{"id":151190007,"date":"2024-11-06T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T13:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=151190007"},"modified":"2024-11-06T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T13:31:02","slug":"the-class-war-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=151190007","title":{"rendered":"The Class War Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cShe knew better than to envision any further: the future was a room with a warp on the floor.\u201d – Tiffany Morris, \u201cNight in the Chrysalis\u201d <\/h2>

I\u2019m writing this before Tuesday. I usually do. The reason, though, is because how I feel after the fifth<\/em> straight MOST CONSEQUENTIAL election of my lifetime transcends electoral politics. Whatever candidate takes the oath in January, we are in a bad, bad place in this country. <\/p>

Let\u2019s be clear: if it\u2019s Harris, I\u2019m stoked. It\u2019s a thrill to vote for the first Black and Indian President, the first woman President\u2014I do believe in the power of representation and symbols, and I think it\u2019s great that those \u201cHERE ARE ALL THE PRESIDENTS\u201d posters in elementary schools are getting less white. <\/p>

If it\u2019s Trump? Good luck to you, me, and everyone else. <\/p>

It\u2019d be nice to vote for antiwar candidate. It\u2019d be nice to vote for a candidate unafraid to talk about climate change. But war and fossil fuels make people money. So.<\/p>

\"File:Lockheed<\/figure>

This season has seen Republicans fully embrace mask-off racism and fascism. It saw Democrats fully say \u201cnot only is genocide fine, you\u2019re a fascist sympathizer if you call us out for funding genocide.\u201d One party is transparently beholden to the odious greed and oozing racism of the world\u2019s richest man<\/a>, the other is more quietly beholden to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin<\/a>. Troublingly, we saw billionaires block journalism<\/a>\u2014the high-profile endorsement killings at <\/a>LA Times<\/a><\/em> and WaPo<\/a><\/em> are one thing<\/a>, but the obviousness with which the press was cheering for Trump (at worst) or impotent to cover him honestly (at best)<\/a>. I wish just about everything in the world was different.<\/p>

\"File:Democracy<\/figure>

After the 2016 election, I was reminded just how racist this country is<\/a>. The 2020 election taught me just how much capitalism will fight socialist movements<\/a>, and Democrats are actually fine with a little sexual harassment if it\u2019s their guy<\/a>. The 2024 election season\u2014which has been happening since 2015 but depressingly really kicked off on October 7, 2023<\/a>\u2014has taught me that the powers that be really are that amoral, really are that okay with other people\u2019s death and suffering as long as it\u2019s not at their doorstep. Also please stop pointing out how okay they are with genocide, it makes the food at their dinner parties taste ashen.<\/p>

\"Female<\/figure>

If there\u2019s anything the last nine years\u2014post-Trump descending the escalator\u2014has taught us, it\u2019s that the rich will easily and happily go along with fascism. We saw the media sanewash Trump<\/a> after spending all summer freaking out about Joe Biden\u2019s sundowning. We see media going extra hard on Harris\u2014she\u2019s not talking about policy<\/a>! She\u2019s not doing interviews<\/a>! Why does she never talk about policy<\/a>! I can\u2019t believe she doesn\u2019t have any policies<\/a>! If only we knew her policy proposals<\/a>!\u2014and we see every rich person absolutely lining up for Trump<\/a> because, hey. They made billions during the pandemic<\/a>. Expanding the police state so that the federal government can set up concentration camps when the mass deportation plan goes tits up? That\u2019ll make them money, too! Who gives a shit about human suffering? <\/p>

Who gives a shit about human suffering? <\/p>

Who gives a shit about human suffering? <\/p>

Who gives a shit about human suffering? <\/p>

\"Amazon\"\/<\/figure>

The last Trump admin saw a massive transfer of wealth to the upper crust<\/a>, at a time when we\u2019ve had decades of massive transfer of wealth to the upper crust<\/a>. Income inequality is bad and it\u2019s going to continue to get worse. These types of things are incredibly hard to fix, which is why I enthusiastically voted for Harris. It can always get so, so much worse. While I am appalled and horrified by the Biden admin\u2019s arming of Israel\u2014a war-crime committing settler-colonialist state that\u2019s essentially Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa rolled into one\u2014I fully believe Trump would give Bibi Netanyahu nukes, and a nuked Palestine is not a free Palestine. <\/p>

\"File:Milwaukee<\/figure>

As much as I hate Joe Biden\u2014and I hate that sexual harassing, segregationist sympathizer as much as I\u2019ve ever hated any politician\u2014he had some good stuff on labor<\/a> and energy<\/a> during his mostly failed and embarrassing term as president. Trump is all gas no brakes on literally every awful thing you can think of. A Harris administration will do some<\/em> good things, and will not hand the country over to the billionaires. <\/p>

Which brings us back to the point of this post: there is a real enemy. Trumpism is not going away<\/a> because JD Vance is not going away<\/a>, or more accurately, Peter Thiel is not going away<\/a>. Jeff Bezos is not going away<\/a>. Elon Musk is not going away<\/a>. The need to raise the tax rate to 70% on any income over $10 million or whatever AOC proposed<\/a> a while ago? That\u2019s still here, no matter what happened yesterday. <\/p>

\"File:Guthrie<\/figure>

It\u2019s the day after Tuesday. No matter what happened yesterday, the work continues. The war has to stop. Burning fossil fuels has to stop. The billionaires gotta go. The work continues.<\/p>

\"File:Fred<\/figure>

Sorry you got an email, <\/p>

Chris<\/p>

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