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Tangent, feel free to downvote but I want to (lightly) rant.

We're finally pulling the copper from the walls.

I don't think we're imminently about to fall to fascism but I see the UK about 50 paces down the path from us wrt gutting public services and investment in any kind of future that operates better than today.

Our country voted for this, eyes wide open. This ain't a fluke.

[WorldPeas]

One has to wonder if this is the outcome of generational wealth becoming too entrenched. At a certain point billionaires aren't interested in generative activity, rather they're interested in preservation of what they have.

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Behaviorally advanced structures of capital will try to entrench themselves (and have, see Standard Oil, Bell et. al.) but what I'm most confused by is the consent of the people for it today.

People voted for Tax Cuts for Billionaires and apparently the dismantling of the administrative state. At this point I feel like a different species from my countrymen on issues of the state. Funny thing is, I work with and talk to Trumpy people often enough and the ones I know are usually pretty on top of things in person. How does my contractor who has good sense in construction, family life etc. run around with a Trump sticker on his car? What does he think is happening? What am I missing?

[WorldPeas]

I wrote about three paragraphs and then I stopped myself (I guess I'm a reasoning model), it's basically 3 things:

1.) The collapse of news networks/mainstream discourse after the pandemic led to further silo-ing of interests and politics

2.) Public perception that Democrats lost their Jon Stewart-esque libertine attitudes and that they're stodgy and judging, that they don't know how to market to people now who want "caught in the act/hidden camera" salacious stuff, they only know how to litigate it afterwards with reports and trials

3.) Oct. 7 is a big one I don't see cited a lot, while most people I know don't know about it, it's caused an internal division in the Democratic party of a magnitude that I've never seen before.