Wonder where these people are getting their inspiration? Or is it just a big fat coincidence?
https://eblnews.com/video/white-nationalists-running-office-record-numbers-419359
Inverted totalitarianism. Totalitarianism hidden by corporate power, where politicians are bought and paid for in order for the oligarchs who own and operate those corporations to write laws favoring their own families and friends over everyone else.
There are two ways out. Only one is actually positive.
1. Believe what the Strongman says, while sitting back and letting him do it all. Which, of course, is just a ruse to change the system from an oligarchy to an aristocracy. In essence, the last vestiges of government oversight is destroyed, so that the owners are the only ones who can make changes.
2. Take part in changing the system from within by staying informed, spreading information, and voting in the people who may not want to do a total 180, but are at least willing to keep the governmental and societal levers functional, which allow for future changes, however slow they might occur.
White nationalists, d/b/a faux populists, are one side of the coin. Option 1. They aren't going to make anything work right, but they'll make sure that a select class of people are able to function while everyone else is left out in the cold. Capitalism->Fascism->Oligarchy->Aristocracy/Neo-feudalism.
Establishment libruuls, who may be inherently neo-conservative because that's the way government has operated since the mid-70s, are the other option. They sure as shit aren't going to pull all the levers and do a 180 to course-correct once elected, but they'll at least keep those levers functional through typical maintenance.
Trump expertly dismisses the "elites" who are essentially status-quo enablers, on BothSides™ of the political spectrum. The problem, is that he isn't going to actually fix anything, as much as cement in the current right-wing trend of destroying "government
of the people by the people for the people" so that the people with all of the rest of the power in society can just rule, outright.
This explains conservative criticism that the Democratic party is going to fix things for the working class and middle class, and their capture by the wealthy. Which is true. It also explains why the Democratic party itself is currently in the middle of fighting between neoconservative establishment candidates, and social democracy candidates like Warren, Sanders, etc.
It does not, though, mean that BothSidesDoIt™. Yes, both political parties are captured by wealth. But one isn't loudly and proudly announcing that if elected, will destroy the last vestiges of government constraint on wealth. No, they won't solve every problem. See: Obama, 2009-2017. But, they also aren't going to burn the government, and the country, down to the ground to extract just a little more profit for their wealthy handlers.
Could this be their coming out of the closet moment? Perhaps they got tired of hiding under white hoods and sheets.
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