At this point they’re actively hostile to all American Institutions that keeps them in check and are also actively hostile to the population itself. Trump’s previous Term was comparatively tame and even if he won in 2020 it would’ve been tamer than this. This is pretty much war being waged against the working class by the rich.
Do these people believe that they’ll be able to assert total control of all government institutions by 2028? Or is it some form of fascist self destruction ritual? Because right now even the chuds are having second thoughts about their party.
i dont know how this is a mystery. You have money, privilege, and delusion coming from a single sector of the empowered elite they exalt power and their own ideas of strength, they’re disgusted by what they perceive as weakness, and for a lot of power and control reasons they want womens rights rolled back, they want social life policed so strongly that it doesnt make sense to tolerate queer or any kind of deviant-from-norm lifestyles. They consider true knowlege and understanding to be a threat and an expression of power, and as such they want the average person to be significantly more ignorant. They want kids to work because if you can start young, you can raise a person to basically be their job - which under a fascist view can range from early exposure to corporate life for the privileged, to really fucked up shit like, in tandem with rolling womens rights back, the earlier you can condition them to their assigned role, the less likely they are to want to break out of it.
They want us more atomized and dumber, for the sake of control. They want the privileged to be highly specialized and locked in, too busy striving to survive to make trouble. They want a world where the weak die and the bonds that tie us together need not cross paths with anything like empathy or compassion
these people are psychopaths. There’s a reason these freaks all worship Odin and exalt their half baked ideas of norse identity. There’s a reason they’re willing to tear all this shit down. Their view of a climate collapse world is one where only the strong need be bothered to allow survival.
These folks have always been around, but since being rebuked in WW2 they’ve spent decades acquiring more wealth, more power, and making sure that they have credible smokescreens. The pageantry of 20th century fascism will start a fight, so they trade in confusion, illusion, and ignorance, rather than WWE-esque shows of strength. JSOC instead of the SS. the death camps made even more remote
it’s the same worldview and it’s the same money and it’s the same basic bullshit, but with more obfuscation, and more concessions to the fact we live in a world where they can’t pretend their ideas of elite excellence or whatever is localized to a single culture or skin color.
Ooh this makes me mad. It almost feels like if revolution doesn’t happen soon people will become so broken they won’t have the will to revolt. I remember reading in one of the Dune about methods of preventing revolution including making sure the people have no hope of things ever changing, no hope that they can escape. It really feels like the Torment Nexus meme; they just saw the worst things in fiction and were like, “Let’s do that!”