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>>19687279
>>19687252

We should not think it in terms of left and right as it really doesn't fit the complexity of the conflict

What we have currently is a state run by corporate interests, this much is obvious. The professional class is running both. Their ideology trickles down to the middle managers (corporate VPs, teaching assistants) and foot soldiers (twitters users, fact checkers.) The people who exists outside of this paradigm (rural folk, entrepreneurs, independent thinkers, extremely rich/poor, boomers, believers in the founding fathers and classic American shibboleths) are a perceived threat because they are not under that social-tech-professional control.

It's how the the professional class rules and subjugates. We've seen the public firings, the grandstanding, misuse of government resources, censorship, puff pieces, it's all of it. Their influence is everywhere where a power slice of the pie is to be had by someone with a degree.

So let's talk about a Civil War. When the professional class reaches the limits of what is tenable in a constitutionally governed and civil society, they will goad and poke and prod until a violent conflict exists (a la intelligence agencies.) The media will play its role, the corporations will throw money at it, the swampy generals will make the obvious moves, the history books will be rewritten and the Constitution will be no more.

There's the playbook. Your American Caesar is fucking Lincoln with a PhD.

Is life in the USA really shittier than it was last year? I feel a great void and see despair in the future.

COVID hangover maybe, but things seem to be getting worse rapidly.