First of all, fusion? The technology that doesn't even properly exist yet?
Second, both Trump and everyone else around the US government does have close ties to the pharmaceutical lobby, as well as the fossil fuel lobbies. And the majority of his supporters have severe brain worms and they think that M4A and renewables are evil communism.
Like, it just doesn't make any sense for him to pivot. EVEN if it went over well with his support, that's not all that matters. People in power always have to look at the long term consequences of what they are doing. It is dangerous for the American status quo if suddenly both parties just opened up stuff like public healthcare, renewable energy, expanding welfare, and various working class demands for discussion, claimed to support these things, and then never passed them anyways. They don't want to be doing that.
That's the great thing about it - it doesn't yet exist. So the state can shovel more corporate welfare to companies (and most of the time it's the very same oil and gas companies, as well as the MIC corporations) under the pretext that they'll now finally roll up their sleeves and start developing fusion for real. Even if takes decades and nothing comes out of it, no one will remember. The same with denouncing regime change ops and wars - it makes for a nice populist sound bite while the alphabet agencies can keep doing their stuff in the shadows. Remember Obama? So many promises - all of them broken. Did it make the situation any more dangerous for the status quo? Nope, they're raking in record profits, capitalist realism rules the day even stronger than before and the wealth disparity just keeps soaring. You have too much faith in the general public getting outraged at hypocrisy and lies. Even in past situations where people had it good and had their material comfort yanked out from them overnight the vast majority just bowed their heads to the new bleak reality.
But Obama can promise these things because the republicans exist, and then tm they can just say "we wanted these things, but the republicans didn't". The republicans can't do that because the Democrats already supposedly want them.
First of all, fusion? The technology that doesn't even properly exist yet?
Second, both Trump and everyone else around the US government does have close ties to the pharmaceutical lobby, as well as the fossil fuel lobbies. And the majority of his supporters have severe brain worms and they think that M4A and renewables are evil communism.
Like, it just doesn't make any sense for him to pivot. EVEN if it went over well with his support, that's not all that matters. People in power always have to look at the long term consequences of what they are doing. It is dangerous for the American status quo if suddenly both parties just opened up stuff like public healthcare, renewable energy, expanding welfare, and various working class demands for discussion, claimed to support these things, and then never passed them anyways. They don't want to be doing that.
That's the great thing about it - it doesn't yet exist. So the state can shovel more corporate welfare to companies (and most of the time it's the very same oil and gas companies, as well as the MIC corporations) under the pretext that they'll now finally roll up their sleeves and start developing fusion for real. Even if takes decades and nothing comes out of it, no one will remember. The same with denouncing regime change ops and wars - it makes for a nice populist sound bite while the alphabet agencies can keep doing their stuff in the shadows. Remember Obama? So many promises - all of them broken. Did it make the situation any more dangerous for the status quo? Nope, they're raking in record profits, capitalist realism rules the day even stronger than before and the wealth disparity just keeps soaring. You have too much faith in the general public getting outraged at hypocrisy and lies. Even in past situations where people had it good and had their material comfort yanked out from them overnight the vast majority just bowed their heads to the new bleak reality.
But Obama can promise these things because the republicans exist, and then tm they can just say "we wanted these things, but the republicans didn't". The republicans can't do that because the Democrats already supposedly want them.