The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
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Great read. Too exhausted right now to finish it. These fascists need to meet more resistance so I can sleep at night… It’s real hopeless hours out here, but I guess that’s what they want.
Yeah that crazy guy yavin.is becoming more correct. It’ll be bloodless revolution if the left let’s it be.
I’m afraid if you want change were fast gonna have to become confrontational.
A good hard economic crash can do the same thing, though it’s not really bloodless either. Even if it doesn’t really hurt billionaires, it gets more people upset and changes things.
I’m afraid it’s going to have to be a really bad and long one to make any meaningful long term change though. Like I might not see the end of it, being in my mid 40s.
The trouble is it might not get bad enough for change until the boomers really die off, but not until they absorb or eliminate most of social security and Medicare’s funding.
Also even if the voters wake up and are allowed to change Congress and the president, we’re still stuck with the fuckbag Supreme Court. It needs reforming in parallel with campaign finance, proportional representation, first past the post, and the EC.
great analysis. worth the time to finish and absorb. it’s not enough for them to dismantle “woke capitalism”, they are reshaping the notions of what the state is and using it to clear the way for a new economic order which a select few capitalists control.
when the state has become so captured by private interests, whoever controls the state can use it to carve out their own fiefdoms. this may be the beginning of an era where cabals of elites take turns scorching the earth, vying for supremacy using government as a bludgeon against each other.
It is becoming clearer by the day that the war on “woke capitalism” was more than just theater. Trump’s minions really are prepared to take down whole economic sectors—the very summits of neoliberal capitalism—to elevate their own faction of private investment partners, company founders, and controlling shareholders.
How far the war on “woke capitalism” can be pursued without provoking an all-out recession (or intra-capitalist revolt) remains to be seen. What we can be sure of, however, is that Trump’s business allies will be spared the DOGE austerity treatment. As Musk’s raid on the Treasury and Trump’s attempts to interfere with the Federal Reserve make clear, libertarians don’t actually want to abolish the state, much less the massive fiscal and monetary powers embodied in the US Treasury and Federal Reserve. Instead, they want to drastically narrow the scope of beneficiaries to a small group of ultrawealthy private capitalists (company founders or controlling owners) and private fund managers in the world of crypto, security, real estate, and fossil fuels. This group of people is so small that we know their names; their faces are literally stamped onto their own privately issued coins, which will no doubt require propping up by the Federal Reserve in due course. Rarely has capitalist power been so personal, yet so massively inflated by the public purse.
