Because of how polarized things have gotten, that it's become easier to see what is actually going on if you pay attention. I think that has to due with polarization becoming so powerful that the restraint we're looking at to hem things in is basically the foundational document of the United States. Those are the limits - the rules we play by.
When we push on those limits, people start to pay more attention. America has been sort of a sleeping giant of politics in the sense that the majority of it's people don't vote. Stuff happens, life goes on, no one really pays much attention. But that number has been going up in recent years, especially where we are now in 2020. And once someone starts to familiarize themselves with things and if they can look at things dispassionately can start to see obvious trends emerging.
As I write this (since things happen so quickly), I'm seeing Biden wanting to do more lockdown (4 - 6 weeks, and we know how that works out), I'm seeing his campaign announced they want to get back into Syria (yay, promising more war...), setting up "task forces" for things like online harassment (boy, will social media people love that one!), it's not hard to understand one side wants power, and wants it very badly. People called it the swamp before Trump came along, long before.
Meanwhile, Trump is fighting legally in the courts, and removed several high ranking officials recently who weren't trust worthy, a left-wing government official is trying to block him from declassifying documents on the grounds that it would be potentially damaging to the country. The power struggle is going on at every level of government, because both sides know how to read the Constitution and one side doesn't care too much about it while the other one wants to defend it to the teeth.
Every step right now from either side is basically a power move, each one more blatant than before if it's not censored or ignored by the media, or made so light of that no one cares. The media's corruption levels are so off the charts high that we actually have no clue what's going on besides this polarized battle we're locked into. Did all bad things outside politics also stop happening? The purposeful self-blinding of the media, their complicity in destroying their own profession has made the very things they want to hide glaringly obvious to anyone not suffering TDS.
It will take some time before people even understand that politics isn't just this thing that happens in offices, deals are made and honored or not, and it's all sort of for a better purpose. Not when the politicians are using all the power they can exert to try and grab on to more power. Things that happen in other countries, they can't happen in the United States? Or have happened? Like Eric Weinstein says, we're waking up from a very long nap as a society and turns out there's a reason for politics and it's not nearly as nice as the propaganda would have us believe.
Yeah like I've been saying, if you like Trump or not one of the major benefits he's had is bringing issues that are normally hidden and private right in front of the public eye.
The fact that "the system" doesn't have full control of the situation means they are lashing out and have to spend a lot of resources. That's what all this "fact checking" has been. Them desperately trying to control the narrative while people slip out of it's grasp.
I love when he just blurts out shit about the military industrial complex.
Some shit like:
Or when he made that comment about selling weapons to the Saudis because it would provide for lots of jobs.
If there's anything I will miss about this man, it will be the times where he says the quiet part out loud and no one can even do anything about it.
I heard that the frog(s) in said experiment had been lobotomized (or had their brains otherwise fucked with, which was the point of the experiment in the first place - to see what a mentally abnormal frog does.) Which means that the frogs simply haven't had their brains fucked with enough yet for to suffer boiling in the first place ....
I don't think we've been asleep that long in absolute terms. Remember the days of rage were inside 50 years ago. What you're running into is the twin meeting impacts of all brakes being taken off of inflating fiat currency in 1971, and the 'hard drinking party time' from the cold war ending finally wearing off. For just a little while there you could actually fool yourself into thinking money grew on trees and every enemy had been beaten forever, so the average person stopped caring. Fast forward about four decades of bad inflationary fiscal policy and globalism bleeding the rest of the wealth, and the average working stiff is making too little to really plan for the future, and no longer has any enemy to really celebrate decisively beating to distract them. Barring another 9/11 style super event, Middle East and South American dictatorships getting steamrolled do little to provide that same buzz for the average low info working stiff, and indeed is starting to generate the opposite. That dissatisfaction as pretty much everyone younger than actual Boomers is finding it hard to save up anything has boiled into political extremism growing for both sides. If you can't have a family and legacy under normal circumstances, the obvious next step is to go after the system preventing it.
