Biden could right now, today issue an executive order to discontinue all processing of migration cases at the border for a year and easily win the election. It would cost no money and would be mega popular.
But nothing remotely similar is being done.
Let’s ponder what it is that overrides political expediency and popular will so easily. Biden will rather lose than keep filling up detention facilities at the border. This is something so powerful that it obliterates every argument, every fact, everything.
Trump didn’t do it, either, by the way. This isn’t an issue of personalities. It’s much stronger than all that childish “good guys / bad guys” stuff.
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Seems a sign that the last shreds of actual representative government have been chucked in the dumpster. Given the conditions ordinary people are expected to quietly accept, it is no great marvel that the people actually making the decisions are not willing to stand for election or be known by name. One only wonders how long it’ll be before the disenfranchised mobs erect their guillotines and start chopping their way through the financial beneficiaries of the regime, until through wholesale carnage they remove… probably not the heads of the structure who will have decamped to Switzerland long before, but at least their managerial enforcers.
Is it better to live through the carnage, or just endure the prolonged tension that precedes it, before everything snaps? Not that we’ll get much of a choice.
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“Is it better to live through the carnage, or just endure the prolonged tension that precedes it”
That’s Hamlet’s doubt, and we all know how that ended.
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They’re not leaders, they’re bank managers, representing a process where leadership and control never see sunlight, but instead exist behind the shadows of the silent majorities.
Oh, but I’m invoking Baudrillard?
Damned right I am, because we live within simulated nations, led by simulated leaders, while the Wizards keep adding layers to their protective curtains in Oz.
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What is your explanation?
Amanda
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We haven’t done anything as voters to punish the politicians who keep lying to us about this. We accept slogans instead of action. We accept ridiculous excuses about “the swamp” or the supposed extraordinary complexity of the issue. We declare that “well, he tried” is an acceptable explanation in a president when it wouldn’t be acceptable from any other adult who fails to deliver results. We deserve it because we are incredible dupes.
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That fact definitely adds weight to the argument that our elections are rigged and presidents are actually selected.
Amanda
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President Trump tried. Harder than I have ever seen an elected president try to keep his campaign promises. It was astonishing. Why he moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He appointed Federalist List judges. Republicans a supposed to welsch on those after taking office. Wild.
Though if you mean the FICUS’s handlers know, unlike that rube Mr. Trump, that it is a pointless non-starter… Then yes. And the whyfor is certainly an interesting topic for speculation.
Like the Vegas shooter, we shall likely never know what’s really true about it.
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On immigration Trump did absolutely nothing. Zilch, bupkes. Let’s abandon personality cults and look at reality.
Where’s the executive order on anchor babies that he promised us? There was no need to “try”. Just sign it and it’s done.
There’s no wall either.
And the measures I’m proposing could be achieved by a couple of executive orders, too.
What good did the embassy in Jerusalem do to me and you is a mystery. We have a wide-open border after 4 years of a president who ran on immigration control. We’ve been had and we continue to beg for more.
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“something so powerful that it obliterates every argument, every fact”
Well core tenet of neoliberalism is hatred of borders. This is becaue they reveal collective differences that are intolerable to the neoliberal mind, for which people are interchangeable widgets.
Making decisions about who can and can’t cross a border is heresy to them which is why they not only want open borders but actively engage in dragging more and more widgets across more and more borders, the more incongruous to the normie mind the better.
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Thus the vaccines: emblematic of our time, eh? Bunch of unknown, untested, and provably contaminated on closer examination, elements, punched across the most basic border we have– the skin– supposedly to make us better, but in truth degrading internal systems and weakening the organism. But we’re still not allowed to say anything critical about it because yay progress, and if you have doubts it’s obviously because you are a hateful bigot and want to kill (name of vulnerable group here). Same damn strategy for everything: if you support functional, intact, borders/membranes/social boundaries/sexual boundaries/fiscal boundaries… you’re a bigot and you must be ejected from public existence. You’d think people would catch on, and get tired of that strategy after a while, but the temptation to A) Feel superior by othering people with wrong opinions (which is way easier than being actually virtuous), and B) indulge in cowardice by scrambling to take cover under the currently-approved opinions so nobody can do the same to you… most people can’t resist, apparently.
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