(Posted to FB by Anthony DiMaggio.)
Today is the day I get to be the unceremonial wet towel for all my
liberal friends who are breathing (understandably) a sigh of relief now
that the malignant narcissistic, wannabe fascist, has been defeated.
This was never really about Trump. This nation is teetering on the brink
of disaster and collapse, between the mounting climate crisis, a broken
economy, and the Covid crisis. But the failure to respond to these
challenges is a product of a longstanding dysfunctional political
culture that's been building for years (decades). It's going to take
years to climb out from under this mess, if we are able to do it at all.
And one major problem is that we have a fundamentally broken political
system. We now have a White House populated by relatively sane competent
neoliberal managers who are not going to put forward an agenda (without
mass pressure) to combat the defining challenges of our time, including
record inequality, ecological devastation, and rampant racism and white
supremacy, among countless other problems. The other political party has
totally abdicated when it comes to any notions of responsible
governance. The cuckoo birds have taken it over, and it is now dominated
by conspiratorialism, white supremacy, militant anti-science, and
authoritarian/ascendant fascist politics. A country can't survive with
that sort of status quo moving into the future. It's totally
unsustainable and is going to end in disaster. We have to keep this in
mind, as we hear calls to "get past" our differences with white
nationalist enablers, conspiratorial Qanon sympathatizers, and climate
change flat earthers. And the pathological notion, held by at least a
third of the public (those infamous non-voters), that we can now get
past politics after election day and sweep everything that's happened in
the last four years under the rug needs to be rejected outright. We
desperately need a real progressive mass movement. And that's not going
to be built by ignoring the dual threats of rising reactionary extremism
and pathological apoliticism. The rest of the world knows the U.S. is
one election away from a return of the cuckoo birds to power. The sooner
we join the rest of the world in recognizing the horrific threats, the
better.
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