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<span style="background-color: black;"><b>2020-09-08:</b></span> Is POTUS a Bullshit Job, in David Graeber's sense? Maybe when it's occupied by an innocuous figure like an Eisenhower or Clinton or Obama or any normal occupant before the current one. Trump reflects the real character of a large swathe of the US population which feels it has nowhere to go but with him and if he loses as he likely will, Biden/Harris is not going to change them into something they aren't since <b><i>their</i></b> base shares much of that character as well and they are only opposed to it in a superficial partisan way. If he wins, then that character will become an existential issue for those that don't share it (the educated and progressive) and thus for the current nation state, as slavery was at its last such conjuncture. As Chris Hedges put it in a recent sermon where he says he will vote for the Green candidate, this year you get your choice of representative of the oligarchy. The out of power party is betting if they can punt with at least four more years of Clinton/Obama, by 2024 the demographic shift will be sufficiently complete in their favor that whatever form Trumpism takes by that time will be unable to have more than a regional effect. The unaddressed contradiction is that in any national election, | <span style="background-color: black;"><b>2020-09-08:</b></span> Is POTUS a Bullshit Job, in David Graeber's sense? Maybe when it's occupied by an innocuous figure like an Eisenhower or Clinton or Obama or any normal occupant before the current one. Trump reflects the real character of a large swathe of the US population which feels it has nowhere to go but with him and if he loses as he likely will, Biden/Harris is not going to change them into something they aren't since <b><i>their</i></b> base shares much of that character as well and they are only opposed to it in a superficial partisan way. If he wins, then that character will become an existential issue for those that don't share it (the educated and progressive) and thus for the current nation state, as slavery was at its last such conjuncture. As Chris Hedges put it in a recent sermon where he says he will vote for the Green candidate, this year you get your choice of representative of the oligarchy. The out of power party is betting if they can punt with at least four more years of Clinton/Obama, by 2024 the demographic shift will be sufficiently complete in their favor that whatever form Trumpism takes by that time will be unable to have more than a regional effect. The unaddressed contradiction is that in any national election, | ||
about 30% of the electorate decides because 45% don't vote.<br> | about 30% of the electorate decides because 45% don't vote.<br> | ||
<span style="background-color: black;"><b>2020-11-14:</b></span> In this one it was more like 40% partly from Buck turning out his non voting base and otherwise a general tiredness of the winning. Xi has acknowledged and all 50 states have been called with 306 for Biden so the single act of the Buck show comes to it's expected end with he and Putin awaiting events. | <span style="background-color: black;"><b>2020-11-14:</b></span> In this one it was more like 40% partly from Buck turning out his non voting base and otherwise a general tiredness of the winning. Xi has acknowledged and all 50 states have been called with 306 for Biden so the single act of the Buck show comes to it's expected end with he and Putin awaiting events. The clarity of the impending redivision in North America would seem like the point from which the recombination in the discussion on the obverse commenced. | ||
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