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I don't disagree with, say, reversing Citizens United but really what you list here is a bunch of symptoms. > Why is this not happening? Because Americans, as
by jmyeet 2y ago
I don't disagree with, say, reversing Citizens United but really what you list here is a bunch of symptoms.
> Why is this not happening?
Because Americans, as a whole, have zero class consciousness, thanks the hyper-individualism of liberalism and possibly the most successful propaganda campaign in history ie the Red Scare.
We have people who unironically will champion for the likes of Jeff Bezos to pay less in taxes and will identify more with Bezos than their fellow worker.
The wealthy and the corporations embarked on an intentional journey to destroy class consciousness and to buy the government. It's fascism, pure and simple. They even say it out loud [1]:
> "This is a tough question, but this is maybe the question that confronts us right now. There's this guy Curtis Yarvin who's written about some of these things," Vance said,
This isn't fringe. This is from Peter Thiel's alleged blood boy [2] and VP candidate, JD Vance. What did Yarvin say?
> "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia," Yarvin says in the clip.
[1]: https://www.salon.com/2024/10/01/rachel-maddow-sounds-alarm-on-jd-vances-pro-dictatorship-influences/ https://www.salon.com/2024/10/01/rachel-maddow-sounds-alarm-...
[2]: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to...