Re: Trump organizing legal version of January 6th

Complacency to the hilt! Reimann is so, so right at what so much of the inf=
luential=20
section of the radical left thinks of the current political situation!

It is unlikely, of course, that the ruling classes will simply shrug as cli=
mate disaster=20
burns up more and more of their countries, but that's what they are doing. =
It is=20
unlikely, of course, that they will simply shrug as their own state apparat=
us is=20
shredded and the past political arrangements they built over decades collap=
ses=20
and the far right spreads, but that's what they are doing.=20

All these things are unlikely. Or are they? Perhaps the real situation is t=
hat it's=20
unlikely that any radical leftists left would believe that these are times =
when=20
nothing essential is going to change, that abrupt catastrophes are unlikely=
 and the=20
old system will simply limp on, but then again so much of it does.

It is the elections, and whether Trump can contest them, that are among the=
 key=20
moments that will show what the real balance of power is in the ruling clas=
s and=20
the real feeling is among the masses. It is empty phrasemongering and=20
complacency to instead resort to the tired old formulas, similar to those w=
e have=20
heard so many times as the old system collapses in one area after another.

-- Joseph Green


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> Marv Gandall lwrote:
> [Edited Message Follows]
> Trump may try to contest the election, of course, but if anything
> the odds are less in his=20
> favour than on his previous attempt in 2020.
>=20
> For Trump to realize his authoritarian ambitions presupposes that
> the ruling class no=20
> longer considers that the two-party system serves its interests -
> especially in its ability to=20
> coopt or crush threats to its property from below;

etc

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