My argument is without decades of Mitch and others we wouldn’t have MAGA. They didn’t just wake up in 2016 and decide to be racist assholes. They were created over decades by design. Trump just allowed them to be their true selves publicly.
The collective Republicans’ long game actions is like getting a medication with a long list of “side effects might include” and then every single one of those side effects happens.
Basically you are inditing the species. The outcome is the culmination of the whole. When the country implodes, you might hear “but it was such a good country”, but not good enough. Ask the minorities. Ask the citizens who are adversely being affected by having their civil rights stripped. Ask those who sat by because they were mostly unaffected, maybe until now. We will be judged as the whole, not as the good individuals who tried and are still trying to right the boat, if we fail in the end.
Clarification, this is not a sermon I am preaching to counter or critique your post, just an observation. There is a long trend here. In small group survival situations we may act for the good of the whole because the stakes are so apparent. But in any larger group and in some percentage of us, mostly the smart ones who have the opportunity and are in the position to take advantage, this is what we often see. Oh, and you also need a lot of sheep willing to be oblivious, or herded and sheared. That’s humanity in a nutshell.
In a condensed history, The World According to Huntn, the group that represents the Republicans has never been for the working class. Usually I finger Reagan in the 80s, and slimy Newt Gingrich in the 90s as the start of the Republican party disintegrating. This is where the GOP had reached a point of lessened popularity, of turning to outright lies, manipulation, mischaracterization, hypocrisy, and double standards in an effort to hold onto power. And as they started to lose their grip, their devotion towards the standards upon which the Nation was founded, started disintegrating with them as they move on to fascism as the solution.
In the post WWII environment, first economic boom, and then slowly sliding backwards, capitalism holds no patriotism. And as the huge middle-class from the 50s started to dwindle, to what it is today, you have a group of dissatisfied citizens, struggling paycheck, to paycheck, wondering how they pay their medical bills or their rent who might normally be classified as blue-collar, and unhappy with the inability of liberals to keep their good paying jobs for them.
Then comes along the genius of the corrupt, millionaire, sociopath, Lil’Donny and MAGA who appeals directly to the disaffected (and the disaffected racists) with his latest con job about how he cares for them and will make America great again. Ha ha.
We’d be kidding ourselves if we didn’t think that racism, and white privilege does not play a big part in this movement.
Capitalism will never do it for the majority without hard-core regulations design to prevent gluttony, the unhealthy accumulation of wealth. I’d regulate out of existence, both billionaires and multimillionaires. How much money do you need to live a good life? Do we have it in us? Let’s see if we can first avoid imploding.
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