Tags
Climate Chaos, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Corporate $tate, Deregulation, Donald J. Trump, Elon Musk, Idiocracy, Imperialism, Industrial Pollution, MAGA, Network State, Project 2025, Russia, Tech Bros, The Munich Agreement, Ukraine
As I take a break between the chapters of my dystopian book, let’s look at our present state of political turmoil and lurch toward authoritarianism. What we currently see developing is a merger between far right-wing tech magnates who want their own corporate thiefdoms and MAGA who want a white Christian nationalist theocracy. Trump, a silver spoon grifter and sociopath who is in the process of turning America into an oligarch-run mafia state like Russia, happens to be the convenient ‘charismatic’ figurehead for the MAGA movement. Our Conman-in-Chief reads at the level of an eleven-year-old and, despite wrapping himself in the cloak of religion, cannot even quote a single line from the Bible. Yet, a majority of his followers say they believe he is their god’s anointed one, as hypocritical and preposterous as that sounds. More than half of American adults read below a 6th grade level, thus the fertile ground that would give rise to such an illiterate and deceitful character as Trump. As an old Turkish Proverb states:
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”
Trump’s first term was simply a trial and error period for how to corrupt and subvert the levers of government to his bidding. His second term will be much more effective at doing so. Among the most alarming moves by Trump and the so-called Project 2025 thus far are the dismantling of environmental regulations and science research and funding. Typical of authoritarian dictators who often disregard scientific consensus when it contradicts their political agenda, prioritizing the maintenance of their power over evidence-based decision making, Trump is suppressing information to suit his narrative of expanding fossil fuel consumption. What I find most interesting, however, is this far right faction of the tech industry which is swiftly and precisely carrying out its agenda, exploiting Trump exactly as they had so openly discussed and planned. A linked video above explains it in detail, but here is a very condensed synopsis:
Just watch the videos above and you will understand that what we have witnessed since Trump 2.0 began on January 20, 2025 follows the Tech oligarchs’ playbook to a T. Their plan of hollowing out and taking over the US government is characterized by attacking swiftly and breaking things in order to sow chaos, destabilize institutions, and demoralize public servants. This also plays to the MAGA crowd who have been fooled into believing their fate and well-being is better served by corporate interests unfettered by any regulations and rules designed to protect the public. And nevermind that the global population is seen by these oligarchs as mere parasites whose sole purpose is to generate profits from consumption of corporate products.
Coupled with the increasingly chaotic and collapsing biosphere, we are ushering in a dystopian future I shudder to even imagine. Also, keep in mind that what the Trump administration is doing to Ukraine is exactly what Britain and France did to Czechoslovakia in an attempt to appease an imperialistic Nazi Germany in 1938. See video below for a clear-eyed explanation of why we are repeating history:
Where do we go from here? Nowhere but into the abyss as long as there is a large swath of the public so easily manipulated and a government and news media that is beholden to the highest bidder.
RIP America…
Collapse of Industrial Civilization 
I’m not worried about WW3 between Russia and America. I’m worried about WW3 between Russia and a version of Europe that has gone back to the way it operated before 1945.
LikeLiked by 2 people
I’m more worried about Russia and the US joining forces against Europe and China and that’s where WWIII will happen. With so many MAGA idiots we have in the US and other far right influences, sooner or later someone will do the unthinkable.
LikeLiked by 4 people
Yeah, the billionaires are trying to change the world to fit their dystopian, hyper-selective vision. It may even be viable for the 99.99%. What we need is something for the 80%. You may be interested in this: https://gm-pres.tiiny.com
LikeLiked by 1 person
URL does not work.
LikeLike
My bad: https://gm-pres.tiiny.site
LikeLike
Well said Xraymike79.
LikeLiked by 2 people
and one of the ways the governments are becoming authoritarian is by increasing the amount of survelliance on your computers. Take Windows 11, for example. The governments are spying on you (via Windows 11) because spying is just a part of the NSA police state survelliance program.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Great stuff, but you have way overestimated the intellectual development of Our Mad King (wannabe) Donald the 1st. He suffered a massive trauma of abandonment at age 2 and is stuck, therefor, in “the terrible twos”. Also, he is mad at the world and everyone in it for this abandonment. He will do absolutely anything to avoid EVER being abandoned again and experiencing the sheer terror he felt as a 2yo. Thus, his “rejection sensitivity” and obsession with “loyalty”, both central characteristics of folks who suffer from the psychiatric condition known as “Borderline Personality Disorder”. He will always seek to reject any suspected disloyal other before they can abandon him, eg., Comey, et.al. If we had a president with any backbone and energy for saving us from this nightmare, which we DID NOT have with Sleepy Joe, or Wray, or Joe’s AG, Meritless Garlic, or a Congress devoted to America and not just the Almighty dollar, then Tramp would have been taken into Federal custody on Jan 21,2021, to be held for trail on a charge of “insurrection” and/or “seditious conspiracy”, like so many others were, eventually. The nightmare that we see unfolding now is the direct result of cowardice and lack of patriotic devotion to the rule of law, as spelled out 240 yrs. ago in the Constitution. So, yes, America, RIP.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dear Mike and cowboywildly00e60b3485,
Hello! There is an important piece of work that sheds light on the sorry and sordid state of the US democracy and partisan politics. Published on 13 March 2025 and entitled “A Movement to Destroy U.S. Democracy Controls the Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court—But What’s Behind It?“, this is a great article from Religion Dispatches, which “is a publication of Political Research Associates, a social justice research and strategy center that has been researching, monitoring, and publicizing the agenda and strategies of the U.S. and global Right for over four decades.” I very much concur with the author Katherine Stewart, and I am very impressed by how well and detailed she has described some of the issues. I would like to add some of my own observations and analyses.
