{"id":5428,"date":"2022-01-06T20:39:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T04:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5428"},"modified":"2022-01-06T20:50:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T04:50:46","slug":"we-need-more-of-this-but-wont-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5428","title":{"rendered":"We Need More of This\u2026 but Won&#8217;t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Biden&#8217;s much-belated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-speech-jan6\/2022\/01\/06\/20a7c56e-6f1a-11ec-b9fc-b394d592a7a6_story.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-speech-jan6\/2022\/01\/06\/20a7c56e-6f1a-11ec-b9fc-b394d592a7a6_story.html\">decision to speak forcefully<\/a> about the coup attempt a year ago is exactly the sort of thing we need more of. Alas, odds strongly disfavor seeing much more of it. Everything I have observed about the Democratic Party points to its almost total uselessness as an institution when it comes to confronting fascism and preserving democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And lo, in the article linked to above, we see the following: &#8220;Biden\u2019s remarks do not mark a permanent shift in strategy about how to handle Trump, according to the president\u2019s aides and allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There really is no plausible scenario for the next forty of fifty years except for the USA to become a fascist state much like Portugal under Salazar or Spain under Franco. That will do the historically necessary task of burning the Democratic Party to the ground. Then, eventually, a better generation of Americans, painfully cleansed of the shortcomings that paved way for Trumpist fascism, can rise and burn the Republican Party to the ground, a task even more historically necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of all those ashes there will be hope for something better, but only then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m wrong. I <em>hope<\/em> I&#8217;m wrong. But all the evidence I see today points to a scenario similar to the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden&#8217;s much-belated decision to speak forcefully about the coup attempt a year ago is exactly the sort of thing we need more of. Alas, odds strongly disfavor seeing much more of it. Everything I have observed about the Democratic Party points to its almost total uselessness as an institution when it comes to confronting fascism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5432,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}