'MAGA Maoism' - isn't a joke, or even an unfair characterisation.
All the elements are there - anti-intellectualism, destruction of bureaucracy, attack on state capacity, sidelining of state institutions, blatant illegality, cult of the leader.
Took China two decades to get out of it, though election cycle in US style democracy should mean an earlier opportunity to change course
actionfromafar · 6h ago
There may be an opportunity to change course. On the other hand, the system is fraying. The FEC ( https://www.fec.gov/ ) is put out of action.
Elections may continue, but the results may be prescribed. It doesn't has to be as cartoonish as in North Korea or China, where only one party is allowed. The Russian model is more likely - competing parties are allowed, but only if they are losing competing parties.
overu589 · 2h ago
Coming is it?
A slow roll to a crash, where we all watch in helpless disbelief.
Americans are self deceivers.
America is a culture of lies.
The very best of you are just as foolish and thick headed as your opposition, you simply have more faith in your cult of “so called science” and a human nature among you long since undermined.
Our leadership selection debacle exhibits a different truth than you tell yourselves.
America is a lascivious mob of fickle apatites. Once cleverly cynic, you are now sarcastic and cruel. Wish fame or notoriety upon none you admire for they will be devoured from the inside and out, in the end despised for it.
You eat and shit your sweetest tastes and balk at the stench of a depleted world.
You are not the America you think you are.
These sound like a joke: Truth, integrity, free will, human rights, and a righteous rule of law.
They seem the exhausted gimmick, the well worn prop. You might even think we “try”.
Your failures as human beings are just to start. We haven’t even gotten to the part about the evolution of Power, and the modern state of thought control hobbling you into submission.
All the elements are there - anti-intellectualism, destruction of bureaucracy, attack on state capacity, sidelining of state institutions, blatant illegality, cult of the leader.
Took China two decades to get out of it, though election cycle in US style democracy should mean an earlier opportunity to change course
Elections may continue, but the results may be prescribed. It doesn't has to be as cartoonish as in North Korea or China, where only one party is allowed. The Russian model is more likely - competing parties are allowed, but only if they are losing competing parties.
A slow roll to a crash, where we all watch in helpless disbelief.
Americans are self deceivers.
America is a culture of lies.
The very best of you are just as foolish and thick headed as your opposition, you simply have more faith in your cult of “so called science” and a human nature among you long since undermined.
Our leadership selection debacle exhibits a different truth than you tell yourselves.
America is a lascivious mob of fickle apatites. Once cleverly cynic, you are now sarcastic and cruel. Wish fame or notoriety upon none you admire for they will be devoured from the inside and out, in the end despised for it.
You eat and shit your sweetest tastes and balk at the stench of a depleted world.
You are not the America you think you are.
These sound like a joke: Truth, integrity, free will, human rights, and a righteous rule of law.
They seem the exhausted gimmick, the well worn prop. You might even think we “try”.
Your failures as human beings are just to start. We haven’t even gotten to the part about the evolution of Power, and the modern state of thought control hobbling you into submission.