> > Is the US teetering on the brink of a fascist coup? No, it’s not .... >
Specifically, the MAGA danger lies less in the likelihood of fascism--Ron DeSantis to one side for the moment--than it does in the potential collapse of what is too unironically referred to by liberals as "our democracy." January 6th illustrates among other things the utter and instinctive contempt in which Congress is held by millions of Americans. The disgruntlement of generals like Milley and Trump's pet generals could lead under ideal circumstances to a military coup against a nominally fascist not-quite-elected elected leader--in order "to rescue the constitution." It's by no means inevitable that unsepeakale nonhuman filth DeSantis and other shitbird fascists who have no right to dwell among us (with the Tomi Laurens that adore them) would emerge unscathed from this. But despite all-American jabbering moronism of the unending and half-baked comparisons of the current US situation both with the collapse of governance in Rome in the first century BC and the much later Fall of Rome--which most American knows-it-alls and wiseass Boy Geniuses of the left and right conflate willy-nilly and then get mixed up with the rise and fall of the Third Reich--the rigidity of the US constitution and the insane gaps in its coverage creates a great potential for collapse by no means limited to the "classic" scenarios under which Trump, DeSantis, Hawley, the militias and Satan Herself create a Fourth Reich on American soil. What's remarkable is how little right-wing "terrorism" has succeeded in promoting organized mass murder in an organized way for political purposes. The antihuman murder campaign of the police, whom Joe Biden and all the liberals now love more than life itself, is a different animal from the baying mobs of stormtroopers and SS that some people keep conjuring up. This is a complex subject. I'm not suggested that the nightmare of "right-wing violence" is a mere chimera, but the reality is that a decisive change for the worse in American governance is not only possible but even probable under a much milder and superficially more rational guise. The political category of "violent extremism" does not by any means describe one great menace that "democracy" must resist by all available means. IMO, a very great menace is the US Constitution itself, which is a patchwork of holes and internal contradictions, many of which were found by Trump and his allied turds as they flowed downhill to the great sewer. We owe much of the present danger, IMO, to the vastly overrated Floundering Bothers, whose failed legacy will have to be replaced in one way or another sooner or later. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9519): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9519 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83804862/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
