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Or maybe we're not VZ, NK, or IR precisely because our distraction machine is so darn productive, in that it gives us new distractions even when we don't need m
by meetups323 5y ago
Or maybe we're not VZ, NK, or IR precisely because our distraction machine is so darn productive, in that it gives us new distractions even when we don't need more.
All the nonsense surrounding the Jan 6 riots goes in hand with this. Remember all the talk a year ago about the tremendous good that would come from Dem controlled house, prez, and senate? Yeah nah, we're just stuck debating possibly starting an investigation of a one time event from half a year ago.
- mc32 5y agoI think a lot of that is just playing to a base. The Dem base is upset that they cannot achieve "a dream scenario" prog agenda, so the mainstream Dems throws them a bone. On the Repub side, the mainstream would throw the 'repeal ACA bone' in lieu of not being able to deliver their own "dream scenario." But I don't think that's classic redirection to avoid revolution Cuba-style. In those places it's eternally the day-after the revolution. Marches, efforts, pronouncements, denouncements, mobilizations, speeches, external scapegoating, etc.)