A conservative plan forĀ Donald TrumpāsĀ potential transition into the presidency calls for dozens of prisoners to be executed, according to HuffPost. An 887-page plan by Project 2025, led by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, says that if elected, Trump should make a concerted effort to execute the remaining 40 prisoners on death row. The sectionās author, attorney Gene Hamilton, advised that Trump ādo everything possible to obtain finalityā on the current list of people until Congress forces them to stop. Hamilton is the vice president ofĀ America Legal First, a group of former Trump lawyers bent on attacking āwokeā companies, headed by Stephen Miller. Trumpās approach to theĀ death penaltyĀ stands in stark contrast to that of PresidentĀ Joe Biden, who has openly opposed theĀ death penalty, but doneĀ littleĀ to move forward legislation to reform or abolish the practice since entering office.
For those of you not in the know Project 2025 is Republicans plan to turn the USA into an authoritarian state.
Ah yes, theyāre so intense about fighting capitalist oppression theyāve circled around toā¦ checks notes defending police brutality and advocating for the further privatisation of every public good and dismantling all worker protections.
The difference between āeat the richā and āfeed the richā is really just one syllable, right? Almost negligible.
(Also, no, they donāt call everyone fascist. They just donāt think being liberal is enough for change, when the āliberalsā of the US have a history of complaining about the things they donāt stop the regressives from doing. Thereās a difference between calling people ānaive and spinelessā and āactively pursuing oppressionā.)
I will say that there is a marked and growing distain for mixed liberal ideologies. There is a lot of this idea that every socialist needs to be some kind of pure strain to count or take basically the Marxist definition as the only viable one. It kind of ignores a couple of centuries of Socialist thought. A lot of people basically think āmeans of productionā means nothing less than everyone working in a co-op and discounts a lot of past socialist wins as ānot socialismā. Itās an important thing to remember about Marx, the world he lived in was very different. Damn near everything at the time was privatized. Water, sanitation, post, fire service, public health and public health regulatory bodiesā¦ None of that existed under the perview of Government auspice. Socialist strains more to the legacy of Robert Owens, Daniel De Leon, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and other ethical socialists have had significant wins. Some places took it further than others but the one thing that was allowed to happen in a lot of places was complacency. The 1980ās and 90ās created a liberal fervor that has continued to walk back a lot of significant wins made by the Socialist movements of the early 1900ās and the civil rights movementsā¦ But because a lot of the functions of Socialist wins have become the air we breathe people do not associate them with socialism anymore. The issue with peaceful integration is that private gains are always incentivized so complacency cannot be afforded.
It seems weirdly controversial but Non-Marxist socialists exist. Marx was one very popular voice in a sea of people with somewhat related but sometimes contradictory ideas. Some philosophers have been retro-branded as proto-socialists because they existed before Marx who just coined the term. Looking at his contemporaries thereās good reason why he became popular. A lot of what was out there was much drier, committed to peaceful reform. It didnāt tap into peopleās anger or emotion in the same way. Right now we deal with a lot of that issue on the left. It is an old struggle. People who are bombastically angry and turning around and biting people for not being āenoughā of something. Not fitting a narrow definition. Half my issue with Communist parties I have looked at joining is they arenāt great at being collaborative. Increasingly I have found the argument around ācentrismā to stop meaning āpeople who support the basic status quoā which it seemed to have evolved to being interpretable as for a minuteā¦ To a more worrying definition about anyone willing to work across any ideological lines set down by the one guy people bothered to read.
This use of ācentrismā as though itās a plotable point on a map seems to me a worrying fiction. The post moves to create division and self satisfaction where none need exist.
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Dangerous to democracy? Whereād you get that idea? Iām not the one trying to install an authoritarian plutocracy.
Iām a staunch believer in educated democracy, but that requires education in the first place. Education regressives have been undermining forever, because it would inform the people of their actual democratic power.
Which would be? What, in your opinion, actually matters?
My priority is a sustainable and enjoyable future. One where you can grow old without worrying about our pension or affording medical care. One where you no longer pay a cut of your work to a person just becaude theyāre rich already. One where you can do the job you love without worrying about how well it pays or whether youāll get fired.
The Liberals keep bartering for compromise instead of progress, gradually ceding ground to the Conservatives. The spoiler effect means an actually progressive third party has no chance and risks handing power to the regressives by splitting the vote. Because all the Liberals have to do is ābe less badā, you get the choice between right-of-center and far right. This isnāt democracy, itās slowly dismantling it.
Iāll take the Liberals, because theyāre āless badā, but itās not a solution. Itās buying time in the hope that we can actually fix the underlying issues.