Unfortunately the polarized ends are so busy arguing about what the resulting landscape should look like, nobody's worried about the massive in control enemy that's in our face: Media, Market Monopolies, and Finance. There's a bad tendency on this sub (forum? We're not really on reddit anymore.) to imagine the power that be want communism when it'll look a lot more like feudal serfdom without any particular care for what morality the underclasses have once they establish power further and reduce the population. I almost hope they make the mistake of letting the left-radicals get further unhinged trying to take more states and the legislature back to speed things along. That barking dog slipping the leash would be terrible for us and most average people, but the would-be puppeteer elite will get caught in the bloody upheaval much as they did in places like Russia trying the same trick of letting communism go 'just far enough' to swoop in behind.
I will agree the single best thing that has come of this recent disruption by Trump and the populists is attention on how corrupt and in-on-the-take the media is directly. The more they scream about being the truth, fact checking, disputing, etc. the better. If you have to say something so much even the slow kids take notice eventually. Fake news becoming a watchword is good news for average people. It's an organ of the uni-party and shouldn't be trusted even if it seems upset with any given neocon for a while, look how they treat Bush Jr. now compared to Trump.
The real sea change will be if radicals on either edge of the spectrum can start pointing the finger at banks and the federal reserve again, instead of leaving it as a libertarian joke of an idea. Occupy came so damn close and was popular with 'both sides' and that's why it got destroyed through the purposeful injection of IdPol that's infested the left radicals ever since. The right wing can't help charging like a bull right back at the cultural and moral aspects when they don't realize they're losing corps and the government because central ownership and dictatorial rule make more money for the people who already have most of it.
Just wanted to say that's a pretty good and unique political analysis there. I don't know that you're perfectly correct, but that's several views I haven't seen before that look accurate and valid. Refreshing perspective :)
This is a biased perspective on Trump. You could easily argue he's purging the military and installing loyalists, threatening national security if he doesn't get his way, and dragging the country into a horrifically divisive legal battle over a conflict he can't win.
I don't agree with that perspective, but remember that your perspective is a bit biased here.
Agreed, this is why I'm not super interested in the nitty gritty details about each claim or whatever event comes up. These are clearly tactical maneuvers. I know that it seems like Trump may not win his lawfare effort, but enemy maneuvers tell me that he's hitting a fucking nerve. As with real war, the words aren't important, it's the behaviors and actions that are.
Maybe. I don't think it's the only option. People who feel there's a deep state, career bureaucrats who are appointed, various groups within the government, etc? Getting rid of those people should be a goal - the swamp has been swampy for a long time. Or, you cast them as law-abiding patriotic people who reject Herr Orange Man himself!? There's really not much space between that at the moment in this view of things. It's just two political parties trying to lock down power however they legally can. They both know where the levers of power lie, and they're trying to take control of as much as they can. This is a thing political parties have constantly done in the past all over the world - just that America's has been pretty dormant for a while, only really waking up in the past 5-6 years.
Eh, I do like knowing the details. I think they're going to be rather important in providing evidence and I think that evidence has a lot of use. Regardless of the outcome, when all the errors lean in one direction and the errors are so numerous as to be laughably obvious... it makes it very, very hard for people to not understand the system is corrupt. The details show you how they're corrupt though: some if it is basic illegal stuff, but other times it's just the people in a room being given instructions by a supervisor that is contrary to the law, or in a gray area. Some of it is the devices used to count the ballots, or people improperly using them. Those should all be investigated, and end up either in prosecutions or at the very least in swift legal changes that make sure those exact same things don't happen again.
I do think the optics are a weird thing. Is he hitting a nerve? I would go as far as to say it's practically 4D chess: Things changed after he Mueller Report. People gave it a fair shot, every time there was news, a new bombshell, etc. The idea that Trump could be compromised in some manner or had done something dubious didn't seem impossible. But that was a complete and total dud, because it was a crock of bullshit. Then came Kavanaugh, and fuck, the left was even more horrible there. Their credibility was already several broken by that point. Now, Trump's got his own legal investigations going on, pointing to all their bullshit and dragging more of it into the sunlight? Yeah, Trump's been hitting their nerve for a while and he's not letting up. It'd be really great to know exactly what's going on though lol, and see how right or wrong I am :(
I don't disagree, but I think it's like analyzing a battle after it's taken place. The niche details are critically important to understand what went down, but in the middle of the battle, it's good to also not get bogged down on a single issue.
We'll find out as the smoke clears from the battlefield.
Things are only easier to see for those that bother to look, and I don't have one iota of confidence in the population of the US to actually bother to look.