I’ve studied Wolin and this is an excellent verification of his analysis. The Democratic party in so far that it is dependent on oligarchs and corporations since Reagan has put the US in a pre-fascist mode. Trumpists, his Project 2025 planners, have clearly studied how Hitler, Musolini, Orban used the liberal democratic constitution in their countries to destroy it.
Spot on analysis of where we are today. Trump is appearing more and more as a sick old man, a mouthpiece for the oligarchy , and the crowd who created and is implementing, project 2025. He and his administration do not have a mandate. When the people rise up in the streets against fascist takeover of the country the government will fall
just to let you know Paul I saw the post of the flyer and agree completely with its content.
as you and many others predicted this guy is a Hitlerian prototype. I suspect. I hope many will be taking it to the streets and the courts to protest his insanity
Over the past few decades American institutions were hijacked and weaponized against the majority of Americans. After decades of having our criticism ignored we've withdrawn from the consensus and are raising them.
You can't have shared institutions without discussion and consensus. This is not some sudden thing but the consequence of decades of essentially a cold civil war in the US.
All political systems are class ruled. The question should be whether the elites are extensions of the lower class, not whether they exist. Elites are an intrinsic feature of human socialization.
I started informally referring to Trump as "assface" a few years back. I got that term from a woman who used to hang around with the Marxist history graduate students at Northern Illinois University's student center back in the late 1980s. It was her term for her ex-husband. She'd say "assface is being a real jerk about the kids this week" and we'd know who she meant. I had no idea how spot-on the term is for Trump until this pic started going around.
Wolin's surgically precise phrase, 'inauthentic opposition', also applies in Australia, the UK, and many other countries whenever the ruling party is the most right-wing of two major parties. This apparent spinelessness is actually strategic and has effectively become a modus operandi of the global capitalist alliance. Therefore, in regard to the revolution -- May the gods hasten the day.
And there was no popular mandate for unending genocidal support to Israel. Even when the sh*t was hitting the fan, the national level Democratic Party could not separate itself from AIPAC influence to save itself and the country from fascism. They thought not being Trump and the MAGA hordes would be enough. I feel for the local and state level Democratic leaders who are now shackled with Trump 2.0. Some are good people trying to make a difference. They have had the rug pulled out from under them. Joe Biden and the DNC rolled out the red carpet for fascism in the USA.
Well, the US has never remotely been a democracy and this has been especially and graphically true in relation to "US foreign policy," a euphemism for US imperialism.
The DemocRATS are actively evil, not just some "dismal" bunch of hacks that can't get anything done. They ushered in Trump. On their watch... poverty, homelessness, slave wages, mass imprisonment, fascist cop cities, and the unconstitutional fascist surveillance state thrived or stayed the course. They fully armed and financed the most well-documented genocide in history. They never prosecuted the torturers , the war criminals, the criminal bankers, or the corrupt regulators, but instead bailed them out as the rich got richer and the poor got even fewer crumbs.
It appears the brain-washed sheep of the electorate prefer their fascism straight-no-chaser, so when the choice is between an overtly fascist carnival barker who is direct and honest about his fucked up intentions, to a bunch of evil shit-lib assholes who are not, they sometimes lose. These two parties are not giving us electoral choices. They are giving us a different tone, and much the same shitty policies. They are "two cheeks of the same arse".
Pardon me if I believe Trump is more of the same shit. Could our criminal foreign policy be any worse under Trump? I doubt it, but it's possible. That's the trajectory the American death cult is on. Brainwashed sheep don't care about that though, do they? It's all partisan asshattery, all the time. Trump, like Biden before him, is the result of decades of moral decay. This will not end well, and all the half wits will only blame the master troll Trump, and not see the ubiquitous evil of the whole charade.
A side note: One thing I noticed about Palast... he is a fine example of someone who is right as far as he goes, but never goes after the primary cheating DemocRATS as far as I've seen. Correct me if I'm wrong.
This is the realm that needs to be focused on that I've emphasized. Forget about communist revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat (or not) which I think is going to be unnecessary. I've been sitting on this concept for years. I had a crash course in U.S. politics through the Bernie Sanders political revolution and quickly realized that electoral politics and representative so called democracy were a dead end. I'm going to give an outline and go into a little detail on what I think is possible in my substack soon I hope. I'm very confident that it is a solid idea and cannot imagine someone else has not already conceptualized this.
It's not about me by the way, which is why I hesitate to bring attention to myself. It's about maximizing the potential for success of an idea that I think the time is right for. Shits getting ripe right now.
I’ve studied Wolin and this is an excellent verification of his analysis. The Democratic party in so far that it is dependent on oligarchs and corporations since Reagan has put the US in a pre-fascist mode. Trumpists, his Project 2025 planners, have clearly studied how Hitler, Musolini, Orban used the liberal democratic constitution in their countries to destroy it.
