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Reygle@lemmy.world 2 days agoYeah I wonder too how many just took their signage and flags down but haven’t change their minds in the slightest- just took the “kick me” sign off of their backs.
Do you think we even have a way to turn away form it as a country at this point? My perspective isn’t terribly hopeful.
immutable@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I think trump actually gives a playbook.
I despise the man, but he had a pretty simple plan.
And that’s kinda all voters want, someone to tell them that they aren’t crazy when they feel like shit is fucked up and then fix it.
The Republican Party intentionally gets step 2 wrong. Not out of incompetence but because the actual causes of our problems are often the people bankrolling them, so it’s better to find some kind of scape goat. This is why they are so focused on doing the dumbest shit imaginable, because they have to purposefully misidentify the causes of problems.
The Democratic Party is also largely owned by the same donors, they just bafflingly fuck up every step. Neoliberal technocrats love to “um actually” step 1 and try to convince people that they aren’t actually struggling. Step 2 they mostly identify real problems but then aren’t going to be allowed to solve them because their donors get very rich off those problems existing. So they fuck up step 2 in a different way, the democrats are more than capable of telling you that global warming is real and caused by humans, but if we focus on that you might want to move on to step 3 and do something to stop it and the donors won’t like that, so let’s put some other issue the donors dont care about front and center instead. And if they ever get around to step 3, you get the ACA (aka Obamacare). A heritage foundation plan that entrenches the power of the healthcare and insurance industries perpetually locking us into a failed system with one or two genuinely good things, like outlawing denials based on pre-existing conditions, to make it palatable to the voters.
Both major parties are captured by the donor class, it’s not even a secret, every member of congress will tell you they spend more time “dialing for dollars” aka calling up rich people and begging for money (that we are supposed to believe is completely no strings attached, wink) than anything else. At the end of the day both parties work for those people. They pass laws and tax codes to benefit the wealthy.
The only way out is for a political movement to run trumps playbook but actually do all 3 steps correctly. Mamdani is maybe closest to showing this as a viable path to power, I think he is finger best contemporary example of someone executing it well.