Or any corpo bribe taking politician for that matter, nearly all of them in both parties at the federal level.
In the US, selfishness is a requisite for success. Living an ethical, empathetic life in the United States is a fast track to dying of exposure in a cardboard box under a freeway.
He's a narcissist. A true, clinical narcissist with NPD, not just a selfish fuck with narcissistic tendancies as most Americans have been indoctrinated/propagandized/miseducated/deluded to be so as to be optimal consumers.
As such, he truly believes the world, all of humanity, and the entirety of all existence only ever mattered as a function of bringing him, Donald Trump, into being and facilitating his divine grandeur, and can't ever matter again once he's gone.
This country was irrevocably destroyed and dead as of November... 1979.
Honestly it's kind of refreshing that meaningful numbers of people are finally acknowledging that this is just the vultures picking on the long dead corpse of the US instead of continuing to buy stupid shit, medicating, and otherwise playing pretend we were still a nation of laws and democratic representation.
Can we finally, finally destroy the capital markets that turned us into an oligarch exploitation camp for half a century and make something new with an avarice punishing framework in its place now? Or do we need to wait for the new low the capitalists bring us to next week, and the one after that, and the one after that...
I loathe voting for neoliberals. I'm fully aware it's harm reduction and this ship has been sinking under Neoliberals and Fascists since Reagan converted his former opposition to the corpo take into today. I haven't had a candidate to vote for in a general election in my entire life. I'm 40. Yes Ive volunteered in primaries for a better path.
But I did eat the rancid shit and vote neoliberal every time, because affirmation ribbons you can't eat or live inside are still better than scapegoats. I hated voting for Kerry, Obama, Clinton, Biden, and Harris, but I took my medicine and did it with a funeral dirge in my heart telling myself it's better that less people get hurt than more. The ship has been sinking my entire voting life regardless of party, but it's been crystal clear it sinks faster under fascists than neoliberals. Something something to that starfish it mattered.
The people that could vote for Harris but didn't can get fucked right along with the Trump voters as far as I'm concerned. My empathy is reserved for people too young to vote and people who voted against this.
Willful ignorance about your own society and governance is no excuse. "Teehee I'm not political I'm keeping up with the Kardashians/stupid sports GAMES" means you didnt care about anyone else, feel free to diaf.
As he has for most of his bankruptcy laden past, he's largely playing with other people's lives. He'll be fine, and he enjoys inflicting cruelty on others for its own sake when he "loses."
It's a shame we don't have a competent left in the US. This is an opportunity.
As Republican voters have been turned into easily deluded suckers unable to think critically or act in their own interests, now would be the perfect time to capitalize on that and turn them against the core rot of our society: unrestrained capitalism. That's why we have Trump to begin with.
"Look, the capital markets are anti MAGA! The capital markets must be destroyed, if you disagree you have Trump derangement syndrome! Capitalism is revealed as a woke leftist plot to discredit GodEmperorDaddyTrump!"
The capitalists defunded education for decades to cut their own taxes despite profiting from a literate workforce pool, and pushed profit friendly lies through for profit media and captured government pulpits. The capitalists made this drooling army of rage zombies that is the Republican base. They don't know which way is up. They might not be doing it for the right reasons, but this is a magic moment where the monsters could be given a nudge to turn on their oligarch creators.
🇺🇸WALL STREET IS ANTI MAGA! BAN CAPITAL MARKETS! THE DOW JONES IS A WOKE LEFTIST PLOT TO TURN YOUR KIDS GAY OR SOMETHING! FAILING TO BEAT UP AND DEPORT EVERY CAPITAL TRADER AND LARGE INVESTOR ON WALL STREET IS TRUMP DERANGMENT SYNDROME!🇺🇸
I think you're confusing misanthropy based on the data with eco-fascism. Eco-fascists want to destroy heavy industry attempting to save humanity from itself. I'm saying we aren't worth saving, and the earth doesn't need saving from us because it has a mechanism to deal with us.
It isn't advocating violence, and therefore isn't fascism of any stripe, to acknowledge the reality that we are subject to our habitat, not the other way around. Our species has lost respect for the very ground beneath our feet, and we aren't the first problematic mutation that altered the climate that the planet had to correct for. See the trees of the carboniferous period. We're merely the first species that had the agency not to, but chose to anyway.
You might want to look at your biases if you think there's a dirty accusation to be thrown for anything less than rah rah homosapiens! That's just base tribalism.
Palestine was genocided by fascists, who won, and are winning elsewhere.
I think I've just switched sides, I'm on team climate change extinction. We inflict cruelty on all other life on this planet... And OURSELVES. Literally no one is happy, even the capitalists who are most responsible for human misery trying to fill the black hole in their chests with ever moar capital, even they can't be made happy in victory as they'll never have enough.
Earth needs to shake us off its back for the sake of terrestrial life. To put it in terms the rest of my species understands, we're a liability to the larger organization, and bring no redeeming value to the planet. As such, we should be summarily terminated.
Oh just like how the American private health insurer confidence scheme seeks the death penalty when their customers marks actually need life saving healthcare and become a threat to the capitalist's quarterly metastasis expectations.
Especially the type that Trump attracts.
Or any corpo bribe taking politician for that matter, nearly all of them in both parties at the federal level.
In the US, selfishness is a requisite for success. Living an ethical, empathetic life in the United States is a fast track to dying of exposure in a cardboard box under a freeway.