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Roger Boyd's avatar

The culture war is driven by the elites to divide and conquer the majority, keeping them away from pointing at the ownership class as the real problem. Most of the politicians espousing culture war are utter hypocrites when it comes to their own families and friends. Like Ellen and the Obamas happily chatting and interacting with GWB. Biden being best buddies with the most racist and misogynist SOB in Congress. If the governor of Florida's daughter got pregnant at 16 she would go on a "vacation" to Paris and come back not pregnant like in the old days. The "identity politics" ramped up right after Occupy Wall Street to take the focus off the 1%. Both elite sides are fully neoliberal, fully Empire and fully Zionist. And a lot of them on both sides are utterly depraved human beings.

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True Quest's avatar

The way I describe our current predicament is with a phrase I coined, viz. "Farxism" i.e. an unholy alliance between (Economic) Fascism (seen with Big Corporation uniting with Big Government against the best interests of hoi polloi) and (Social) Marxism (seen with the ruthless, and never-ending, assault on the values and norms of Western society).

To reference some well known quotes, with my additional commentary:

"Bad things happens when good people do nothing."

-The Bystander Effect seems to have taken hold over too many good people, thus leaving bad people to rule the roost.

"Hard times make hard men. Hard men make good times. Good times make soft men. Soft men make hard times. Hard times make hard men..."

-I fear we are on the brink of hard times that will take the passing of a generation or two before the return of a sufficient number of hard men to restore good times.

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