Yet we're doing nothing to prepare for ANY of that. Well, the oligarch class is. They are WAY out in front of the rest of us. They are going to make out like bandits.
The rest of us?
We're being played against each other, by those oligarchs. And I mean all of the oligarchs, globally. Musk, Thiel, Putin, the Adelsons, the Murdochs, all of them. A whole lot of this bullshit:
Except it's not just foreigners. It's a game of pitting half of us against the other half, and yes, I damned well think that one side is MUCH more responsible for that than the other, although I freely admit to the tone-deafness from elements of the left and the ptifalls of identity politics there, among others.
But I'll never get over watching half the country gleefully rush headlong into the arms of oligarchs to save them from.....the shit that oligarchs have wrought and have promised to do.
So, my attitude is indeed much more neutral these days. This path is what we want. Cool. Fuck 'em all. You want sympathy from me, hard leftists who sat out because you didn't think Kamala was hard left enough on Gaza? Watch me give zero shits when Bibi carpet bombs your family into pink mist, with Trump's blessing. Lower middle class, freaking out about the same inflation that the whole world suffered? Don't come crying to me when foolish tariff policies and the devastation of the primary labor force in the food and construction industries causes inflation to spike again. Shut up and eat your $20 chicken.
I'll be fine, most likely. Shit, the top percentages are probably going to do pretty well, riding the oligarch coattails and whatnot. So, we've asked for the path we're on. Let's walk it. I don't really give a fuck what happens to anyone else but me and mine. That's our new American ethos. I choose to embrace it instead of fighting it any longer. When my fellow Americans suffer because of the choices they made, I shouldn't spend an ounce of energy worrying about them, or thinking of ways to systemically make things better and working for those. I should do one thing, and one thing only: get mine.
I think that's the thing we can all agree on now, right?