Trigger or NSFW warning on that close-up of his gob, please.
Spot on analysis of where we are today. Trump is appearing more and more as a sick old man, a mouthpiece for the oligarchy , and the crowd who created and is implementing, project 2025. He and his administration do not have a mandate. When the people rise up in the streets against fascist takeover of the country the government will fall
Hey thanks for the reply. I’m against the repubs and the democrats, who have been the party of endless wars for years. Just calm down please
just to let you know Paul I saw the post of the flyer and agree completely with its content.
as you and many others predicted this guy is a Hitlerian prototype. I suspect. I hope many will be taking it to the streets and the courts to protest his insanity
Over the past few decades American institutions were hijacked and weaponized against the majority of Americans. After decades of having our criticism ignored we've withdrawn from the consensus and are raising them.
You can't have shared institutions without discussion and consensus. This is not some sudden thing but the consequence of decades of essentially a cold civil war in the US.
I liked this but have to comment that this has been a class ruled political system literally from day one.
All political systems are class ruled. The question should be whether the elites are extensions of the lower class, not whether they exist. Elites are an intrinsic feature of human socialization.
Class rule is not an essential component of human nature.
That photo is just creepy.
I started informally referring to Trump as "assface" a few years back. I got that term from a woman who used to hang around with the Marxist history graduate students at Northern Illinois University's student center back in the late 1980s. It was her term for her ex-husband. She'd say "assface is being a real jerk about the kids this week" and we'd know who she meant. I had no idea how spot-on the term is for Trump until this pic started going around.
Wolin's surgically precise phrase, 'inauthentic opposition', also applies in Australia, the UK, and many other countries whenever the ruling party is the most right-wing of two major parties. This apparent spinelessness is actually strategic and has effectively become a modus operandi of the global capitalist alliance. Therefore, in regard to the revolution -- May the gods hasten the day.
And there was no popular mandate for unending genocidal support to Israel. Even when the sh*t was hitting the fan, the national level Democratic Party could not separate itself from AIPAC influence to save itself and the country from fascism. They thought not being Trump and the MAGA hordes would be enough. I feel for the local and state level Democratic leaders who are now shackled with Trump 2.0. Some are good people trying to make a difference. They have had the rug pulled out from under them. Joe Biden and the DNC rolled out the red carpet for fascism in the USA.
Well, the US has never remotely been a democracy and this has been especially and graphically true in relation to "US foreign policy," a euphemism for US imperialism.
The DemocRATS are actively evil, not just some "dismal" bunch of hacks that can't get anything done. They ushered in Trump. On their watch... poverty, homelessness, slave wages, mass imprisonment, fascist cop cities, and the unconstitutional fascist surveillance state thrived or stayed the course. They fully armed and financed the most well-documented genocide in history. They never prosecuted the torturers , the war criminals, the criminal bankers, or the corrupt regulators, but instead bailed them out as the rich got richer and the poor got even fewer crumbs.
It appears the brain-washed sheep of the electorate prefer their fascism straight-no-chaser, so when the choice is between an overtly fascist carnival barker who is direct and honest about his fucked up intentions, to a bunch of evil shit-lib assholes who are not, they sometimes lose. These two parties are not giving us electoral choices. They are giving us a different tone, and much the same shitty policies. They are "two cheeks of the same arse".
Pardon me if I believe Trump is more of the same shit. Could our criminal foreign policy be any worse under Trump? I doubt it, but it's possible. That's the trajectory the American death cult is on. Brainwashed sheep don't care about that though, do they? It's all partisan asshattery, all the time. Trump, like Biden before him, is the result of decades of moral decay. This will not end well, and all the half wits will only blame the master troll Trump, and not see the ubiquitous evil of the whole charade.
A side note: One thing I noticed about Palast... he is a fine example of someone who is right as far as he goes, but never goes after the primary cheating DemocRATS as far as I've seen. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Very interesting interview: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism
This is the realm that needs to be focused on that I've emphasized. Forget about communist revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat (or not) which I think is going to be unnecessary. I've been sitting on this concept for years. I had a crash course in U.S. politics through the Bernie Sanders political revolution and quickly realized that electoral politics and representative so called democracy were a dead end. I'm going to give an outline and go into a little detail on what I think is possible in my substack soon I hope. I'm very confident that it is a solid idea and cannot imagine someone else has not already conceptualized this.
It's not about me by the way, which is why I hesitate to bring attention to myself. It's about maximizing the potential for success of an idea that I think the time is right for. Shits getting ripe right now.
FUCK MO!