Tired bumbling murderous and ignorant old fart Biden who doesn't really know what's going and lets all manner of patsys make policy. He may take a little longer than Trump to finally undo and sell out America and Americans, but it's hard to remember how long it's been, if ever that we've had a democracy here.
2024 is shaping up to be a crisis in the US bourgeois order. A Biden win (too soon to rule out despite “Genocide Joe’s” terrible polling numbers) will certainly spark a mass neofascist Trumpist tantrum and new putsch attempts and fuel the fires of white nationalist rage. Think January 6 on steroids, fueled among other things by new claims of election theft. Something along the lines of a civil war could well result. A Trump win, distinctly possible, will mark a distinct fascist threat to previously normative bourgeois democracy, civil society, and rule of law. Violent retribution will be the order of the day from Washington. National Guard units and perhaps federal troops will be deployed to repress big cities and round up immigrants. A Trump 47 presidency will potentially mark the end of even moderately free and open elections in the US. It too may raise the prospect of civil war as masses of Americans (myself included) simply refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of a second Trump administration and the fascist party of Trump. Another scenario might be political and even inter-state violence breaking out on such an extreme scale prior to the election date that the November contest is suspended amidst civil emergency. Look at the open neofascist Nullification underway in Texas right now, backed by fully 25 “red” state governors, at least 12 of whom are sending their own National Guard units to help Texas’s fascist governor physically/militarily resist the US Border Patrol for being what they think is insufficiently sadistic in response to rising immigration from the long US-tortured nations of Central and South America! Clearly things are beyond what serious citizens can claim to be solving merely by dutifully stepping into voting booths and taking three minutes once every four years to make marks next to the names of the least awful ruling class candidates on the binary multiple-choice test that is sold to Americans as “politics,” the only politics that matters!
Dear Mr. Street, I've just read your piece: From "Man Bites Dog..." which reminded me of "The Five Degenerations" teaching of Buddhism, (with a likely Hindu origin). The five degenerations are as follows:
(1) Defilement of views - when incorrect, perverse thoughts and ideas are predominant;
(2) Defilement of passions - when all kinds of transgressions are exalted;
(3) Defilement of the human condition - when people are more unhappy and dissatisfied;
(4) Defilement of the life-span - we live shorter lives;
(5) Defilement of the world age - when war and natural disasters are rife.
Thank you for the great information, Dr. Street. They could understand that there is an alternative to a society of a few morbid rich and so many abysmally poor.
good to see your back. Paul...where have you been.
For sure this numbing of the human consciencness is a respose to over stimulation of horrific events. Maybe it's embedded in our DNA for survival purposes. Otherwise we'd be as nuts as our sociopathic world leaders. Whatr ever happens: we'll survive Paul. Chill....go huge a loved one. Your cat maybe?
As Carlin said: It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it!
Funny I posted and then saw yours. It fits. I have to watch this a couple times a year.
Tired bumbling murderous and ignorant old fart Biden who doesn't really know what's going and lets all manner of patsys make policy. He may take a little longer than Trump to finally undo and sell out America and Americans, but it's hard to remember how long it's been, if ever that we've had a democracy here.
2024 is shaping up to be a crisis in the US bourgeois order. A Biden win (too soon to rule out despite “Genocide Joe’s” terrible polling numbers) will certainly spark a mass neofascist Trumpist tantrum and new putsch attempts and fuel the fires of white nationalist rage. Think January 6 on steroids, fueled among other things by new claims of election theft. Something along the lines of a civil war could well result. A Trump win, distinctly possible, will mark a distinct fascist threat to previously normative bourgeois democracy, civil society, and rule of law. Violent retribution will be the order of the day from Washington. National Guard units and perhaps federal troops will be deployed to repress big cities and round up immigrants. A Trump 47 presidency will potentially mark the end of even moderately free and open elections in the US. It too may raise the prospect of civil war as masses of Americans (myself included) simply refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of a second Trump administration and the fascist party of Trump. Another scenario might be political and even inter-state violence breaking out on such an extreme scale prior to the election date that the November contest is suspended amidst civil emergency. Look at the open neofascist Nullification underway in Texas right now, backed by fully 25 “red” state governors, at least 12 of whom are sending their own National Guard units to help Texas’s fascist governor physically/militarily resist the US Border Patrol for being what they think is insufficiently sadistic in response to rising immigration from the long US-tortured nations of Central and South America! Clearly things are beyond what serious citizens can claim to be solving merely by dutifully stepping into voting booths and taking three minutes once every four years to make marks next to the names of the least awful ruling class candidates on the binary multiple-choice test that is sold to Americans as “politics,” the only politics that matters!
Dear Mr. Street, I've just read your piece: From "Man Bites Dog..." which reminded me of "The Five Degenerations" teaching of Buddhism, (with a likely Hindu origin). The five degenerations are as follows:
(1) Defilement of views - when incorrect, perverse thoughts and ideas are predominant;
(2) Defilement of passions - when all kinds of transgressions are exalted;
(3) Defilement of the human condition - when people are more unhappy and dissatisfied;
(4) Defilement of the life-span - we live shorter lives;
(5) Defilement of the world age - when war and natural disasters are rife.
Thank you for the great information, Dr. Street. They could understand that there is an alternative to a society of a few morbid rich and so many abysmally poor.
"Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care." - https://youtu.be/-54c0IdxZWc?t=240
good to see your back. Paul...where have you been.
For sure this numbing of the human consciencness is a respose to over stimulation of horrific events. Maybe it's embedded in our DNA for survival purposes. Otherwise we'd be as nuts as our sociopathic world leaders. Whatr ever happens: we'll survive Paul. Chill....go huge a loved one. Your cat maybe?
I've been posting things here quite a bit...the 9th, the 12th, the 13th and today.
Cat? Lol.