If you’ve never repackaged and sold the same old shit as ‘hope and change’, well, that’s why you’re a fucking poor.
That being said, if you don’t think today’s results reflect a significant shift you’re blind. The republican strategy to racist shitpost their way to absolute power has pushed society further left than any attention seeking would be icon ever could.
The right racistly shitposted their way to control of all 3 branches of the US government in response to Obama, a slick neoliberal that avoided blame for anything bad that happened (among liberals).
Material conditions are degrading in the imperial core. This has been a bipartisan effort as lackeys of haute capitalist forces. A rediscovery of some version the left was/is essentially inevitable due to this develipment, but it is still entirely cooptable by fascistic tendencies in this godforsaken country, in part exemplified by the impetus on this very site for some users to call basic (US) anti-warism an “ultra” position because the flavor of the day said something chauvinist about Venezuela.
Imagine what naked American fascism would actually look like. It is still largely hidden, it’s wrapped up in its “polite imperialism” vestments, sometimes “rude imperialism” nowadays with some dog whistles thrown in. But think about what they would coopt, what lines they would cross, and who they would pull and what levers they would use.
Nah we did the blue wave thing under Trump 1. If it was a significant shift we wouldn’t have gotten Trump 2. How are you even judging this as a shift? Nothing has happened yet. Social media makes everything seem monumental and historical. We won’t know if this is a significant shift until later.
Also don’t use “blind” that way. Blind people can understand history and theory enough to adequately contextualize today’s events. However, people with working eyes get a lot of stuff wrong.
If you’ve never repackaged and sold the same old shit as ‘hope and change’, well, that’s why you’re a fucking poor.
That being said, if you don’t think today’s results reflect a significant shift you’re blind. The republican strategy to racist shitpost their way to absolute power has pushed society further left than any attention seeking would be icon ever could.
The right racistly shitposted their way to control of all 3 branches of the US government in response to Obama, a slick neoliberal that avoided blame for anything bad that happened (among liberals).
Material conditions are degrading in the imperial core. This has been a bipartisan effort as lackeys of haute capitalist forces. A rediscovery of some version the left was/is essentially inevitable due to this develipment, but it is still entirely cooptable by fascistic tendencies in this godforsaken country, in part exemplified by the impetus on this very site for some users to call basic (US) anti-warism an “ultra” position because the flavor of the day said something chauvinist about Venezuela.
Imagine what naked American fascism would actually look like. It is still largely hidden, it’s wrapped up in its “polite imperialism” vestments, sometimes “rude imperialism” nowadays with some dog whistles thrown in. But think about what they would coopt, what lines they would cross, and who they would pull and what levers they would use.
Now imagine what opposing them would look like.
Nah we did the blue wave thing under Trump 1. If it was a significant shift we wouldn’t have gotten Trump 2. How are you even judging this as a shift? Nothing has happened yet. Social media makes everything seem monumental and historical. We won’t know if this is a significant shift until later.
Also don’t use “blind” that way. Blind people can understand history and theory enough to adequately contextualize today’s events. However, people with working eyes get a lot of stuff wrong.