I see a great deal of #BITCHING from #students about #Trump suspending loans and grants #FAFSA. Yet, it amazes me that the voting block that uses #FAFSA is the block that is the least participatory in voting and democracy. #IHaveZeroSympathy #YouDeserveWhatYouGot
NO. NO ONE DESERVES THIS. We have to realize the far right propaganda started off with psychological profiles (remember cambridge analytica on facebook?). Voter suppression includes making people feel that their vote doesn't matter, so they sit out elections. Propaganda also turns people toward Maga if it can. Let's help folks understand their vote does matter. Blaming each other for the oligarchy that hurts us all solves nothing.
or maybe our vote doesn't matter? Maybe this whole system needs to burn down? In any case, we need to punch up, never down, never at each other.
@FranceskaMann I agree that #PsyOps is at work. What is your plan for the system that is to replace the one you propose to burn down.
@FranceskaMann Burning the system down is exactly what Trump is doing now. He is following through with an old strategy of #GroverNorquist "I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist
@FranceskaMann What Trump is doing is called a #DecapitationStrike. He is burning the system down by damaging the very structures that hold it together at the top. This happens a great deal outside of the #BubbleOfPrivilege -- that most people in the US have never been out of and have never experienced -- in the #ShitHoleCountries Trump refers to.
@FranceskaMann I was born into abject poverty and lived homeless in the back of my dad's Ford pickup and squatting in abandoned farmhouses. Moreover, I taught math and science at at girls school in Keyna, East Africa for a number of years. I understand what it is like to live outside the #BubbleOfPrivilege. Trump is using #BurnItDown tactics from outside. So, Trump is doing exactly what you want. How does it feel to get what you wanted?
@FranceskaMann here is the bigger perspective on why Trump is #BurningTheSystemDown. He is a product of the rage that people in the US feel because their #RealWages have not increased since 1970. This is being driven by the #DeclineOfTheUS on a global scale. https://youtu.be/dNGSC4PtqwM
When Bernie Sanders ran many of the Republicans who are now voting for Trump would have voted for Bernie. But Democrats suppressed Bernie & all voices on the left. They shame and attack progressives, which opens the door for fascism. The far right has co-opted the abandoned concerns of the left. Their solutions are evil. But they are not ignoring people like Democrats have done.
@FranceskaMann You are correct. Democrats have been in a #Somnambulent #Nostalgia for at least a decade. Democrats are part of the problem because they have refused to recognize and confront Repubs for the #Ruthless #MotherFuckers they are. The #Repubs are owned and operated by the oligarchy. #SaintLuigi #HearOurPrayers
I don't want things to be destroyed. I don't want people to suffer. I want capitalism to be destroyed. I want an earth that evolves with human beings and happy animals, birds in the sky, snow in the winter.
When you say this is exactly what I want, I wonder, do you think I'm Maga? Who the fuck wants this?
@FranceskaMann You are seeing the destruction of capitalism. Do you like what you see? You are seeing the #RiseOfChina and the #DeclineOfTheUS #DeclineOfUSCapitalism. You are getting what you say you want. Do you like what you see?
I was not familiar with that term. A great number of people who live nice lives here in the United States believe that everything is just fine. But I grew up poor. I'm not poor now. I'm one of them, but with class consciousness.
@FranceskaMann Welcome to the club. I grew up with no running water, no electricity, no indoor toilet. Had to drive 68 miles to go to the movies. This is my grandpa's house. I educated myself out of alcoholic, evangelical, squalor. No debt. No mortgage. Ivy League in multivariate stats. Undergrads in Biology and Music Theory Composition. Live in #DirtyJersey now.
Oligarchy is pure undiluted capitalism. It's a death cult. The inequity right now is some of the worst in human history. He's burning it down for the oligarchy. But it did need to burn. Because the left, who is most of us, has had no voice. We want a green new deal to rise out of these ashes.
@FranceskaMann You are living in a fantasy because you have never lived outside the #BubbleOfPrivilege and don't have an understanding of what it means to live without capitalism.
My personal plan? I get news from Le Monde, The New Yorker, Democracy Now!. Masto is my only social media. I read a shit ton of books. Good books. Reading Frantz Fannon & Dave Graber at the moment.
@FranceskaMann Reading is good. But reading alone does not stop the processes that you say you want to have happen. You are beginning to experience some of the very things you say you want to have happen. You are getting your wish. What is missing is that you have not thought through what the new system should be nor the amount of pain and suffering bringing a new system into being will take.
@FranceskaMann Here are some options I, a gay man, have thought through should the US descend into a state of #fascism. I call it #PlanB. What is your #PlanB?
