Despite Trump’s compulsive lying, I think he’s right when he says the seige on the Capitol was just the beginning, in that more skillful fascists are waiting in the wings.
The liberal wing of the corporate media emphasizes the elements of white supremacy among Trump’s supporters, at the expense of informing citizens about how authoritarianism is a symptom of major changes in global capitalism: the shift of economic and political power from the US to China.
That phenomenon involves the increase in extreme inequality within the US combined with the emergence of a people-of-color majority within our country.
There is likely to be major conflict in our country between forces promoting multiracial social democracy on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a possibly ethnonationalist, if not racist clinging to US hegemony.
It’s textbook political science or maybe even common sense: if there is increased concentration of wealth and with that, political power in the hands of a relative few, we cannot have democracy, whether multiracial or even the white supremacist pseudo-democracy of the recent and distant past.
Dictatorships are common in countries where there are masses of people who are impoverished and where a small minority controls the wealth.
I don’t plan to leave the country, but instead intend to fight, in my own way, to support alternatives to fascism.
The political center probably won’t hold. Both parties are hemmed in by the priorities of transnational corporations.
The seige last week showed us that significant numbers of people within the police, the military, politicians in the US House, as well as high-powered Republican donors such as the Mercer family, identify with the far right.
The majority of the heavily armed civilians in the US identify with the political right, with significant numbers identifying with the far right, including white supremacists.
Major conflict is likely in the near future.
The only viable path forward for the US is coming to terms with China’s rise by seeking a new US foreign policy based in multilateral global cooperation instead of militaristic hegemony.
Domestically, our only viable path forward is multiracial social democracy via a robust reinvention of our political and economic systems so as to undo both white supremacy and the plutocracy that is strangling US national interest.
Some of that struggle likely will involve violence, mostly from the reactionary political right via the police, the military, and rightwing or fascist vigilantes. No matter how love-themed and nonviolent a social movement for political and economic freedom and justice is, segments of the ruling class will use violence in an attempt to preserve their power.
Though self-disciplined nonviolence can certainly enable social movements to be more effective, it certainly won’t guarantee participants’ safety.
I must follow thru with the decision I made in ’07 after completing my BA, choosing freelance activism-based study over a graduate degree or other formal training, cementing my position in the working class, and forfeiting some of economic security of middle class life.
Last week’s seige on the Capitol increases my motivation to get politically involved.
Maybe consider among your other planning, having a place outside the US for you and your family.
Despite Trump’s compulsive lying, I think he’s right when he says the seige on the Capitol was just the beginning, in that more skillful fascists are waiting in the wings.
The liberal wing of the corporate media emphasizes the elements of white supremacy among Trump’s supporters, at the expense of informing citizens about how authoritarianism is a symptom of major changes in global capitalism: the shift of economic and political power from the US to China.
That phenomenon involves the increase in extreme inequality within the US combined with the emergence of a people-of-color majority within our country.
There is likely to be major conflict in our country between forces promoting multiracial social democracy on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a possibly ethnonationalist, if not racist clinging to US hegemony.
It’s textbook political science or maybe even common sense: if there is increased concentration of wealth and with that, political power in the hands of a relative few, we cannot have democracy.
Dictatorships are common in countries where there masses of people are impoverished and where a small minority controls the wealth.
I don’t plan to leave the country, but instead intend to fight, in my own way, to support alternatives to fascism.
The political center probably won’t hold. Both parties are hemmed in by the priorities of transnational corporations.
The seige last week showed that significant numbers of people within the police, the military, politicians in the US House, as well as high-powered Republican donors such as the Mercer family, identify with the far right. The majority of the heavily armed civilians in the US identify with the political right, with significant numbers identifying with the far right, including white supremacists.
Major conflict is likely in the near future.
The only viable path forward for the US is coming to terms with China’s by seeking a new US foreign policy based in multilateral global cooperation instead of militaristic hegemony.
Domestically our only viable path forward is multiracial social democracy via a robust reinvention of our political and economic systems so as to undo the plutocracy that is strangling US national interest.
Some of that struggle likely will involve violence, mostly from the reactionary political right via the police, the military, and rightwing or fascist vigilantes.
At least that’s my rough sketch. I would not mind being wrong about this. It seems, at least so far, I was wrong regarding ‘peak oil.’
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