Following up on this post, some discussion has ensued in response to Tim's post. See them for context. My response follows:
Yes,
the broader socio-economic conditions, awash in neoliberal capitalism,
has created such inequality across the 99% that the rage among the
masses has reached a tipping point. To wit, Trump beating all the
establishment Republicans. Sanders would likely have done the same were
it not for DNC rigging. So the table is amply set for either a
progressive or regressive revolution. Hartmann gives a good summary
here.
Given Clinton is more of a neoliberal than
progressive, at least some of the disillusioned liberals will turn to
Trump or go to Stein. Trump has a real chance of winning, and Michael
Moore thinks he will. Given Trump's undeniable propensities, his
giant ego one of them, and the socio-economic conditions as they are,
the zeitgeist could very well swell that ego to such potentials.
We
can see what he already IS from a lifetime history of being THE boss of
his empire, treating his employees like shit, moving jobs overseas
where there are little to no worker protections or minimum wages, buying
off politicans for business favors (the Clintons among them), not
paying his workers, filing lawsuits every time he turns around at the
slightest perceived and often imagined insult. And lest we forget the comments about Mexicans, Muslims and women?
Combine that with the GOP
agenda, already enacted with promises of much more of the same, and we
get very near to the sort of fascism that is oligarchic business control
of government. We're already most of the way there. You think Trump and
the GOP aren't going to take us the rest of the way based on their
proven history? Including unprovoked war and nationalistic jingos? Remember Iraq and Afghanistan?
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