They aren't the primary villains, but they're sure as shit the bumbling secondary antagonists.
If there is anything I have learned in my life, it is that fascism can only be defeated through violence. You can't talk to an ork and convince it that it is doing wrong, you can only chop off it's head.
Damn Pippin catching some strays here.
I like to think he represents the naive but genuine goodwill of the "blue no matter who" crowd that subscribe to the just world fallacy, believe the Democrats are "doing their best," and that the system is still capable of self-repair despite those mechanisms having been dismantled decades ago by the capitalists and their captured government.
The I do believe in ~~fairies~~ the benevolence of free market forces neoliberal voter that needs to pretend if they just go to work and keep their head down everything will normalize. If Citizens United didn't spell out that our current constitutional framework was dead and well into decomposition, you're hopeless.
I think that's a pretty fair assessment, although I wouldn't consider Pippin (nor naive good faith Democrats) as antagonists.
I would also point out that while being a giant pain in the ass during the journey, Middle Earth falls without his actions.
Worse imo, the sliding decline in living standards that the neoliberals oversaw is the exact reason why fascism is on the rise. It's as if Denethor created orcs, because it makes line go up.
Wormtongue is the Russian trolls
Finally! Someone taking on those damned . . . *checks notes* . . . neo- . . liberals
Just like before the election, too. That's just quality backbiting there. It's no wonder that . . . whatever this is, is so frightfully popular.
More measles anyone?
Whether we got here in 2020, 2024, or 2028, this is where the neoliberal/fascist capitalist jihad was heading.
They both serve the same masters and play good cop bad cop while exploiting us to death for their wealthy bribers.
And I vote blue out of slight harm reduction, not hope, because being murdered in swaths for shareholder private profits is better with affirmation ribbons than scapegoats, but we're sinking under either and have been for half a century.
There's a reason Democrat leadership spent the month before Trump took power safeguarding power from AOC. Republicans are their esteemed opposition, they keep the bipartisan bribe fountain running. If the DNC were taken over by an actual left trying to reign in the murderous capital markets, that fountain would stop. The Neoliberals and the DNC would treat an AOC insurgency with the urgency we wish they'd treat Trump.
And I vote blue out of slight harm reduction
These days it would be so much more than slight. Oh well.
If i have lung cancer in my left lung and my oncology team is deciding between removing the right lung or giving me saline injections, picking the saline injections isn't "harm reduction". It's allowing the cancer to grow and spread.
Not every metaphor works.
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