Looking for a succinct primer for those politically disengaged folks who are tuning out because "both sides have gotten so mean". Obviously the contradictions are heightening but how do you ease in a materialist perspective when someone is already so exhausted by "bias"
Yep American politicians all pretty much agree on our underlying fascist/neoliberal ideology (they are functionally the same thing to different degrees). What we are seeing is simply the recriminations of losers. When an elite class sees its power slipping away they start to turn on each other and eat each other for the shrinking scraps. The exact division lines among that elite class aren’t particularly relevant, it’s just how the recriminations happened to play out when there’s not enough abundant wealth to paper over all disagreements