In a way yes.

He's the instrument of the movement that forced through all those changes.

I used to think exactly that in the distant past: That if he comes to power, it will be the end of every good thing. Now I think it would have happened regardless, that the base trend was there and it wouldn't have mattered which side won each time, at most it may have accelerated or decelerated it a bit but things would have ended up in the same place. If the Trump figure we know didn't exist, humanity would have found someone else to fill that role, which I think we'll be seeing in most nations (eg: Milei in Argentina). The division is there regardless and everything seems unfixable to me at least, since whether by Trump or someone / something else a big can of worms was opened and the toothpaste can't be put back in the tube.

Get ready for a gut retching truth bomb.

To the teaparty and the neo-cons, Obama was their Trump. They saw him *exactly* the same way you're describing, and they reacted to him in much the same ideological, self destructive way the neo-liberal and rainbow contingent is reacting to Trump. It's actually really interesting, but depressing, watching the whole teaparty thing play out for a second time, on a difference side, with a different dogma, and neither side learning anything in the process.

The mirror goes a lot deeper than this, though. Obama also did the same sorts of things people complain about Trump doing when he was in office. Do you remember Tom Wheeler? Obama's FCC guy. He worked as a venture capitalist and lobbyist for the cable and phone industry, prior to becoming FCC chairman. JUST LIKE AJIT PAI. Wheeler didn't go the way that the telecoms wanted, he caved to the public, but he was the EXACT SAME TYPE OF PERSON THAT TRUMP PUT IN CHARGE, and he held the door open for Ajit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler

In some cases, Obama did things that were much worse, and far more "fascist," as it were. A notable example, is how he basically shot habeas corpus dead in broad daylight.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases.....ntion-bill-law

If you've ever wanted to see what a real world, physically verifiable slippery slope looks like, it's that. Imagine what McCarthy could have done with this. We're lucky that it hasn't been heavily abused. Yet. It needs to be repealed before someone abuses it, but it's unlikely that it will be, as I can't see any of the corrupt politicians disarming themselves like that.

Obama also made many of the same promises as Trump to the rust belt swing states, such as tariffs and a return of American industry and working class jobs. Also much like Trump did during his first term (and will ultimately do in his second), he failed to adequately deliver on the much needed trade regulation and industrial stimulus.

The thing to understand is this failure wasn't on accident, or simply because of opposition. Obama had a super majority for a time, he and the other democrats could have forced through the public option like he promised, they could have pushed through protectionist legislation to help encourage American industry, they could have put in place much more iron clad banking regulation to stop 2007/2008 from happening again.

They didn't do much of anything, because they don't serve the republic. They serve business. All these crooks, Trump and Kamala included, are there to do two things: Serve themselves, and hold the door open for business.

Don't even get me started on Clinton: He passed all the deregulation and "welfare reform" that the republicans could ever dream of. See, each side of the two party cult system immediately goes to sleep when their candidate is in office. This means Democrats often end up passing some of the most Republican policy, simply because their own side will actively resist ever acknowledging that they've been conned by their own team.

A great example of this is how Clinton hacked up glass-steagal regulation, which directly contributed to the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Not only did a democrat fail to adequately address the problem, the one prior caused it with deregulation. So much of what Clinton did when he was in office was nothing else than Reaganite and Thatcherite "free market" policy, and every single president since the 80s, including the so called "communist" or "leftist" ones, has pushed the exact same kind of hyper capitalist policy, or at a bare minimum helped to maintain the status quo.

All that changes is what particular culture or cult ideology is tangentially represented by whatever con artists currently dominate the government the most.

Libertarians are included in this. They're part of the republican party "three legged stool," which in reality has dozens of legs. This is where the term "basket of deplorables" actually comes from: The republican party is an intersectional movement, just like LGBTQ.

In the case of Libertarians, this is their "free market" in action. Which is to say, libertarian policy is the same policy that lead to everything from the housing crisis and Blackrock owning all the real estate, to the unchecked and uncontrolled growth and power of big tech, big pharma and investment firms, to the working class having their jobs destroyed via outsourcing, to the rich and powerful owning the government, guaranteeing them bailouts regardless of how much the libertarians whine about it.

It's even what led to investors being able to trash entire game studios with investment power, so all these right wing man children currently crying about ESG scores and celebrating Concord's failure, are actually crying about a problem THEY created. The "woke mob" is itself just a product of capitalist feudalism. They're not leftists, but rather ethno and gender obsessed authoritarians, fighting capitalist power battles.

