Yet this huge MAGA halfwit rump Murica cannot move on, cannot lift the chip (nay, LOG!) from their shoulder and will perhaps remain the permanent anal blockage to a dark future.
Exposing Why The Wealth Gap Exists And The Solution
Jon Stewart interview https://bit.ly/4cetaar with A Mechele Dickerson https://bit.ly/3OMGGIB Middle Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream in her book exposes that the middle class after WWII the government created a middle class based primarily in the housing market especially since the 1980’s
The local state and federal politicians have the ability to change course and deconstruct the middle class by simply changing the laws that have so firmly entrenched a middle class that has no upward mobility The current situation is that the middle class has a horizontal view of where they stand but are unable to move upward due to the tribal constraints that are imposed ie blame the tribes ie immigrants for their plight of inability to buy a home(currently new home buyers average age is 40) The upper and lower class economically have been taught to not look upward but horizontally to who is to blame, that a whole lot of wealth is moving upwards
Rules and laws need to be changed in order to begin to attack this extreme wealth gap but also the middle and lower class needs to stop buying the Nazi Republican koolaid and realizing that if they unite horizontally they themselves can effect societal change French Revolution 2.0
The nesting doll metaphor is brilliant — but it flatters Trump with far more power than he actually has.
Khrushchev blaming Stalin wasn't just rhetoric — it was one absolute ruler replacing another within a system designed to have no accountability whatsoever. No independent courts. No free press. No federalism. No separation of powers. The blame cycle mattered in the Soviet Union because there was nothing else. The narrative was the regime.
America is nothing like that. The courts still check executive power. Congress still holds the purse. Federalism constrains what any president can actually do. The press is free to call out every lie in real time — and does. Trump can blame Biden from the podium all night long, and the constitutional machinery keeps grinding the next morning regardless. That's not a system on the verge of Soviet-style collapse. That's republican design working as intended.
I lived through what actual institutional decay looks like. In Argentina, every president blames the last one — Kirchner blamed Menem, Macri blamed Kirchner, Fernández blamed Macri, Milei blames them all. And it matters there, because the institutions are too weak to force accountability independent of the narrative. The blame cycle fills the vacuum where checks and balances should be.
America has no such vacuum. Which means Trump blaming Biden isn't an authoritarian pattern — it's ordinary democratic politics. Clinton blamed Bush Sr. Obama blamed Bush. Biden blamed Trump. The rhetoric is banal precisely because the institutions are strong enough to absorb it.
The real question isn't whether the current president points fingers — they all do. It's whether the institutional architecture holds regardless. And in America, it does. Comparing that to the Soviet Politburo doesn't sharpen the analysis — it distorts it.
DvP, your second paragraph suggests you observe this country through rose-tinted glasses. All of your examples of the republican design working as intended are incomplete. Some parts of the design are working as intended at least some of the time. Other parts of the system are missing in action. I would argue that this country does have at least a partial vacuum in the supposed checks and balances.
Fair pushback, Phil. I'm not arguing the system is flawless — no institution is. Courts get politicized. Congressional oversight gets selectively applied. Federalism gets tested.
But "imperfect" and "Soviet Politburo" are not on the same spectrum. That's the distinction I'm drawing. A system where checks and balances work unevenly is still categorically different from a system where they don't exist at all. The question isn't whether American institutions are perfect. It's whether comparing them to a regime with zero independent judiciary, zero free press, and zero separation of powers produces useful analysis — or just dramatic rhetoric.
A partial vacuum and no vacuum at all are very different problems requiring very different diagnoses.
Wise advice.
Yet this huge MAGA halfwit rump Murica cannot move on, cannot lift the chip (nay, LOG!) from their shoulder and will perhaps remain the permanent anal blockage to a dark future.
Exposing Why The Wealth Gap Exists And The Solution
Jon Stewart interview https://bit.ly/4cetaar with A Mechele Dickerson https://bit.ly/3OMGGIB Middle Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream in her book exposes that the middle class after WWII the government created a middle class based primarily in the housing market especially since the 1980’s
The local state and federal politicians have the ability to change course and deconstruct the middle class by simply changing the laws that have so firmly entrenched a middle class that has no upward mobility The current situation is that the middle class has a horizontal view of where they stand but are unable to move upward due to the tribal constraints that are imposed ie blame the tribes ie immigrants for their plight of inability to buy a home(currently new home buyers average age is 40) The upper and lower class economically have been taught to not look upward but horizontally to who is to blame, that a whole lot of wealth is moving upwards
Rules and laws need to be changed in order to begin to attack this extreme wealth gap but also the middle and lower class needs to stop buying the Nazi Republican koolaid and realizing that if they unite horizontally they themselves can effect societal change French Revolution 2.0
7+ million votes - Biden’s victory margin in 2020. Donnie cannot abide it.
The nesting doll metaphor is brilliant — but it flatters Trump with far more power than he actually has.
Khrushchev blaming Stalin wasn't just rhetoric — it was one absolute ruler replacing another within a system designed to have no accountability whatsoever. No independent courts. No free press. No federalism. No separation of powers. The blame cycle mattered in the Soviet Union because there was nothing else. The narrative was the regime.
America is nothing like that. The courts still check executive power. Congress still holds the purse. Federalism constrains what any president can actually do. The press is free to call out every lie in real time — and does. Trump can blame Biden from the podium all night long, and the constitutional machinery keeps grinding the next morning regardless. That's not a system on the verge of Soviet-style collapse. That's republican design working as intended.
I lived through what actual institutional decay looks like. In Argentina, every president blames the last one — Kirchner blamed Menem, Macri blamed Kirchner, Fernández blamed Macri, Milei blames them all. And it matters there, because the institutions are too weak to force accountability independent of the narrative. The blame cycle fills the vacuum where checks and balances should be.
America has no such vacuum. Which means Trump blaming Biden isn't an authoritarian pattern — it's ordinary democratic politics. Clinton blamed Bush Sr. Obama blamed Bush. Biden blamed Trump. The rhetoric is banal precisely because the institutions are strong enough to absorb it.
The real question isn't whether the current president points fingers — they all do. It's whether the institutional architecture holds regardless. And in America, it does. Comparing that to the Soviet Politburo doesn't sharpen the analysis — it distorts it.
DvP, your second paragraph suggests you observe this country through rose-tinted glasses. All of your examples of the republican design working as intended are incomplete. Some parts of the design are working as intended at least some of the time. Other parts of the system are missing in action. I would argue that this country does have at least a partial vacuum in the supposed checks and balances.
Also — DvP. I'm stealing that.
Fair pushback, Phil. I'm not arguing the system is flawless — no institution is. Courts get politicized. Congressional oversight gets selectively applied. Federalism gets tested.
But "imperfect" and "Soviet Politburo" are not on the same spectrum. That's the distinction I'm drawing. A system where checks and balances work unevenly is still categorically different from a system where they don't exist at all. The question isn't whether American institutions are perfect. It's whether comparing them to a regime with zero independent judiciary, zero free press, and zero separation of powers produces useful analysis — or just dramatic rhetoric.
A partial vacuum and no vacuum at all are very different problems requiring very different diagnoses.