“American politics is best understood top down better than left/right” –Robert Barnes

I think this point is so very critical to understanding our lives in the Empire, and getting more important every day.

I’m just going to let the man amplify on his reasoning, and tell you about the statist/populist way of dividing things too.

ROBERT BARNES On Defending Alex Jones, Jimmy Dore For President & Free Speech (12 minutes well spent.)

Two amplifications of my own.

A lot of the same important points Barnes makes are said in a different way here. The main difference==where Barnes is Yale-educated, corpulently prosperous, and perfect in his production values, this guy is poor, crazy-looking, and overmodulated. But in their essentials, the perspective is the same, and I pretty much share them. That’s three American men in very different places in life, all drifting on the same basic tide.

I don’t think any of us will fall so far as to vote for Trump in 2024, but I can only really say that with certainty for myself. The point is that there are a lot of us feeling this way, straddling the line between generic liberal hate for the Donald, and the acknowledgement of the simple fact that good old folksy Joe, or Hillary, or Petey B. are in no way better, and maybe even a little worse, because their relative polish encourages the unwary to make this about “voting” between the nominal lesser of two evils.

During the ongoing January 6th hearing, I’ve listened to the shitlibs on NPR, and the people they naturally choose to interview and spotlight, going on and on about how what happened that day was such a threat, to Democracy, to the will of the people being done.

Hear me, Audie Cornish and the rest of you.

This is a capitalist empire and not a Democracy.

This is a merger between corporatism and the state, and that is exactly and precisely the definition of Fascism.

The will of the people, the demos, doesn’t mean shit to Donald Trump OR Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, or anyone in between. They prove it over and over every day.

Cynically calling the government of this country we all love The Fourth Reich is hyperbolic. But it’s really not far off the mark, either.

There are so many people waking up to these facts every day.

Some of them will vote for a Trump. Some of them will vote third-party. Some of them will stay home.

Nobody thus enlightened is going to vote for Biden 2.0, not even if she’s wearing the designer fashions of Saint Michelle Obama Herself.

The point of the hearings is to keep trying to find a way to ban Trump from ever running again.

Because if he does, and the Democrats put up their usual puppet show, they’re gonna get smeared. Maybe even in the popular vote this time, but certainly in the doddering old electoral college.

To survive and keep being their shitty selves, they need a big wrench, of the kind they traditionally use to fix elections and change regimes in poor countries all over the world. Only one that will work right here at home.

There is no guaranteed ‘Hispanic’ vote anymore. There’s even less and less of a black one, because a certain percentage of blacks and Latinos alike can see how they’ve been done just as well as any white person.

Biden and the Dems have done absolutely nothing for the proletariat except get involved in yet another upward wealth-transfer of a war that is now coming home to roost.

We can’t make it here, Any More. Listen to the prophet McMurtry.

Every time I hear that song I am moved to the edge of tears, for me and for him and for her.

I hate my empire and I pray for the bright new day of the next American Revolution.