Political Memes

Jamille Bouie gave a (brief) deep dive into the similarities and differences between the two parties (here on YouTube).

Both parties have a history of being influenced by business interests over public interests (especially after Reagan, and lobbyists and special interest groups were legally given access to elected officials).

However, the Republican party is openly and deliberately trying to unmake elections in the US at federal and state levels to gain a permanent majority all three branches of government, to turn the US into a one-party autocracy. Meanwhile, the Republican led government is borrowing money at an accelerated rate and funneling it into the pockets of plutocrats and conglomerate megacorporations through government contracts and subsidies.

(And once those plutocrats are done financializing the US into ruin, they will move on to the rest of the developed world, which they can alread easily afford to do. We're seeing signs of it already.)

ETA One morning later, it occurs to me when Republican rule is secured, it's in the interests of the oligarchal plutocrats and businesses to then shrink or eliminate the legislature, say by forcing them to sign an enabling act.

Fewer officials means fewer bribes. It also means fewer lobbyists. (According to How Money Works, the lobbyists and lobbyist-like employees in Washington number in the six digits, a veritable army compared to the officials they're there to petition.)

So it's actually in everyone's best interest to approach single-party autocracy but not actually achieve it. Especially since part of the bribery scheme is to hire retired officials as lobbyists.

I wonder if they collectively have this foresight, or are careening towards their own obsolescence like fossil fuel industrialists towards climate destabilization.