Opening Pandora’s Box on Can’t You Read (Link)
Opening Pandora’s Box
Recommended Reading: Opening Pandora’s Box
Well my friends, despite my extremely strong reservations about the subject, the (primarily) liberal, mainstream political and media establishment’s response to the Klepto Kaiser’s ongoing half-assed molasses coup would seem to have forced my hand – and thus I find myself once again discussing swine emperor Trump and the larger American fascist movement quite frequently, both on social media and in my writing. While I can’t say I’m surprised, I certainly had hoped that Herr Donald would slink off into the sunset immediately after the election; even if I knew that hope would be in vain. Oh well, no rest for the wicked isn’t just a saying I guess.
Back in August of this year, I laid out a rough sketch of how I suspected Donald Trump to try and steal the 2020 election in an article called “Stasis: Surviving the Pork Reich With A Cassandra Complex.” The piece is quite lengthy and touches on a number of additional topics besides the coup I believed Trump would attempt, but you can find some screenshots of the relevant portion here. As I said at the time, I wasn’t sure Trump would be able to summon up an army of brownshirt fascist chuds to literally seize the government by force in the event he was unable to either rig, or steal the election – but I was sure that we would eventually get here, to what is unarguably an attempted coup by Downmarket Mussolini.
Spoiler alert: things are certainly not going well for the Klepto Kaiser on the “successful judicial coup” front as the Trump crime family keeps losing court cases and shedding lawyers – but you certainly didn’t need me to tell you that. At this point there have been precisely a million articles written about the Trump Coup “Four Seasons Landscaping” gaffe, their floundering attempts in court or Rudy Giuliani’s runny hair dye episode, and it’s become largely understood among Very Serious PeopleTM that the swine emperor’s judicial coup is a bust.
So, coup almost and certainly, but not quite dead – yet: huzzah! Right? Sure I guess, but there’s just one problem, and it’s an issue so vexing that I’ve spent the better part of five podcast episodes trying to properly articulate it to everyone around me; namely that it doesn’t actually matter if Trump fails to retain power and as such, examining whether or not his colossal fascist bluff will succeed is flat out a waste of time. Oh sure, the situation would certainly be quite different if Herr Donald simply won the election outright; but the idea that Biden inevitably becoming President is going to end America’s terminal case of fascism is quite simply, a fairy tale.
Why? Well to quote Indi Samarajiva, the Sri Lankan writer whose article I’m featuring today, because “this year America had fascism on the ballot and nonwhite people mercifully said no. The fascists, however, are now saying f*ck ballots. And enough of the population is like f*ck yeah!” And Samarjiva is speaking from personal experience because, as he notes at the very start of his article, Sri Lanka is no stranger to the fallout of a failed modern coup attempt.
I dunno about you, but I’ve always been partial to primary sources over whistling past the graveyard of so many moderates who thought ignoring the fascists and hoping they go away was a legitimate strategy. So today’s Recommended Reading selection focuses on an issue I think is far more important than the question of “will Trump’s coup succeed?” Specifically what the Chicken Coup actually means, and what kind of effect it’s likely to have on our society going forward – because like it or not, what’s going on every day in America right now is going to reverberate for generations, in much the same manner Watergate shaped U.S. politics in the decades that preceded it.
Check out what I believe is perhaps the most important article I’ve read all year and a piece that’s sure to be cited repeatedly in my future writing, by clicking on the title header below:
“I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now” by Indi Samarajiva on Medium
– nina illingworth
