The Dem Party has historically struggled while reconciling the dueling ideologies of capitalist interests and humanism. It's my opinion among many others' that those two will never coexist harmoniously. The Clinton admin/years leaned into an economic boom, and that compelled much disingenuous window-dressing.
But the Dem brand has long been people-before-product while the latter day GOP has been the inverse. When that passive-audacity became untenably laughable in the face of so much psycho-cultural dissonance, they resorted to a long intended and now frightfully realized psycho-cultivation of their constituencies.
Algorithms and target marketing (much less Covid) have colluded, and it is now the Day of the Zombies. A nightmare come true is at the moment politics as usual. A battle of wills and ballots is before us to merely retain/maintain a renewed working model, which this national experiment was ever.
And the more pragmatic if not dubious US foreign policies—especially where Israel is concerned—gained much wiggle-room with and post 9/11. Those hens are now coming home to roost, and the GOP psycho-cultists (in unwitting and witting lock-step with other global authoritarians) are seizing the opportunity presented by long-standing grievances and long-open wounds to foment exploitable division within the liberal ranks. They’ve field-tested, witnessed and rely on its political efficacy. Humanism, even feigned, has withered to a mere wisp of a spurned notion within the party of wealth and greed. I hope and pray that champions of Democracy (are you? I am.) will see, approach and seize with faith this opportunity to begin reforming Democratically what have become chronic frustrations within our economically lopsided system. Democracy is required, and it has never before been so threatened.
Note: Fascism/Authoritarianism/Autocracies aren’t voted out, they’re only allowed in. And if we prove to be so tragically negligent, we’ll learn the hard way that they stay for an historical average of 20.5 years. They are then deposed by a desperate and decimated society. We mustn’t be chilled, but resolute and unafraid in the face of this true vulgarity.
DON’T WASTE YOUR VOTE. VOTE BLUE. NO MATTER WHAT YOU MAY ENCOUNTER.
Right on, brother...