MrPiss

joined 1 year ago
[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

I see major political change of any kind as 5 years away at minimum. No organization inside or outside of government really wants major change. At most they want to twist a few nobs and dials on the machines to increase the pain at a faster or slower rate.

Americans are pretty far from the level of suffering that will produce violent revolutionary conditions. We barely have any solid reform movements since everything gets coopted by either political party and defanged. There are no independent centers of power and many people are too alienated or disconnected to create a movement.

I'd like to think something has to happen soon with how the financiers are sucking the life out of the country's and world's economy but all of the carefully crafted systems of control seem ascendant. Even with both political parties being filled with incompetent losers they can still bumble their way through maintaining the system.

This is a country where cops can kill people in broad daylight and get away with it when it's on video. The American psyche has to change but I feel like it will only get worse with the conditions.