The Democrats already go out of their why to impress Republicans bringing people like Powell and Kasich over while snubbing progressives. They take the progressive vote for granted and move hard to the right. Should Biden win there is a real chance that the republican establishment will denounce Trump and will work with Biden to "increase unity and heal the wounds Trump caused", but actually just to continue to wield power. Internally this means only the foulest compromise passing, the county being governed by a giant center-conservative coalition against the left and a few reactionary Trump loyalists. Externally China is the perfect boogyman to unite over. An empire of evil that only a united America that is true to it's roots can overcome. China is a legitimate threat to American conservatism because they show that regular "free" individualist capitalism is inferior to a collective state capitalism. They still manage to increase their populations living standards and build great infrastructure something the west has been incapable of for more or less half a century. Biden has already said that he will not be as "soft" as Trump on "dictators" and will be tough on North Korea, Venezuela, Russia (of course) and China. The democrats don't see the republicans as an enemy to be beaten to the point of no revovery, but an estranged partner, who must be brought to it's senses. For a German like me Trump might be the harm reduction candidate bringing America down faster while Biden might pull our conservative government into suppoerting another war.

You really need other venues than electoralism, like desperatly.

  • PhallicsJones [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I thought this board was for politics. Politicians do pop culture. Donors do Politics

    You don't care about Biden at all. You've actually never cared about anything a politician has done. No one has. Politicians have never done anything. Saying a politician does shit is like saying the wrench fixed your sink. Politicians are just tools for donors. Your rambling paragraph doesn't mention a single actual politician or their real personal agendas.

    If you aren't name checking a hard-asset, infrastructure owning oligarch then you're just an arianna grande, get your cat ears and vote for no one. Here are the oligarchs behind Rupert Murdoch, these are who you should be worried about instead of biden:

    John Malone Stan Kroenke James Cox Brian Roberts Charlies Koch

    The thing you're sorta talking about but too triggered to understand is that Biden is actually backed by all the oligarchs on either side. That's weird and scary. The Lincoln Project is entirely staffed from former Koch-paid Tea Party staffers and now it's backing biden.

    Basically the last 4 years was just a massive spree of deregulation. While all these abuses of the PPP loans for tens of millions are being parroted in the media, people like the kochs and malones didn't take money, they took laws. The laws they got will earn them extra hundreds or billions per year, now with those in place they can go back to a moderate-psychopath (Biden) before installing Tagg Romney as emperor in 2024. Basically the bullshit image they have for the Romney clan already has "destroyed the middle class" so they put trump in for 4 years to pass the laws too unpleasant for Mitt's reputation and vilify foreign sovereign/private equity.

    The globalist vitriol is going to be used to (reasonably) regulate foreign capital which is great. Fuck MBS and softbank and all their bullshit. But they will not regulate domestic private equity. Foreign capital has be the only competition that american oligarchs had to compete with and when they're regulated out of the system, and after 2020 that'll be diminished and the Kochs and Malones will truly be kings.

    But ya, you being triggered by biden is cool too. Cool opinion ya got kid.