Trump is the
sign and symptom of late capitalist moral and spiritual decadence. He has released the crass discourse of
demagoguery. He has legitimized and
normalized self-righteous anger, hatred and violence. He has enabled the Senatorial Republican
Oligarch class to turn their back on institutional integrity and the sanctity
of rule of Law.
The Rule of Law has
succumbed to the spirit of Oligarchic normativity transforming Law into an
instrument of manipulation, control and domination. Trump and his sycophants are engaged in
attacking and attempting to instrumentalize the Justice Department, the
Congress, the Intelligence agencies, the State Department, the Supreme Court
and the Federal Judiciary.
Moderates, centrists, middle-of-the-roaders
are arguing for a unity in America that does not exist and under the present
political and economic conditions not possible.
This appraisal is not extremism but a sharpening of the contradictions
of capitalist pseudo-culture which may well now be coming to consciousness in
the under-class. What is becoming clear
is that late capitalist pseudo-culture is a violent assault on liberty,
equality and sociality; an assault on life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
Late capitalism is violence
normalized and utilized to de-humanize and de-democratize the polity. Not only is democracy at stake but the very
spiritual and moral soul of America as that once possible shining city on a
hill.
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