Sunday, November 8, 2020

The Election in Broader (than partisan retard) Perspective

Following the great depression and WW2, the United States was setup to benefit families and working class and middle class people. The system was designed to keep corporations and banks in check. That didn't really last very long. By the time the 60s and 70s rolled around, that system was falling apart. Labor strife put some corporations out of business and made US industry "inefficient".

Deregulation and a shift to corporate control of the country started in earnest in the 70s. Labor was more and more marginalized, and government policy became very heavily lopsided in favor of corporations and banks and international financiers. Republians and Democrats participated in that restructuring. We probably hit the peak of that depraved system in 2008 and through the 0bama administration. The corporate robber barons and their associates in the government are every bit as self-interested and destructive as labor run-amok in the 70s.

The corporate financial people want to cement their position with socialism, ironically enough. Socialism in the 0bama/neoliberal sense is enshrining NGOs, corporations, and financial interests in the government system, just like the Federal reserve is attached at the hip with the government, there will be several more cancerous corporate institutions attaching to the US via neoliberal corporate communism. The covid bullshit is part of this. Global warming bullshit is another part of this.

I think Trump was sort of a fraud, or was completely ineffectual. If he was legitimate, he was way out of his depth. However, his administration was like a rock that jammed up the gears of the corporate commie machine for a few years. If he won/wins re-election, we'd have another brief reprieve before the country turns into a gulag run by corporations.

Now there's two options: walk away from the system and let it collapse, or fight to try to retake control.

I think option A--walk away is the only viable option. What do you even fight in option "B"? "The System"?

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