The lockstep calls for a fucking war with Russia across the political spectrum, including by probably 99% of the US left, has convinced me that change for the better is impossible in this country and will be for the forseeable future. People still got World Cop mindset and refuse to let it go. Memories like fucking goldfish, like the last 70 years of US interventionism just don't count or some shit. This country needs to be humbled.
Made a whole damn account just to vent because it seems like this is the only place to do it without people saying you lick Putin's boots.
Yeah, but the populace still can't do anything, as their input is completely disconnected from the MIC. The war starts and stops without their input. We likely don't have the capacity to do this war no matter how much consent is manufactured. And even if we did go to conventional war with Russia, China would be the victor, much like the U.S. was in WWII, barring nukes, in which no one would be the victor.
But yeah, change for the better is likely not possible within the foreseeable future, but that has more to do with the continuing generational wealth and multiplying debtors grifts that are propping up the working class in this country. When that fails, then we will see radicalization movements, and the divisions in the country will likely cause the instability nessecery for South America to buck the yoke. What they will then establish remains to be seen.
Isn't this kind of already happening though? If how Castillo's turned rightward is any indication, I don't know if this is as hopeful as we'd like it to be.
But then again Venezuela's been dabbing on America for like three years straight so what the hell do I know.
Whatever is going on in SA, they are still having to react to the U.S.'s hegemonic dominance over the financial and military systems in SA. Nothing going on now is indicative of what might occur should America actually begin to collapse. We should always be wary of leftist electoralism that doesn't ground its power in it's ability to martial labor though, that is a given regardless of circumstances.
That being said, I'm not trying to give false hope, after all even after the fall of Russia the revolution failed in Germany. I'm just trying to point out that there are still areas that have different propagandizing techniques that are not as intensive as what goes on in the Anglo-sphere. We could see collapse lead to an increase in SA Fascist Nationalism, after all facism is just capitalism in decay, but with global capital unable to support those movements we could also see a rise in the power of indigenous socialist movements. The fact that they are having minor amounts of success in spite of American domination indicates to me that this is not the ceilng of power for these movements, but more of the floor.
What happens afterwards is anybodies guess.
I want to counter this. America has already begun to collapse, and has been for decades. There are wide swaths of the country where the government is essentially non-existent outside of road maintenance, and even that is falling by the wayside. The postal system takes days to do what it used to take hours to deliver. The hospitals are falling apart. The US's ability to project power globally is in free fall, and this is why Russia chose now to strike against Ukraine. This is why the mercenary attempt in Venezuela failed, this is why the coup attempt in Bolivia failed. Once you stop waiting for "the collapse" and realize it's already an ongoing process a lot of things become clearer. There is already an increased in SA Fascist Nationalism in the Anglosphere, and has been for a long while.
I agree with this, but I am hedging to see what actually occurs during the next major financial crisis, which is likely due either this year or next year. I mean, 'the collapse' is happening, but there are still levers the U.S. can pull if they were not ideologically inclined against it. What is intriguing is the use of MMT by the Biden admin, but it is once again not being used to retrain and invest in the labor capital required to sustainablly run the interior of the country. If something actually changes there, 'the collapse' might turn into stabilization, which again changes the dynamic with SA.
I think the time for MMT is rapidly passing by anyway, as the world experiences dedollarization and the collapse of the petrodollar doing MMT becomes substantially more difficult when the USD is not the reserve currency. We certainly live in interesting times.
Yeah, agreed, the right time to do things was a decade ago, but like with the U.S.'s tariffs on China they are consistently a day late and a dollar short with their plans and solutions. History is always moving, but I think the failure of America to contain COVID provided a test case for countries looking to test the limits of the chain. After all, if what the 'experts' said about America's ability to contain a pandemic were wrong, what else is a bluff?
Not that I really want to see this country succeed, but it would be nice to see things get less bleak for the working class in the U.S.