When This Blows Over

The current Democratic gerontocracy [govt by elders] is
just as Plutocratic as its Republican counterpart, and
neither is capable of righting the ship. All their eggs are in
the Neoliberal basket. Both Parties have long since
abandoned all pretense of addressing an actual constituency
or dealing with social issues. They have put their trust in
the power of the "free market" and abandoned the notion
that government has any actual role to play, other than
the imperial one of fighting the so-called War on Terror.
There are no free market solutions to America's current
woes, any more than there are for Britain, or France, or any
other country trapped in the globaloney peddled by the
Plutocrats for the last thirty-odd years.
It is an error (to my mind) to deride The Donald as "fascist" while
refraining from such language when describing, say, Pelosi. Her nest is as
finely feathered as his. And what is at issue here is not classic fascism of
the militarized 1930s type. What we are all ensnared by is best described
as Free Market Fascism ~~ i.e. the illusion that "free markets" can solve
all social problems and governments have no real or essential functions.
That is the root cause of our current malaise. Everyone
drank the globalist kool aid because after all "Marx is Dead!"
and (we were loudly told) "there is no alternative". So: now,
we're waking up to find ourselves impoverished, in debt, and
in despair in a bleak, unsustainable landscape and we must
begin again the process of imagining alternatives. But: In
America, as in Europe, the corporatist voice has the
megaphone and the Plutocrats have the political reins.