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I see it more as speed of descent.
I'm of the opinion this country is sold, and died about half a century ago as a democracy, and this is just leftover momentum. All but waned momemtum.
Our vote isn't on whether to reorient the economy to reflect the priorities of its citizens, merely how, and if at all, to manage some of the social issue symptoms of our crumbling commons, the ruins of public education, as the owners search for new vectors of exploitation.
I see voting blue as akin to requesting we leave the water pumps turned on for this sinking ship to buy time(D), and voting red a vote turn them off because some passengers have been deluded into hating other passengers and really, really want to watch them drown(R) despite being in the same boat with them.
The holes are our economic policy, but ask either party about patching them and you'll get something akin to "What holes? This ship is unsinkable! If you think there's holes, you're the problem."
Dont worry though, there are lifeboats, just enough for the politicians and their donors. Wealth means not having any national allegience.
GK Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday, 1908
Exactly, multinational oligarchs live in their own reality, with their own infrastructure all over the world.
We are a piggy bank to rape for private profit, not their society.
That's what happens when you let people accumulate society warping levels of capital to begin with. Beyond material desires, that's what capital is: power. Power to propagandize entire nations with for profit media, power to capture entire state and world governments, power to live above the Commons you destroy.
No one should be allowed to gather more power in a society than their single vote allows. This is why civilized nations have publicly funded campaigns, and trying to buy votes is still a crime. Other people live here. Thre should be a 100% wealth tax somewhere in the high double digit millions where you get a cake and a medal and a senator comes and shakes your hand for all future money going to repair and improve the commons like roads and education and HEALTHCARE that facilitated their rise to such astronomical success to begin with.
Citizens of the Nordic nations, the happiest people's on Earth, largely have no problem being taxed for success because they're educated to understand that their success is society's success, and they live in society so everyone wins. Hard work yields bigger homes and toys, but not sociopaths trying to buy half of Hawaii's beaches to lock their fellow citizens away from that lived there first away from them for example.
They chose live together, we choose die alone. Most people suffer under die alone. I wish Americans weren't so successfully propagandized into being hostile towards the very idea of society on the basis of "well you might be rich one day, and you don't want filthy poor people making you less rich when that happens, do you, you fucking sucker?"