The “disease” of the corrupt is spreading far and wide. Rather than the “Bloody Immigrants” as scapegoats, it is actually the bloody plutocrats and their ill-informed supporters, and the matter is much more than a backlash against globalization. There is also the ongoing Christian institutions’ war on knowledge and alignment with power. Some factions of Christianity have even evolved into clerical fascism (also called clero-fascism or clerico-fascism), which is an ideology that combines the political and economic doctrines of fascism with clericalism. For instance, the Silver Legion of America (also known as the Silver Shirts) in the United States led by William Dudley Pelley has combined American Christianity (specifically Protestantism) with American white nationalism.
Indeed, there are numerous compelling and irrefutable reasons as to why there is no justification in supporting such corrupted Christian organizations and their doctrines, whose leaders and followers have aligned themselves with the likes of Trump, and by extension, other corrupt entities, including Putin and numerous wretched rulers, politicians, plutocrats, autocrats, officials and corporations. Sadly, many of those who are supposedly more morally or spiritually attuned to the wise and virtuous seem to have fared even worse, given that a large percentage of Trump’s supporters have been disproportionately Christians. So much for Christianity being the guiding conscience and ultimate salvation!
The blame game is still very much rampant in Homo sapiens, which has firmly ushered in an apocalyptic age of deplorable politics, outright complicity, devious duplicity, shameless mendacity, excruciating inhumanity, extraordinary brutality and unrelenting cruelty! Considering the countless wretched situations and dire outcomes that humans have repeatedly created for themselves and nonhumans through war crimes, holocausts, slaveries, genocides, environmental destructions and ecological disasters plus a litany of gross injustices, unconscionable exploitations and staggering corruptions, any reasonable person may insist or conclude that there is emphatically no longer the need, excuse or justification to blame the old serpent, Devil or Satan, who can permanently retire from being the stigmatized scapegoat, catch-all villain and evil incarnate.
On the whole, how shocking and deplorable it has been that despite these staggering amount of reasons and overwhelming evidences against Trump, he is still becoming the President for the second time as a convicted felon!
The salient issues of democracy versus autocracy (and plutocracy) aside, there are many sobering implications of authoritarianism, which is a very topical area for exploring the many outstanding tensions between (the sociopsychological states of) sanity/stability and insanity/instability, affecting even the very existence and survival of humanity. In recent years, many citizens have willingly aligned themselves with misinformation, disinformation, post-truth politics, demagoguery, plutocracy, oligarchy, ochlocracy, kleptocracy, kakistocracy, narcissistic leadership, neoliberalism, globalization, clerical fascism and Trumpism. We can also agree that the ongoing chaos inflicted by the Trump presidency finally culminated in the infamous riot at the Capitol. You and I can be justified for being cynical, snide, snarky and facetious in characterizing Trump as the symbolic messiah who is going to lead his misguided supporters, sycophants and funders to glory on Earth and the promised land! It is often futile to reason with such misguided folks. Perhaps only when the country truly becomes autocratic or fascist, or when it plunges into a civil war, will such folks wake up, but then it will be too late. Consequently, any reasonable person can conclude that the USA has been plagued by ignorance, dogma, falsity, blind faith, spiritual stagnation and epistemological impasse . . . . .
To make matter worse, even those who are supposed to know better, who are in the most privileged position or at the highest echelon, have displayed objectionable conducts, caused much disunity, and/or generated unwisdom. We have been witnessing so clearly the insidious nature of Trumpism, Machiavellian conservatism and inimical illiberalism perverting democracy for nefarious purposes and for justifying, obfuscating or muddying the waters of systemic sexism, racism, historical negationism, discrimination, marginalization and curtailment of civil rights. In a similar vein, one of my latest posts highlights not just the various traps awaiting us from the fallouts of the main event regarding the SCOTUS’ decisions on abortion and its striking down Roe v. Wade, but also how the capacity of laws and legislation to be legally valid, binding and enforceable in different contexts is both contingent (acceptable only if certain circumstances are the case) and circumscribed (restricted to certain roles or situations), given that the content, relevance and quality of laws and legislation are fundamentally filtered and moulded by class structures, social stratifications, cultural reproductions and communication frameworks as well as by the interaction between legal cultures, and the social construction of legal issues, as discussed in my post entitled “🏛️⚖️ The Facile and Labile Nature of Law: Beyond the Supreme Court and Its Ruling on Controversial Matters 🗽🗳️🔫🤰🧑🤝🧑💉“, published at
May both of you enjoy the long weekend. Happy Easter!
