In Ancient Rome, every election was attended by gang warfare and blood on the streets spilled by the competing factions. Candidates were assassinated, and elections triggered civil wars — as in capitalism. Every election was a political revolution. This is still the case, and it shows. The bug is a feature; the glitch is the algorithm; the noise is the music — of democracy. It is a Gesamtkunstwerk — but not necessarily a Götterdämmerung. Especially in the U.S., which is a continuation of the original American Revolution. Vivek Ramaswamy called for reinvigorating the spirit of 1776: he sees that in Trump.
The answer proposed by Trump’s traumatized opponents is to suspend rights and avoid election: to cancel liberalism and democracy; to ban the opera and imprison its diva. This is no exaggeration. They have done and will do everything they possibly can to try preventing Trump’s election and taking office, in a most remarkable series of events in the history of the U.S. Neither Trump and his supporters nor his opponents are wrong in saying that the fate of American democracy is on the line. The only question is what this says and what it means. Are we afraid to learn? We have yet to figure it out.
Trump and Trumpism are not going away, whatever we might wish. The task of politics remains — even and perhaps especially in the crisis of capitalist politics. It points the way to socialist politics, from the very heart of liberal democracy in crisis. Without a political party for socialism, this is the — very best — politics capitalism has to offer. Are we afraid of it?
Why not Trump, again? — Chris Cutrone
in PR #166 May 2024
The Platypus Affiliated Society – Why not Trump, again?
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IDENTIFY STRONGLY WITH the wrongly accused. So does America more broadly. And Trump has been wrongly accused. If you are in the right, then there is no need to lie. And they have lied about Trump.
"...shouldn’t be allowed to run...If they win it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. In that situation, we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and, ultimately, a criminal trial. It would grind government to a halt.”
Meanwhile, in the real world:Dems will push hard to abolish anonymous voting on the pretext of giving Republicans the safeguards against vote rigging.
Meanwhile, in the real world:
He's literally telling his supporters they won't need to vote ever again if he wins in November, because "it'll be fixed" - but sure, you'd have to be cRaZy to think he was talking about ending democracy in the US or anything. 🤪🤪🤪🤪Ooh, my first taker for my £100 wager. Looking forward to collecting.
P.S. I've got that tinfoil hat you ordered, size XS as you so vociferously insisted upon!
Stop being weird. He's not literally doing that at all, you hysterical nincompoop. I've spent that £100 in my mind already.He's literally telling his supporters they won't need to vote ever again if he wins in November, because "it'll be fixed" - but sure, you'd have to be cRaZy to think he was talking about ending democracy in the US or anything. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
He's not literally saying what he's literally saying? Got it.Stop being weird. He's not literally doing that at all, you hysterical nincompoop. I've spent that £100 in my mind already.
There is an audio recording, of uncontested veracity, of Trump pressuring Georgia's secretary of state to falsify vote tallies to make him win the state. But sure, he only wants to "fix" things so that the other side can't cheat with zillions of fake voters. Got it.
Why do you insist on humiliating yourself like this? I mean, is it a kink, or what?
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