There's a reason they had a meltdown when Twitter switched billionaires. To an actual leftist, that shouldn't matter. If anything, Elon's prone to being stupidly idealistic at times, which is actually good for accelerationist strategies.

But you'll never convince any of the man children on either side of this, especially not the libertarians. They thing everyone is a communist, even if that someone is doing exactly what their policy incentivizes and rewards. Because every time this free market garbage fails, they turn around and go "well, that wasn't a REAL free market, we need to deregulate MORE," and then proceed to make the problem worse.

The thing is, this "culture war," all the moral panics we've seen since as far back as the 50s, all the people calling everyone a communist or a bigot, or the pedophile panics and religious panics, and everything else similar under the sun... It's all just a giant circus meant to keep people fighting with each other. The rich and powerful throw gas on all sides of it, whenever it's convenient for them to do so.

The Christians fascists and the woke mob are cut from the same toxic cloth, and fit for the same purpose. And the job of the capitalist owned media, including social media, is similar, and related. It's job is to create such a delusional, toxic information ecosystem, that everyone is trapped in delusions and fighting each other over make believe garbage, while rich industrialists rob every man, woman and child.

If you want to know what the real source of all of our problems today is, and I mean absolutely all of them, you have to go back to when all this started. All our leaders are just carrying out the initiative outlined in something called the Powell memo. It was a blueprint for a bloodless coup of American democracy, sent out by Supreme Court Lewis Powell, before he was signed in as a supreme court justice.

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/demo.....ate-democracy/

The spirit outlined in this document can even be seen to reflect the victimhood complexes of Christians and the "woke mob" alike. EVERYTHING that's gone wrong since the 70s can be seen to have an echo of this initiative. All the weird ideologies, the corporations poising the water supply, the mass, corporate censorship. EVERYTHING. Especially the various mobs cheering all this on.

One of the biggest parts of Powell's initiative was grabbing hold of the means of communication, and all sources of information. Everything from the media and social media, to academia, needed to be under the power of the almighty dollar. And the end result is that nothing anyone believes is real. MSNBC is at war with Trump in the same way that Fox News was at war with Obama, almost none of the narrative they push about their preferred boogiemen is accurate, and both of these events can be traced back to Reagan and Clinton's deregulation of the media. As it used to be ILLEGAL TO PUSH ONE SIDED NARRATIVES.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s.....ton/573742001/

The thing we're up against isn't bad leadership. It's not Trump or Biden or Kamala. It's the information ecosystem itself, and the industry that's behind it. Even the CEOs don't matter too much. Twitter changed CEOs, and nothing really changed. They're still censoring. They're still injecting "context" into people's communications. They're still shaping delusions for the public, or acting as a vehicle for useful delusions, while filtering the ones that threaten the oligarchs.

All that really changed is who's social dogma, who's delusions, is being served the most.

And that's also all that changes when you vote for someone in the US general election.

That is a lot of interesting points. I won't delve into everything: Most are things that are dangerous to talk about on this platform. Even making a basic journal on the election could be a threat for my account somehow, even if I know I didn't say anything wrong or against any known rules nor support anything actually harmful. There's how we interact with a lot of things now, you don't even know what you're supposed to do.

What I can fully state is how I'm just as sick of the excesses, which is why I'm divorced from anything mainstream and following my own path. All those various "sides" claim to be high and mighty yet act in any way but such. I'm sick of all the hateful and entitled and authoritarian behaviors under the banners of good causes. Of everyone "knowing what's best for others" and having to impose their version of good on an entire world by any means necessary... doesn't matter if even the people they're claiming to help all think or feel the same way, accept their version of things or else. Whenever one side wins we're told how the world will now be saved, it never is... whenever a side loses a total disaster is bound to happen without them, it never does.

Every mainstream movement becomes compromised: All I've seen achieved in practice is making one group of people hate the other even more than they might have before, as well as the cause they wanted to defend. It then becomes just nice sounding words that keep being endlessly repeated: You watch the comical scene of the world burning and people rioting while an important figure still holds a speech saying "don't worry we'll bring justice and create a just and fair world for everyone, we will... any second now". Some continue to live charmed by an idea that never materializes, hoping someday it will magically happen without them having to change their approach or consider they might be doing something wrong... those like me grow sick and just move on to withdraw and focus on our circle of friends and taking care of ourselves and our rights, and can't be bothered ever again until we were to see a real solid permanent change if the miracle ever happened.

everyone has their opinion. Jesus is King nonetheless

I respect your opinion