my problem with heading for civil war city, is that the gun toting, second amendment maniacs tend to be the ones voting for the worst of the worst; to borrow your phrasing, they’re voting for the ones pushing towards capital-driven fascism.
I have a serious concern that those fascists will end up being the victors since they seem to be represented and voted for by those whom are constantly practicing for the civil war outcome. To me, that means the chances of such a civil war having a more democratic outcome than a fascist one, are small.
Bruh. There will be no civil war or at the very least it will be heavily decided by which side the Military Industry chooses (hint it’ll be the side of maintaining status quo)
Jim bob with his ar-15 ain’t gonna do shit against basically any modern Military equipment (ie drones and f-35s)
It’s retired CIA analysts who specialize in civil wars and the symptoms that show high risk that pointed to the current state of the US in an interview on PBS. Noting that the precarity of the people combined with the uprising and political takeover of federal and state governments by the white Christian nationalist movement is going to lead to a conflict of interest neither tolerable in its contentious state, nor reconcilable by nonviolent means.
Essentially BLM (The public) vs. the law enforcement state. It’ll look like La Résistance versus the German occupation of Paris, with another layer of communication security / surveillance on the internet.
The US Armed Forces are not supposed to be deployed in the states, as we saw during Trump’s term. They’ll be extremely resistant to take sides, and it’s not clear if they’re going to want to side with the guys who are slaughtering drag queens and running thr prison complex like concentration camps, even though that will be the side that has legal authority over them, yet issuing illegal orders to them.
But unlike the German Reich, the US is huge and a lot of different things will be going on at the same time. There will also be more opportunity to interfere with the complexity of government and logistics of supply. It compares to the land war in Asia problem.
You bring up a good point of the Christo-fascist movement.
If all the jimbobs organize as zealots that could certainly lead to civil war with very messy borders
You’re not wrong and many of the military are on the same side as the gravy seals… aka those that are geared up for a military style incursion without the same training dicipline or structure as military personnel.
unfortunately, IMO, it would appear that’s the side that seems to have the most right wing, authoritarian/facist people involved. So any conflict is going to be super short lived.
Technically they didn’t vote to do that, every Republican since iirc Bush one had lost the popular.
Technically George W. Bush won in 2004. By a thread. As the incumbent. Versus John Kerry, possibly the blandest candidate the Democrats would offer… by swift boating the poor sod.
Aside from the fact that it was one of the most questionable election results of the last century.
Let them eat cake.
Thank you for taking the time to explain that.
The initials, the carpentry, the advocations for peace and against extreme wealth. You’d think a certain group would like this guy.
They did, but they changed their minds… or they had their minds changed.
While the three leading candidates (Reagan, Anderson and Carter) were religious Christians, Carter had the most support of evangelical Christians according to a Gallup poll. However, in the end, Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority lobbying group is credited with giving Reagan two-thirds of the white evangelical vote. According to Carter: “that autumn [1980] a group headed by Jerry Falwell purchased $10 million in commercials on southern radio and TV to brand me as a traitor to the South and no longer a Christian.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election#Campaign
Jfc I am ashamed of my species
It’s insane to think this guy, who was a pastor, lost the Christian vote to the cheating twice divorced Reagan
it was a concerted strategy on the part of the republicans who made anti-abortion policy a cornerstone of their platform while convincing pastors to preach about how it was a sin.
Racism do be like that
It’s very clear what the evangelical vote actually is for. They also largely voted for Trump over Biden, who’s a Catholic.
That one like half makes sense because evangelicals are obviously protestant and Trump is nominally protestant, but he is literally the fakes Chsitian to ever live. He is the kind of fake Christian you would only see in Christian media aimed at kids. I hate orange man bad “humor” but his saying “Two Corinithians” to an audience of Christian university students and faculty will live rent free in my head until I die.
Thank you, Mr. Last Good American President very likely ever.
We never deserved to be led by this man. We’d rather be lied to by actors.
Carter 76 👍
Yeah he helped create it. The first US president to begin to embrace neoliberal ideology and fictitious capital. Set the path for Ronald Reagan to bring in neoliberalism proper. And armed the Mujahideen, which lead to the crisis in Afghanistan. This is equivalent to Eisenhower warning everyone about the military industrial complex.
It’s frustrating. They say good things when they are removed from power. He sounds like a good person, but he was not a good president. Obama will probably gradually come around to this kind of talk when he gets older too. He recently all but admitted middle class decline due to concentration of wealth was responsible for the rise of MAGA. Don’t know if he will ever admit that drone “assassinations” he was in charge of were war crimes (assassinations in quotes because more than half the time the intelligence wasn’t even correct).
Just testing out IDF doctrine
Had to scroll all the way down for this comment. The only response to this article should be : “Thanks for making this happen”
It’s a feudal system of corporate lords with a priesthood of economists, politicians, and lawyers.
We didn’t deserve Carter. We still don’t. He’s a better category of human than nearly all of the politicians we have at the moment.
That is why the Democratic party drastically changed its primary rules after Carter was elected (to make them less democratic, and to give establishment elite party members more power).
They tried to tighten the collar on the public even more when Occasio-Cortez primaried an establishment Democrat.
The left-wing of the Democratic Party, including President Jimmy Carter, are the red-haired stepchildren of the party, and they’ll never let us forget it.
There are more secret fascists than it appears who will Hail Hydra when Secret Hitler makes his appearance.
Didn’t the rules change because Hubert Humphrey got snubbed by the DNC just flat out ignoring the primary results in states that had them?
Hubert Humphrey got snubbed by the DNC just flat out ignoring the primary results in states that had them?
I didn’t know this and am eager to find it. Was it during the 1968 election against Nixon?
I don’t quite remember, all I personally have off the top of my head is that it was the major contributing factor to the chicago DNC riots, and an overhaul of the nomination rules to appease the folks who called fowl.
Think “the superdelegates will only vote if a majority candidate isn’t found in the first round ballot” but I think it was actually even bigger when it happened.
The Democratic party tried to primary AOC 3 times afterwards, too ☠️
lol secret hitler? who’s that? too secret to tell?
It’s a fun game. Like at a party, until you realize it’s likely real life.
never heard of it (obviously lol) I’ll check it out, thanks!
Tis a game.
I think they take turns being the Secret Hitler, sort of like a Congressional game of Manhunt
Carter put solar panels on the White House roof. Reagan took them off because he was beholden to the fossil fuel industry. And now look at the planet.
Pretty much everything Regan touched turned to shit
Jimmy Carter is a fucking legend
clearly he’s old enough to run again.
It’s an oligarchy?
Always has beenHe was the one who ushered in the age of neoliberalism and set the stage for Reagan.
It’s sad that they only say the truth after they are far removed from power.
He’s been pretty consistent.
Not when it could have mattered
you should look up his foreign policy
Too bad this guy wasn’t in a position to do anything about that back when that started happening.
That was sarcasm
It’s hard to change a system when everybody else in that system wants you gone.
I think people really overestimate the power that the president has, realistically when it comes to these sweeping systematic changes the only thing the president has is veto power. Otherwise you just have to hope that everyone else in congress and the supreme court do what you want them to do
I think people really overestimate the power that the president has
Yeah, the billionaires are the ones who really run everything
That was sarcasm
You can use
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