Abby is right. As a young lady once told me, “the struggle is real.” Everything is a joke except money. Money is the god of this world, what makes the rich richer, the only meaning. The reality is that wealth concentrates upward in a pyramid and to get higher the base must bear more of the burden and get smaller. That essentially means work harder and let the weak die. Eventually this turns into showers and ovens to get rid of those who do not serve the master race. The dream is the last chapter of the Turner Diaries, with all non-whites, jews, and useless eaters exterminated leaving about a billion people on a “White Planet.”
“The Democrats would rather have Trump than an FDR platform, so, they are going so far right because they have no other choice.”
“-the only thing that has ever pushed politics left is the social movements in the streets, the masses that shut down business as usual-“
Democrat/Republic Institutional Politics is over, and that is the end of America. What comes next is either going to be some form of Trumpistan or, hopefully, after a brief and horrible reign of fascism, a “New America.” What would that New America mean? I can think of three things:
- No more billionaires. Rich enough to satisfy those with the narcissist genius disease enough to restrain them from overthrowing democracy as they just did. But no more obscene wealth, morbid wealth, whatever you want to call extreme inequality. And…as I wrote not long ago, “The only question in a democracy is how much a person gets to keep, which depends on how much the rest of us are empowered to keep other people from keeping everything.” This means taxes.
- Money out of politics. Regulation kept big money out of politics until recent decisions and that brought America to an end. The rule of law is actually the communism the right has always been screaming about…because they know if they can buy elections, they can eventually end the rule of law over them and all taxation and regulation on them, which is, by the way, the ground of democracy. The money to buy media, which turns “free” speech into “paid-for-their-speech” and the money to buy corrupt judges just ended America. Unless money in politics ends, whatever comes next will end again, perhaps in the same cycle in a hyper-accelerated version seen in banana republics.
- A mixed economy. The Nordic Model is essentially a continuation of The New Deal. These countries are the best places to live on this planet…what America was at one time. They walk that tightrope between allowing capitalists to create wealth and enabling socialists to redistribute that wealth. The result is a pyramid with a base that encompasses all citizens with none discarded and a capstone that innovators can aspire to ascend to without frustration.
Ice on the Moon 