| Dulfite said: I went from wanting to argue with you (because BOTH parties are overly controlling like fascists on different issues, not just conservatives), to not wanting to comment because you started to go off the deep end, to wanting you to make this into a book that I would buy and read. I'd also take a movie, but I believe a book would be a better format for indulging your unlikely fantasy in more depth. |
Well, as a left-wing Independent, I don't necessarily disagree that "BOTH parties" have fascist-enablers in them, although I would say that only the GOP has proud fascists voting for it and running for office under its label. Democrats are mostly neo-liberals who enable fascism, but don't believe in it.
The rest of my predictions are quite realistic. The post-New Deal consensus created a bias where people thought we were in some End of History and when that consensus fell apart, it became apparent that history was still happening. A Great Depression level crisis would just expedite the events I was talking about, and that isn't entirely unlikely to happen in the following decades, but I think they'll happen nevertheless. We already are about where the U.S was in the late 1920's, a period right before one when there were indeed syndicalist insurrections and prominent fascist political-economic actors.
There just isn't any FDR-esque figure to "save capitalism from itself" this time, and I don't suspect one will arise. Late-stage capitalism will continue to get horrible, unfortunately.
