What you write puts into words what I have been feeling recently. Initially this spinning top of Republican governance was tearing asunder US institutions. But it has quickly evolved into threatening the world beyond our shores. Republican governance has maniacally transformed into believing it does rule the world, which we know it does not. There will be little tolerance worldwide to be governed by and dictated to by an incoherent USA (Republican governance.) It is those outside forces that will set limits which will eventually blow the Republican governance apart. What is so unsettling for me is what the time frame will be, how much detonation power there will be, and how damaged the USA will be as we come out the other end. We are in the wind up faze, about to see the big bang.
This is incoherent BS. There isn't going to be a next election, or the MAGAs will just overturn the results. We are in for a fight, one that the guys with the guns are going to win. Until global warming and pandemics and famines and economic catastrophes eat them up too. Good-bye to our safe, sane, predictable world. Hello darkness.
Your diagnosis is spot on. However, the end game remains elusive because it assumes there is some level of democratic responsiveness that will remain that would allow for corrective measures to prevail. I’m not so sure that is accurate.
It’s very possible that it just continues to devolve into extreme brutishness and incompetence with goons in the streets to enforce it at home with Democrats remaining ineffective and a pliant military to enforce blockades for harm and hoped for plunder internationally.
Of course this behavior could trigger a series of wars, hot, cold, financial and trade that will accelerate the decline even faster and throw in other currently unknown variables that scramble the equation in ways we can’t anticipate.
The spinning top analogy nails it. I've watched so many people get frustrated trying to "persuade" their way through a system that's already past the point where persuasion matters. The shift from "what do we want" to "who screws up less" explains why every election feels both inevitable and unpredictable at the same time, like we're all just waiting to see which side trips first.
What you write puts into words what I have been feeling recently. Initially this spinning top of Republican governance was tearing asunder US institutions. But it has quickly evolved into threatening the world beyond our shores. Republican governance has maniacally transformed into believing it does rule the world, which we know it does not. There will be little tolerance worldwide to be governed by and dictated to by an incoherent USA (Republican governance.) It is those outside forces that will set limits which will eventually blow the Republican governance apart. What is so unsettling for me is what the time frame will be, how much detonation power there will be, and how damaged the USA will be as we come out the other end. We are in the wind up faze, about to see the big bang.
This is incoherent BS. There isn't going to be a next election, or the MAGAs will just overturn the results. We are in for a fight, one that the guys with the guns are going to win. Until global warming and pandemics and famines and economic catastrophes eat them up too. Good-bye to our safe, sane, predictable world. Hello darkness.
I'm going to take this as a sober counter argument to what I wrote here...
https://danriley2.substack.com/p/moderation-in-pursuit-of-justice?r=1lxecq
Your diagnosis is spot on. However, the end game remains elusive because it assumes there is some level of democratic responsiveness that will remain that would allow for corrective measures to prevail. I’m not so sure that is accurate.
It’s very possible that it just continues to devolve into extreme brutishness and incompetence with goons in the streets to enforce it at home with Democrats remaining ineffective and a pliant military to enforce blockades for harm and hoped for plunder internationally.
Of course this behavior could trigger a series of wars, hot, cold, financial and trade that will accelerate the decline even faster and throw in other currently unknown variables that scramble the equation in ways we can’t anticipate.
The spinning top analogy nails it. I've watched so many people get frustrated trying to "persuade" their way through a system that's already past the point where persuasion matters. The shift from "what do we want" to "who screws up less" explains why every election feels both inevitable and unpredictable at the same time, like we're all just waiting to see which side trips first.