Summary
Former federal prosecutor Sara Levine, fired by Trump, warned on 60 Minutes that the Justice Department is “under attack.”
Levine, who prosecuted January 6 rioters, said she was fired for upholding the law.
Legal expert Peter Keisler criticized Trump’s pardons of Capitol rioters, arguing they signal that crimes committed in support of Trump’s agenda may go unpunished.
These actions undermine the rule of law and discouraging accountability for political violence.
a capitalist society will always inevitably devolve into fascism, as short-term profit-driven thinking dominates decision making
the DNC is right up there with the GOP in terms of causing this clusterfuck. decades of neoliberal policies have left Americans financially insecure which has caused a total loss of faith in institutions over the last few decades.
in a good decade, a little crisis here and there is maintainable. but when you have dramatic knock-off effects of new technologies combined with global economic shockwaves like COVID and the Ukraine war, all of a sudden the establishment hold on power starts to slip. the corporate world doesn’t care about democracy. they’re more than happy to switch over to a fascist government- there’s a very high potential ROI in bending the knee.
Trump took advantage of this and beat them. We saw the corporate world switch sides during the inauguration. He is now purging the federal government of any elements that may oppose his further renovations.
This problem did not start last year in November. This problem started decades ago and spans generations.
It’s unfortunate but it’s the reality. We as a society are sick. We are fundamentally sick and getting worse. We ignored it and persevered, but it can only be ignored for so long. We are now starting to see serious symptoms, like a person who gets a fever and starts shivering.
Trust me, it’s going to get a hell of a lot worse before it ever gets better. We’re in for a rough decade.
So, your solution is to quote Marx and hope the revolution will materialize.
Meanwhile you don’t have anything like a plan to deal with the world as it is.
I wish I had the privilege of letting things get worse, but, silly me, I actually care about people and see them as something besides pawns of history.
it’s actually not quoting Marx. Marx believed that a capitalist society will over time always result in a worker’s revolution. I’m more pessimistic about human nature. I think a capitalist society will always result in fascist authoritarianism
do it then. make things better, I’m rooting for you.
Like everything else you wrote, that doesn’t actually do anything at all.
believe me, i’m not under any illusion. but i do genuinely encourage you to do whatever you think will make things better. can’t get much worse