Former President Donald Trump urged members of a crowd in Florida to vote and said that if he wins, they âwonât have to vote anymore.â
Speaking at a Turning Point Action event in West Palm Beach on Friday, Trump, who tried to overturn the 2020 election he lost, delivered a cryptic message.
âAnd again, Christians, get out and vote!â he said to a cheering audience. âJust this time. You wonât have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? Itâll be fixed! Itâll be fine! You wonât have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians! Iâm a Christian. I love you. Get out. You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you donât have to vote again.â
Itâs been the Koch brothers and the John Birch Societyâs dream (amongst others) to propagandize so many people of the âAmerican Dreamâ and evils of anything other than capitalism. They were ecstatic when the Tea Party movement worked out for them, but they lost control of it with Trump. Itâs a monster of their own making.
*other than WHAT THEY CALL capitalism
They look at monopolies where the market leader buys laws, lobbies for protection and muscles competition out of the game unhindered and then they decry anybody calling it out as communists or socialists or the devil or whatever other bad word is en vogue that day.
Youâre almost there, comradeâŠ
Itâs not just what they call it, this is capitalism working as intended. This is the end game. Always has been. Itâs just now they have the tools to essentially brainwash millions using modern tech, and a wealth disparity that has been growing constantly for what, 100 years now?
Thatâs why it seems different this time; they learned from past attempts. Not only can you just make them not revolt (or shit, why not just Orwell it up and make it so they donât even think they want to), you can direct that hate, anger and vitriol at your âenemiesâ to sow more chaos and division.
I donât think any of the people responsible for planning and carrying out this decades-long coup could have predicted it would be this wildly successful.
Itâs like Putin tossing a million bucks to a state sponsored hacker group (because meh why not, what could it hurt?), and ending up with a fucking Manchurian candidate and an army of loyal GOP politicians terrified enough of what might leak from those hacked emails that they are literally willing to destroy their own country from the inside. Unreal.
Oh, this system is definitely doing what itâs designed to do, but âcapitalismâ nominally is this fair competition among equal players where the market decides which ideas and products rise to the top based on merit and whatnot. This would, however, require a level playing field which goes out of the window the moment the strongest player on the market uses their power not to provide the best products and services, but instead uses their power to solidify their top position by legal or illegal means or in ways they make legal by lobbying, bribing and otherwise convincing the legislative. The moment the biggest corporations secure themselves the cooperation of the political parties for one-sided tax cuts, bailouts, deregulation of limits and massive regulation in favour of the corporationsâ goals, that is the moment where weâve left this impossible ideal of capitalism far behind.
But yes, the monopolies reigning from the corpse of the capitalist idea while telling you that capitalism is alive and well have worked hard to shape the status quo to what it is and they are definitely pretending that this abomination perfectly encapsulates the unreachable purity of the perfectly fair notion of âcapitalismâ every chance they get.
Kochs lost control of Trump to the JBS types. The Kochs are more Mitch McConnell type power brokers, all about the money and corporations. JBS is more MAGA, with the heavy undercurrent of conspiracy.