Were they always this incompetent, or is desperation making the quality of the propaganda fall?
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Looking back... bit of both, I think
Current tactics are very similar to pre-abolition period, where everyone who opposed slavery would endure sustained, but increasingly ridiculous & fatuous attempts at character assassination.
+ some actual assassination attempts, I suppose.
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It's interesting to note that the dems started their delusional death spiral with Trump - "Not my president" etc.
And now the Republicans are running scared before four or so democratic socialist congresswomen.
This could very well end up unravelling the 2-party system.
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I hope for it (which is why I'm a bit skeptical). I think we need the US in the game, and it isn't happening with these mooks in charge.
Confused Dems talk about electoral unity, as if this iteration of their beloved party wasn't itself a breakaway faction formed during a crisis
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I'd rather a country with 20,000+ nukes didn't outright collapse, tbqh.
Although if it's a choice between that, and the US clinging on to power for another 20 years & condemning us to a hothouse earth, we might as well take the risk.
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See also: global market share, speed of innovation, local resource consumption, etc.
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I think innovation has long since stopped being the domain of the US.
Unless you mean in ways to make rich people's lives that bit more convenient and hipsterish.
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I think we're talking past each other. The country best placed to fund green tech, or defund fossil fuels, or change the state of the oil game, is the US.
That will remain true for the entire window of opportunity to do anything except pray, unless the models are very wrong.
If the models are wrong, we may get off easier than expected. If they ain't, it's US or nothing. China will fold if expedient, I'd expect. V. pragmatic regime.
But so long as the US keeps pushing the oil game, folding isn't expedient for China...
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So I'm only talking about the US's (unmerited or dated, perhaps, but still very real) cultural leadership.
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Possibly, but it'd require wholesale systemic change for them to use that potential in a way that isn't imperialistic & neo-colonialist & counter-productive.
Certainly, their 800+ military bases should be retooled for disaster prep & relief, then handed over to host states.
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I think the difficulty of systemic change is oversold as often as it's undersold.
Realistically, it's sufficient for the current US system to collapse, provided the right people manage to seize the momentum.
But the US is such a crazy place, it's hard to predict how it'd go.
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