The entrenched neoliberal post-Cold War consensus is cracking up.
But anyone who told you that the Reagan Era global order wasn’t authoritarian sold you a box of rocks.
Upper middle class Americans are getting a taste of life outside the bubble. This is what “democracy” has felt like in The Philippines and Brazil and Ferguson, MO for some time.
They are using their essentially bottomless pit of money, influence, and resources to shape a world where they are permanently definitively on top.
When were they not? Do you think the folks fucking kids on Epstein’s Island twenty years ago weren’t doing the exact same thing?
When you snip away the social safety net, drop the illusions of “friendly neighborhood police officer”, and abandon any effort at mitigating the ecological consequences of capitalist expansion, this is what you get.
The entrenched neoliberal post-Cold War consensus is cracking up.
But anyone who told you that the Reagan Era global order wasn’t authoritarian sold you a box of rocks.
Upper middle class Americans are getting a taste of life outside the bubble. This is what “democracy” has felt like in The Philippines and Brazil and Ferguson, MO for some time.
When were they not? Do you think the folks fucking kids on Epstein’s Island twenty years ago weren’t doing the exact same thing?
When you snip away the social safety net, drop the illusions of “friendly neighborhood police officer”, and abandon any effort at mitigating the ecological consequences of capitalist expansion, this is what you get.