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- california@lemmy.world
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- california@lemmy.world
On June 23, Gov. Gavin Newsom had a scheduled call with Mark Lashier, the chief executive of Phillips 66 — months after the oil giant announced it would shut down a major Los Angeles refinery following the governor’s signing of new regulations on oil and gas facilities as he pushed to end California’s reliance on fossil fuels.
Within days, Newsom’s administration pivoted
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Newsom is himself quite wealthy and his extended family has more money than most of these influencers.
If he was taken out if the current political situation and compared to most American politicians, over the last two centuries, he would be far right business interests.
We should not forget that Drump was a member of the Democratic Party for eight years.
As a European, I can only observe how absurd the US system is, how ruthlessly it exploits its citizens, compared to what we take for granted here.
I also notice the people who insist that the Democrats are the solution, even though they so obviously are not. I am aware of the despair of US citizens, their powerlessness in the face of institutional exploitation. For a long time, it looked as if this absurd misery would spread to us in Europe without any need - and it still does. But we here in Europe can almost be grateful that the US has now completely fallen into the clutches of fascism, because this makes it clear even to some the brainwashed people how inhumane the US system really is, that there is nothing desirable about it, but that it is synonymous with nothing but oppression and tyranny - at last, the narrative of freedom, which is actually nothing but bondage, has been demystified, at last people can wake up and see the American dream for what it is: a nightmare with no awakening.
This is proven by the fact that “woke” is used in the US as a battle cry against anyone who refuses to accept that they are disadvantaged, that they are aware of the slavery that is US ideology.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is contradicted by the fact that the head of state of the US is an orange-colored child molester. Even the heavily redacted documents that are public leave no doubt about this - on the contrary, they show how absurdly corrupt this system is and how blatantly it tramples on what any halfway decent person would call justice.
Nevertheless, just to be on the safe side: go vote and vote for the Democrats in the midterms - not voting and not voting for the Democrats would be the stupidest thing you could do, even in this system. Not voting for the Democrats despite the corruption will surely lead to dictatorship - and the current regime is illustrating what that means with its repressive measures, which are still harmless on comparison.
The only other option would be for the population to rise up en masse, but the US does not seem capable of this, as evidenced by the fact that things are the way they are.
The USA is doomed to spend some time having increasing anarchy and lawlessness, and I think will continue to do so for a few decades. Sometimes it will get better, but overall things will get worse.
What we are seeing now is merely the most recent symptom of the beginning of the decline. But there is no political or any other solution except some individual states and communities doing their things.
You mean tyranny, not anarchy. But I agree with you: the US is beyond saving. However, this is not a decline, but nothin than the logical consequence of the apathy of the population.
The US is (still, but for not much longer) the richest country in the world. Violence against the population as practiced in dictatorships has yet to be established here, which is what is happening at the moment, and yet the population remains largely paralyzed. One only has to consider the events in Iran these days to realize how utterly short-sighted this actually is.
Not tyrany so much as an erosion of laws and diminishing federal oversight. It will become, I think, difficult to think of the USA as a single political entity rather than a thing that oozes like slime
Sure, this year it seems like tyranny will happen, but the democrats and republicans will still win alternately in the next few decades . Most of the bad stuff that will happen in the near future is not dramatic political events but hunger and disease, suffering not covered by news outlets