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle🦅
LikeLiked by 1 person
I will incorporate this into my next post.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Dear Mike and cowboywildly00e60b3485,
I would like to add that the situation facing us now is far worse, because whilst Pluto has been demoted to a dwarf planet, the planet of America has already ascended to plutocracy.
In any case, it is going to be an arduous task to solve these outstanding issues, because saving and rehabilitating planet USA aside, we also need the political economy of saving planet Earth. Yet the entrenched and insidious issues of plutocracy have loomed even larger, thus continuing to thwart many efforts mounted to save both the nationalistic planet and the true planet. Social and economic polarizations can further exacerbate the issues of wealth, and such polarizations are increasing for the following reason: The planet USA is very much plagued in varying degrees by misinformation, disinformation, post-truth politics, demagoguery, plutocracy, oligarchy, ochlocracy, kleptocracy, kakistocracy, narcissistic leadership, neoliberalism and globalization.
The underlying opposition is not so much between the Democrats and the Republicans as between the rich plutocrats and the rest of the population. However feasible or unfeasible it may be, the Democrats need to (re)form their party to unite the 90% of the people living at an entrenched economic and political disadvantage in order to deal with the Plutocrats, who have gained so much political and economic power that they have hollowed out the middle class, such that many people cannot even make ends meet by having two or three paying jobs.
According to Wikipedia:
More from Wikipedia:
Also from Wikipedia:
To be more specific, social and economic polarizations can further exacerbate the issues of wealth and power distribution. The underlying opposition is not so much between the Democrats and the Republicans as between the rich plutocrats and the rest of the population. The Democrats need to (re)form their party to unite the 90 percent of the people living at an entrenched economic and political disadvantage in order to deal with the plutocrats.
I would like to conclude here by stating that the best and most dedicated amongst the likes of us are also inveterate teachers of everlasting, transcendental wisdom to save humans from themselves, their self-interests and their destructive ways. I often even have to coin new words to do so. The latest examples are my three neologisms “Misquotation Pandemic“, “Disinformation Polemic” and “Viral Falsity“, as discussed in my extensive and analytical post entitled “💬 Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: 🧠 Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity 🦠“. This post of mine has twelve major sections (plus a detailed annotated gallery) instantly accessible from a navigational menu, which can help you to jump to any section of the post instantly so that you can more easily resume reading at any point of the post over multiple sessions in your own time. The post can be easily located from the Home page of my blog. For your convenience, it is available at:
http://wp.me/pkM63-b1l/#top
As discussed in the post, without proper education, the overall situation and trajectory of democracy and humanity seem to be rather bleak, and even science and politics can provide little comfort in reducing the severity and frequency of some of those outstanding issues, for there are two major Achilles’ heels: Viral Falsity and Paleolithic Emotions. In addition, my own multidisciplinary perspective proposes in the post with detailed analyses that four of the most insidious and corrosive conditions have exacerbated these issues dramatically:
(1) The prevailing anti-intellectualism
(2) The cult of anti-expertise sentiment
(3) The politicization of science
(4) The prevalent manifestation of populism
Gathering all the diverse and important strands together in the grand finale of the said post, I have attempted to sum up and reflect deeply the state of affairs with hard truths, especially in the twelfth and last section named “Denouement: Democracy, Education, Legislation & Sustainability”, which even gives a very dire warning of what humanity is heading towards if there is still no concerted, meaningful and large-scale change for the better.
Saving and rehabilitating the USA aside, we also need the political economy of saving the planet. Yet the entrenched and insidious issues of plutocracy have loomed even larger, thus continuing to thwart many efforts mounted to save the nation and the planet.
In any case, education and legislation are the two major keys for ensuring effective democracy and good governance. However, it is often too late to educate those who have been poisoned for too long and too deeply by the “me” culture driven by self-interest and political expediency to amass power, influence and wealth by plotting control, intrigue, exploitation, corruption and social polarization.
We share many similar concerns for composing posts involving thorough examinations of some of the most salient issues that have led the USA to this moment in time. Needless to say, due to misinformation and disinformation as well as the pandemic and other global issues, 2016 to 2025 have been very difficult and trying, not to mention having to deal with the pandemic. It was all quite surreal, perhaps in some ways more bizarre than ghosts and the paranormal (not that I believe in such things). One could indeed say that we live in interesting times, but often for the wrong reasons. It is all quite a big mess in danger of getting bigger still. Even a global pandemic and an insurrection at the citadel of democracy still cannot unite folks in the USA and wake them up. Perhaps it will take an even bigger crisis to do so, such as a series of shocking events or climate change disasters.
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle🦅
LikeLike