Thoughts on the Death of Liberalism, Part XLIII

It is as interesting as ever to watch the empire fumble around for relevancy and crumble from lack of intelligence.

It’s fascinating.

As usual, I don’t care about the details. I don’t know who in particular killed who at Virginia, or what Confederate statues are being removed, or which talking head yelled at Trump the loudest, or what Trump said, if in fact he actually did say anything. I don’t care about any of this because it isn’t relevant.

The real issue at stake here is none of that. The real issue is the same one that framed the election and everything else our country has done since then.

The question: are we a democracy, or are we not?

And if we aren’t, then what is the point of voting? Or of caring?

The issue now is the same one that overshadowed everything last month, and the month before that, and the one before Trump was inaugurated.

When will the people who put Trump in office get what they voted for? Or perhaps, will any of them get anything they voted for, ever?

Or are we not a democracy?

To date, Trump has yet to start work on delivering even one of his promises, as they were understood by the great majority of the people who voted for him.

Where is the wall that the public voted for? Where is the effort, by Trump or anyone else, to begin it’s construction?

Where is “MAGA”? Where is the palpable reduction on immigration into the United States? Where is the “America First” foreign policy that we were promised? Where is any of the stuff that people thought they were getting when they pulled the lever last November?

Well, nowhere. And in fact, what we’re getting is Obama 2.0, only louder and dumber, if such a thing is even possible.

What we’re getting is an empire that is fighting everything in the world because it refuses to play nice with anyone else, including it’s own citizens.

The question remains. Why vote?

Nothing has been reversed, or even changed. In fact, it seems as though every trend that the people hated under Obama has been pushed forward, or even accelerated, since Trump took office.

So, why vote?

This is the thing that consistently goes over heads of the left.

They don’t get it. They’re losing the war for a sake of a few old statues.

Without even the appearance of legitimacy, the system that they feed on has no future, statues or no statues.

And the same goes for the web. Whether or not Daily Stormer is there doesn’t make any difference. And that goes for the rest of the conservative stuff being threatened or taken offline. If the real world system lacks legitimacy, if it feels corrupt, or clearly looks it to the 100’s of millions who voted for Trump, the fate of Daily Stormer or a collection of “alt-right” twitter feeds means nothing.

Will the people who voted for Trump get what they voted for, or not?

And if not, why would any one of them from this point on bother voting?

And if they don’t vote, what will they do, then?

The reality on the ground has not changed one iota in the last year. The people who voted for Trump are not going away, regardless of the statues or Daily Stormer. And all of this stuff will not change them or their minds.

And yes, what happened in Virginia, whatever it was, does not matter, either. And neither do the fate of Trump’s corporate councils, or his new drug war, or any of that garbage. None of that mattered when the GOP tried it back in the 80’s and it sure as hell isn’t going to matter, now.

Are the people who voted for Trump ever going to get what they voted for, or not?

And if not…. then what?

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