I was napping when they broke into the Capitol. My wife, Martha, woke me to tell me the news. At that point, the riot (or “insurrection,” if you prefer, although I wasn’t thinking of it in those terms at the time) was a couple hours old; it appeared that Congress was safe, our representatives tweeting and cuddling each other in their undisclosed safety bunkers. Ok, I don’t remember any reports of “cuddling,” but I like to think of Susan Collins and Chuck Schumer holding each other tight.
Martha said she thought we were watching an important moment in American history. I said I didn’t think so; there’d already been so much insanity during Trump’s four years in office that the scene struck me as just another example–though a particularly dramatic one–of MAGA’s criminal exuberance. It was, I thought, Trump’s political death knell.
Five years after the fact, with our criminal president reinstated for a second term, I understand that day—and especially its aftermath—differently. January 6, 2021 was the day America broke.
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Nobody ‘broke America’. It’s working perfectly as designed. This shit goes back 250 years, but a lot of people are just now waking up to the reality.
I understand that it may be a hard pill to swallow for Americans, but the truth is simple. The USA was founded as an empire and functioned as a terror state for pretty much all of its history.
If you didn’t know it, then it’s probably because it poured billions of dollars into mass propaganda, kidnapping and jailing journalists, as well as utterly destroying any country that dared to oppose it.
None of this started with Trump. Not a single thing. It has been the standard policy long before Trump was born. He just stopped pretending otherwise. In its entire history, the USA has had maybe 2 or 3 presidents that were not serious war criminals.
The core issue is not Trump, or the republican party, or the oligarchs, or even capitalism. The core issue is the United States’ existence. The only solution is to either radically transform the country, ideally dividing all states into independent countries, or to get rid of it entirely.
As long as the USA continues, world peace is physically impossible to achieve. There will not be peace, order, or justice in the world until the empire collapses.
It’s because after the Vietnam protest the wealthy parasites were like “woah, we are over-educating these peasants and their economic conditions are too accommodating and they are getting rebellious as a result”, so they’ve been on a 50 year mission to dissolve public education. Yes there’s also a propaganda component as they have turned all corporate media into state propaganda (what was it Mussolini said about merging corporations and the state?), but propaganda can’t be as effective if people are educated.
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