A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential transition into the presidency calls for dozens of prisoners to be executed, according to HuffPost. An 887-page plan by Project 2025, led by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, says that if elected, Trump should make a concerted effort to execute the remaining 40...
Huge accumulations of capital are incompatible with democratic governance.
That’s the issue we are not willing to solve.
Fascists are simply people passionate about infinite capital accumulations. The fascists protect the billionaires by channelling the populist economic discontent toward all manner of scapegoat issues.
If you don’t like fascism you must work to outlaw, and make culturally unacceptable, extreme wealth accumulations.
That analysis is true only if the base is the target of the violence. Targeting the base is a big mess. But if the targets are the prime beneficiaries of the status quo, just the 0.01%, there is no mess. But that requires discipline, research, patience. Not just anyone can pull that off.
I get that the billionaires can’t do it alone, but my point is, without the elites the fascist/capitalist base by itself isn’t sufficiently organized or motivated to run an oligarchy.
Despite the country’s deep political polarization, most Americans share many core beliefs about what it means to be an American, according to a new poll....
The Dems are just in favor of a slightly less brutal oligarchy. The Dems by and large still take a lot of money and other favors from the billionaires and know which side their bread is buttered on.
The Dems today are not a party for the poor, the workers, the bottom 50%, or anything like that. Thus the current Dems on their own are not up to the task of any serious economic restructuring. And we can’t solve any major problem without dealing with our insane wealth inequality.
The Biden Campaign is Courting an Unexpected Group of Voters: Republicans (www.npr.org)
The economy is thriving under Biden. So why don’t Americans believe it? (www.dailykos.com)
Conservatives are freaking out because they learned that some animals are gay (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Conservative Plan Calls for Dozens of Executions if Trump Wins (www.thedailybeast.com)
A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential transition into the presidency calls for dozens of prisoners to be executed, according to HuffPost. An 887-page plan by Project 2025, led by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, says that if elected, Trump should make a concerted effort to execute the remaining 40...
How rich is too rich? (www.nature.com)
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1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds (www.pbs.org)
Yes, we're divided. But new AP-NORC poll shows Americans still agree on most core American values (apnews.com)
Despite the country’s deep political polarization, most Americans share many core beliefs about what it means to be an American, according to a new poll....