I suppose the Georgia runoffs should be a future focus, but really… You have at least two more years of this administration, and of, uhh, obvious mental decline all round…
Electoral “democracy” clearly ain’t working (I’m not sure why anyone thought it would), and I imagine at least some… Subsets of “globohomo” are going to be rather emboldened by this result, so…
What plan now? Do you feel that there is anything you can do to change the current direction of your country and/or states, pre-2024, or is it essentially a case of “strap in for the ride”..??
I’m essentially merely an external observer, here. I don’t really have any skin in this game, lol…
That's completely fine by me.
The elections are working just fine to continue de-legitimizing the system, collapsing faith in the institutions, and provoking further and further blowback.
I was actually really concerned that a true Red Tsunami would force the Dems to adjust and actually pose a real threat of defeating Trump in 2024 by doing a 180 on Social Justice. But now I know it can't happen.
It's the same reason why as bad as things are in the UK, the death of the Conservative party is going to be a great thing that will save the country. A lot of people don't get it, and I apologize for being blunt Bamboozler, but as an Aussie you might only be looking at this from an Authoritarian lens, while a Libertarian perspective shows you the good at play.
It is true that chaos is an emergent property of order. It is also true that order is an emergent property of chaos. The American system looks insane because it is designed to promote political chaos in the government. That's whole point. Orderliness in governance is bad because it promotes tyranny. The longer you hold to chaos, the stronger the force for order becomes. The opposite is also true.
It is within the chaos, and only within the chaos that new order can emerge. New order can not naturally replace old order without subversion. But when the order becomes to strict, it promotes chaos, and the longer the chaos remains, the more likely the new order exists to displace it.
The chaos is teaching people how to fight politically. How to build social systems. How to build financial systems. How to develop not only new systems but new people. How to engage in civil disobedience. How to consolidate power. All to entire populations of people who never even considered it once in their lives until they said, "Fuck... I have to do something about this."
As with deflation and bank failures: good. Let the collapse happen. The people will naturally re-bound. Those on the far end of the risk curve will be burned. Those who trusted the system will be forced to feel the consequence. The perennial gale of creative destruction will not be denied.
That destruction part is what scares the shit out of traditionalists, conservatives, and authoritarians. As your resident American Liberal Revolutionary, it's a good thing. Count on it.
This is why containment is a deadly threat to Leftism. If it is contained, people can and will experience an alternative, and the lessons will be slowly learned. The Leftist hive cities will depopulate. Their money will be destroyed. They will be demoralized. And everyone else will be in the opposite position.
Sounds like tea leaf prognostication.