Remember when the US /fought against/ fascism? Ah.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-24-2025 [heathercoxrichardson.substack.com]
Yeah the good old days when the Nazis were the bad guys.
Let me get this straight: the Republicans, the party of Dwight Eisenhower, think that the Russians are our friends, Western Europeans are our enemies, and the Nazis are the good guys. This is literally an unbelievable turn of events, and all within the span of some elderly Holocaust survivor's lifetimes.
Because of the price of eggs and the chance that a trans person might be in a bathroom!
This is shameful.
This has been cultivated for many decades, with the slow takeover of SCOTUS, Ronald Reagan / Thatcher destruction of the welfare state, the Koch Brothers funding of the Tea Party extremists, Rupert Murdoch propaganda machine relentlessly changing "hearts and minds", the repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act, Fairness Doctrine...
This didn't happen overnight. The Tech Robber Barons are just the latest instalment of the Neoliberal path we've been taking in the destruction of democracy, since 1979.
Bernie Sanders was the last chance we had in avoiding it and it's gone.
There will be a large scale war (civil or global) in the next 5 to 10 years, to release all the social upheaval boiling beneath the surface.
How would you characterize the "social upheaval boiling beneath the surface?"
Income inequality. It's only getting worst, the people on top don't have any incentive to stop it and discontent will have to be repressed, hard.
A war is also a nice way to provide ever growing expansion for capitalism, which at this point is already scraping the bottom of the barrel for thinning margins of revenue.
@per_sonne @Dave_Goldsmith @kahomono I’m unconvinced that Bernie could or would have saved us, but yeah, that’s the historical pattern: 5-10 years after a fascist takeover, they’ve (mostly) controlled information dissemination, stolen everything domestically and started encroachments on Other People’s Countries, destroyed everything that makes peace preferable to “fuck it, what have I got left to lose, die muhthuhfuckuhs”, and then the wars break out.