Again, the question is what is the anything you want to fix. Where is your milestone? You want the morons with guns off the street, sure, assuming the Thiel machine catches some rocks in its cogs and there’s going to be elections, you ride it out for three more years, by some miracle Musk doesn’t steal the election again and bing bang boom, you have it fixed. And by fixed, we mean you gently escorted the problem back into the bottle and loosely popped in the cork. The root causes - oligarchic big tech, hostile SCOTUS, far-right thinktank, misinformation centrals - are still there. For all intents and purposes, it’s not like this anymore, but it’s actually still like this, it’s just quieter for a couple of years.
There have been many different eras in America, and although the current one is terrible, there will be another, one way or another.
When you see America as being a single static thing, you view it as an unchanging monolith that has never had periods of time where elements of it were better – making it so that the only choice you have is to “love it, or leave it”.
But these are faulty views, and that is a false dichotomy. We are participants in the history of the country, not merely spectators. Through collective action we can change its direction. We did this before via blood, sweat, and tears in the first gilded age, and we will have to do it again here in the second.
See, this is the problem with pretending that things were always like this, it makes it so that you think it’s impossible to ever fix anything.
Again, the question is what is the anything you want to fix. Where is your milestone? You want the morons with guns off the street, sure, assuming the Thiel machine catches some rocks in its cogs and there’s going to be elections, you ride it out for three more years, by some miracle Musk doesn’t steal the election again and bing bang boom, you have it fixed. And by fixed, we mean you gently escorted the problem back into the bottle and loosely popped in the cork. The root causes - oligarchic big tech, hostile SCOTUS, far-right thinktank, misinformation centrals - are still there. For all intents and purposes, it’s not like this anymore, but it’s actually still like this, it’s just quieter for a couple of years.
There have been many different eras in America, and although the current one is terrible, there will be another, one way or another.
When you see America as being a single static thing, you view it as an unchanging monolith that has never had periods of time where elements of it were better – making it so that the only choice you have is to “love it, or leave it”.
But these are faulty views, and that is a false dichotomy. We are participants in the history of the country, not merely spectators. Through collective action we can change its direction. We did this before via blood, sweat, and tears in the first gilded age, and we will have to do it again here in the second.