Morning, Threaders, Threadheads, and all in between.
Hot black coffee.
Chaos.
I believe chaos has been the objective of the puppeteers for so long they don’t realize yet it’s all they are getting. Chaos as a strategy only works in furtherance of concrete gains when it can be crushed after it served its purpose. I don’t think it will.
Though the orange turd first term was marked by some chaotic circumstances there were still some guardrails and some sort of smart people who tried to maintain order to an extent. This time there will be a sea of turds in charge and their idea of order is to deport 20 million people and somehow control 300 million others. Good luck with that. We are not Nazi Germany or North Korea and we certainly are not Iran. Plus, the lunatics at the head of the asylum are real.
Their Project 2025 is not brilliant; it’s a wish list made by some presumptuous assholes who believe there’s enough like minded people with half a brain to implement it. There really isn’t. We will watch the attempt to dismantle the existing social system by dimwits who have no clue how to put a functioning one together. Just like with the ACA their stupidity will drive them (and many of us) off the cliff. Chaos is their only mantra. I expect lots of it.
Deporting 20 million people, most of whom are essential for the preservation of our society as part of its workforce in essential areas, like construction and agriculture, would work just great if they could replace it by another large group of existing people who can do those jobs, say by reinstating forced cheap labor, aka slavery, and though that’s a solution it is just not going to happen.
Controlling 300 million people, many of them armed to the teeth, is a nightmare when the ideas they wish to impose are irrational, not popular when implemented, and based on the worst humankind has to offer. No matter how racist, misogynistic or ignorant the people are they will not like being taken apart limb by limb. It’s not a feel good sensation. Of course, like all authoritarian regimes, the goal is totalitarianism. Good luck with that in a country this big.
As I mentioned yesterday, fascism requires the military to become its iron fist, not abroad but at home. It’s the only path to totalitarianism and it worked in the early to mid XX century in selected places with the planing AND high level execution provided by people who had much more than half a brain. Those conditions will never be replicated. Order of that magnitude requires not just chaos as precondition.
It requires a near extinction level event. It’s not enough that 75% of the population have the brains of a twelve year old when there are 250 million of twelve year olds running around. It’s just overwhelming. It just can’t be done. Add to this the reality of the era we live in. Only an electromagnetic pulse of continental proportions would prevent us from knowing the horrors to come as a result of this attempt to establish Project 2025 as our world.
Again, another kind of extinction level event. Leveling the ground when the ground is so vast and submitting a people when they are so many would not only require removing all sources of present day information but cutting population numbers drastically. Neither of those things will happen. To be honest, the best chance these fascist wannabes have to succeed is if a large meteor hits us. And that’s not happening either.
Are these good news? Well, if you think chaos is something to look forward to, yes. Other than that it’s not reassuring. The danger we face today of losing our democracy and living in an authoritarian system comes from our own acceptance of it. That’s the OTHER way this attempt to end our world can work: if we give it up willingly. If those of us who still can think and research and reason lose hope and start cooperating in the settling down of the 12 year olds instead of teaching them.
If that happens there will be no need for an iron fist. No one will need to take your freedom if you willingly surrender it. No one will need to silence you if you don’t speak. This is why, not referring to the election, I said I am over the steps of grief. They end in acceptance. The only way this chaos can turn into real fascism is if you accept it. And the meteor, of course. And don’t think for a minute that when we recover from this it will be over.
Don’t be fooled into thinking once these dipshits are forced back into their caves and under their rocks it will be okay. There are plenty of brains among the ones who have for decades become our most dangerous foe and the true obstacle to progress: the oligarchs. We may not devolve into a fascist state but we may well become a full fledge oligarchy like Russia did. With elections and all.
Once it becomes apparent to these few people in the shadows their puppets are too stupid to pull this new order off some of them will “help us” to go back to “normal”. Some of them already have and even sided with us to prevent the crazies from reaching power. Don’t let them fool you. The objectives are still the same: remove from politics the obstacles preventing progress: religion, money and ignorance. We will live in chaos for a while but not too long, I hope.
Brace yourselves. Stay safe. Stay together and resist as best you can. Never believe the only way out of the chaos about to start is acceptance. Acceptance is the end. Nothing is lost in the world today if you refuse to give it away. So refuse; resist; do not allow it to happen. There will be no meteor hitting us and everything else that needs to happen to subdue a nation of 330 million souls is not happening either. Unless you let it happen. Don’t.
