| JackHandy said: Curious to know what line this POS has to cross before 2/3rds remove him from office. Because there's got to be one. Surely these idiots in congress can see the polls. The American public has turned against him. There would be no repercussions. Republican senators would look like heroes. Everyone would win except the last remaining MAGA Nazi psychos... and who gives a damn about them, anyway? |
I agree that they keep pushing forward because they lack consequences. But I don’t think “leave it all up to an opposition party in the government to stop the ruling government party,” is a winnable strategy.
This is in the hands of the American people. If the American people have defected, then the power and ability to end this is in the hands of the American people. Right now, the Epstein billionaire class wins because they’re coordinated, and the American people aren’t. But the American people vastly outnumber them in numbers, so coordination efforts wouldn’t even take all that many to topple the Epstein class.
Ruling Classes keep their power by using their coordination to create culture war issues: X is a threat to your children, religion against religion against irreligion, ethnicity against ethnicity, skin colour against skin colour, creating in groups and outgroups as part of the national fabric → and I’m not even talking about the US here, I’m talking about Bismarckian (State Socialism) and interwar Germany (National Socialism); just that the parallels are obvious.
As a side-note, State Socialism and National Socialism in Germany are not to be mistaken for Socialism, just like you shouldn’t mistake American Liberalism for small classical liberalism or Neoliberalism in American English. A side note, but it illustrates the problem with language and propaganda: how coordinated classes can equivocate to fool people who lack critical thought on the subject, and those people see logic where none exists.
But, back to my main point: all these culture wars, religion, racism, hatred of the other, they’re people whose prejudices grew out of propaganda and ignorance; buying into a story and associating their self-identity with that. This is to distract people from the real struggle. It has always been class-based: the much larger lower class versus the small but highly coordinated upper class.
There are things that the American people can do if they have abandoned Trump and the Epstein ruling class. And it’s not asking the politicians who lost the last election, or even those who lost the primaries before the last election. All of that (by the rules of the American system) not only won’t work, but can’t work. But coordination among American people can work. First, Americans need to have a new story; the obvious one is American Democracy vs. the Epstein class, and this is something all of Western civilization can get behind; next there are three general action points American people can take:
1. Civil disobedience. This is your Gandhi stuff: disrupt the institutions and clarify that pushback will be met with increased disruption.
2. Organized labour strikes/general strikes. This will shut down the productivity of the machine on which these billionaires leach off of. This is your labour! They’re just scraping and coordinating the management to allow them to keep scraping.
3. Economics: Stop buying products from businesses run by this class of people and their supporters; that doesn’t even mean no big business, there are big businesses in the US who aren’t complicit (like Costco). This one is a bit of a pain, but other non-American countries are already doing this. There will be a few products that individuals and people around you buy regularly; figure out if they come from Epstein class-owned businesses, and then if there is an alternate source. There are also taxes, the “Robin Hood” side of this - but I don’t know enough about US tax law to navigate this, but perhaps someone can suggest how to hurt the machine.
All three things above have been used to topple regimes through history. But, whenever a class like the Epstein class comes to rule, their power is always just a mirage. And the world won’t end without them. It’s liberation.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
