It’s a pretty damning indictment on our corporate media, toxic social media, and decadent society that this guy could do all the things we know he did, including an attempted overthrow of our government, and still remain the leader of the GOP and potential president for 2025. The indictment on page 30 details a conversation where he hoped that Pence would stall out the certification and he’d invoke the Insurrection Act to use the military to quell any protests. This man is an evil man who cannot be allowed to have power again.
Just what a terrible indictment of our pathetic corporate News and social media that value outrage, clicks, conspiracy, and algorithms that benefit providing cover for Trump while pushing decency, fact based reality, and democracy away.
A Times/Siena poll suggests a slight Biden edge among voters who don’t like either candidate.
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Again, the peace and prosperity that Democrats and normal Republican leadership in America have provided for decades for its citizenship has now become one of its greatest enemies. Too many Americans are bored with modernity. Life is just too easy. They’re in desperate search for meaning and they’re finding it in all the worst causes. Transphobia, book banning, and authoritarianism. We’re seeing this same plague across most other stable democracies too. The peace and prosperity in this Post Cold War life has become liberal democracy’s greatest threat.
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Trump could croak tomorrow. But that doesn’t change the fact that 30-40 percent of the electorate is just gone. Their brains have been rotted out by the 24/7 hr news-cycle, Fox News propaganda, social media junk, garbage church leaders, and boredom from modernity. They’ll jump onto the bandwagon of the next demagogue that gives license to their worst instincts.
I’m not too hopeful for liberal democracy in the long-term. I think Biden still wins in 2024. But we have so many issues and nearly half the electorate is dedicated to making them all worse because they find entertainment and fulfillment in destroying the freedoms and prosperity that liberal democracy provides for them.