MikeF<p>JULY 15, 2024<br>The Myth of the Magic Bullet<br>BY TIMOTHY MESSER-KRUSE</p><p>Excellent piece, and this really is the heart of the matter:</p><p>"Trump is not a threat to democracy as much as he is a symbol of its deepening absence. American democracy has been a system that relied on masses of citizens accepting without reflection their own disempowerment. Patriotism, media monopolization, and real economic benefits fogged and anesthetized understanding of the creeping authoritarianism building up beneath the busy-body Progressive reformers, the New Deal technocrats, and the Cold War spooks. Neoliberal policies combined with the collapse of monopolistic control of communications in the twenty-first century has disrupted the mechanisms of knowledge and reassurance. Out of its rubble has arisen both MAGA and the never-Trumpers, the one pretending that the answer to authoritarianism is more authoritarianism, and the other pretending that there is something called democracy to defend. Trump now serves to perpetuate the myth of democracy by establishing its existence in threatening it."</p><p><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/15/the-myth-of-the-magic-bullet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">counterpunch.org/2024/07/15/th</span><span class="invisible">e-myth-of-the-magic-bullet/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://birds.town/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/systemchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemchange</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/electoralpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electoralpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/bourgeoisdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bourgeoisdemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/socialistdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialistdemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/classstruggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classstruggle</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/socialmovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmovement</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/hegemony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hegemony</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/usgovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usgovernment</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/democraticparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democraticparty</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/republicanparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republicanparty</span></a> <a href="https://birds.town/tags/bipartisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bipartisan</span></a></p>
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🤘 The Metal Dog 🤘<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheMetalDogArticleList" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMetalDogArticleList</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BLABBERMOUTH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BLABBERMOUTH</span></a><br>GEORGE LYNCH: 'In Life, A Pure Socialist Democracy Doesn't Really Work'</p><p><a href="https://blabbermouth.net/news/george-lynch-in-life-a-pure-socialist-democracy-doesnt-really-work" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blabbermouth.net/news/george-l</span><span class="invisible">ynch-in-life-a-pure-socialist-democracy-doesnt-really-work</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeorgeLynch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeLynch</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LifeAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LifeAwareness</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialistDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialistDemocracy</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiAuthoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiAuthoritarian</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticalOpinions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalOpinions</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChangeThroughDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChangeThroughDissent</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerToThePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerToThePeople</span></a></p>
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