Opposition party? We shouldn’t even need one of those. To me, a sane, educated, and healthy society with a legitimately working legal and justice system should never fall to fascism. Period. There should be too many checks and balances in place to allow greed and oligarchy to settle in while rights get whittled away. Unfortunately, the US is neither sane, educated, or healthy and that directly effects the leadership we’ve chosen to elect. So, now we reap the non existent benefits we’ve sowed through cynicism, apathy, and bigotry. It isn’t about right or left or some bullshit political or economic spectrum anymore. It is about whether you want to live in an absurd world or not. Unfortunately, those of us that want to live in a more progressive, less absurd world are the counterculture now, but instead of getting our message out through the media, music, literature, and other means it seems our voices are slowly but surely being quieted. We’ve got a major uphill battle ahead.
To me, a sane, educated, and healthy society with a legitimately working legal and justice system should never fall to fascism.
That’s not really how it works. Fascism doesn’t arise out of a lack of those things, it arises because of the capitalist drive for endless growth encountering the tendency of the rate of profit to fall as economies become more developed. When there isn’t a lot of room to grow, fascism presents a solution in the form of artificial growth through cannibalizing minority businesses. As this cannibalism continues, the definition of the in-group continuously narrows to ensure there’s always a target.
No matter how many checks and balances there are or how well functioning the system is, the material pressures will eventually overwhelm it, and there will either be nationalizations to remove the profit motive from already developed industries and remove the pressure, or there will be enshittification, economic cannibalism, and fascism. “Socialism or barbarism.”
Systems only matter to the extent that people with guns say they do. We have a check on the sorts of things Trump is doing, SCOTUS ruled that he has to return a prisoner sent to El Salvador, and he’s just opted to ignore it. And it turns out he can just do that even though it’s illegal because SCOTUS doesn’t have guns and the people who do have guns don’t care.
Opposition party? We shouldn’t even need one of those. To me, a sane, educated, and healthy society with a legitimately working legal and justice system should never fall to fascism. Period. There should be too many checks and balances in place to allow greed and oligarchy to settle in while rights get whittled away. Unfortunately, the US is neither sane, educated, or healthy and that directly effects the leadership we’ve chosen to elect. So, now we reap the non existent benefits we’ve sowed through cynicism, apathy, and bigotry. It isn’t about right or left or some bullshit political or economic spectrum anymore. It is about whether you want to live in an absurd world or not. Unfortunately, those of us that want to live in a more progressive, less absurd world are the counterculture now, but instead of getting our message out through the media, music, literature, and other means it seems our voices are slowly but surely being quieted. We’ve got a major uphill battle ahead.
That’s not really how it works. Fascism doesn’t arise out of a lack of those things, it arises because of the capitalist drive for endless growth encountering the tendency of the rate of profit to fall as economies become more developed. When there isn’t a lot of room to grow, fascism presents a solution in the form of artificial growth through cannibalizing minority businesses. As this cannibalism continues, the definition of the in-group continuously narrows to ensure there’s always a target.
No matter how many checks and balances there are or how well functioning the system is, the material pressures will eventually overwhelm it, and there will either be nationalizations to remove the profit motive from already developed industries and remove the pressure, or there will be enshittification, economic cannibalism, and fascism. “Socialism or barbarism.”
Systems only matter to the extent that people with guns say they do. We have a check on the sorts of things Trump is doing, SCOTUS ruled that he has to return a prisoner sent to El Salvador, and he’s just opted to ignore it. And it turns out he can just do that even though it’s illegal because SCOTUS doesn’t have guns and the people who do have guns don’t care.
Well we have opposition parties, one wants free healthcare and the other wants to kill trans people.
You should probably figure out why people think one of those things need to be opposed.
One wants to arrest people and take away their education for protesting against genocide, the other wants to deport them to death camps for it.
Just because one is clearly much worse doesn’t mean that either is acceptable.
I agree no more Duopoly
The parties available are all opposition parties.