America’s Soggy Taco Problem
Like a soggy taco, the bottom has fallen out of America politics. The left and right are going hard while the middle has gone soft. The ‘middle’ was hypocrisy and lies, but it was still the only thing holding the taco together. Now the whole thing is falling apart.
The big problem is how much the left and right agree. Both distrust the mainstream media. Both are fed up of rapacious elites. Both agree that the government is incompetent and corrupt. While they disagree on what to do, they both agree that things are fucked. This is a very dangerous place for a country to be. Left unchecked, it’s fatal.
In response, the limp American ‘center’ is just furiously hitting ⌘Z, trying to go back to the Obama era of hope and change. So the same old bullshit with better branding. His undead heir Joe Biden is issuing some bullshit statements, failing to fix some roads, and hoping it all goes away. Meanwhile violent shocks buffet the nation, shattering class relations into a violent, unstable sandstorm of atomized human beings. Coups, coronavirus, financial crashes, military defeats, and worse is on the way. As WB Yeats said, “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
