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I guess it goes to show, the empire really has one note to play these days: violence. If that note fails, they literally don't know what else to do: "Have we tried violence yet? Yes? What if we do more of it though?"
In part it's because the empire is a corpse running on inertia, so more finessed strategies that might prolong an empire are being abandoned. The circles in charge now dream of nothing more than making use of it while it's still around.
Yeah, makes sense. I'd say part of it is probably a product of short-term business thinking taking over so much and part of it is a consequence of the spectacle dance between neocon and neolib admins swapping places struggling to stay alive. So then you get a guy like Trump whose MO has no apparent sustainability to it, or respect for the existing two-party facade, and becomes this sort of "how much can the empire belligerently reassert itself while he's still in power". Just speedrunning running the empire like a mob boss, which is doing some damage to others but is also hastening the empire's demise, since you can't really finesse it with long-term payoffs when your MO is brazen and belligerent intimidation. It's hard to imagine what the US will look like post-Trump. I don't think it can just go back to swapping out neocon and neolib admins every 4-8 years. And the liberals are too feckless to oppose fascism. So I don't see the bougie electoral system surviving as it is.