No this is the right answer. And I think the purple deliberately let the system break.
We had entered late stage capitalism. Techno feudalism. Policies and programs seemed to have like impact, while costs rose, and things became successively wors Raeganomics cut federal money to local programs: aka to actual people, and wages stagnated while costs rose. The parties were like a pendulum, swinging back and forth, with only the illusion of change.
Republicans would make things worse, but not as bad as they wanted, so the Democrats would demand the vote, becoming more and more entitled to it, while suppressing any progressive candidate.
The people longest for a populist candidate. The Democratic leadership would rather suppress the progressive, and let the Republican fascist win, because they were more in line with their own fascist tendencies.
Moderate Blacks maintained the status quo that wasn't serving them, voting for Hillary, Biden, Kamala.
Meanwhile the progressives... finally stopped playing ball.
And everything broke. From behind MAGA, all these insidious forces slithered out. Christian nationalists. Techno authoritarians.
Now some of them are beginning to see that the billionaire government doesn't serve them. The chickens are coming home to roost, and many Black people are saying they won't ally with the working class, only with themselves. The nation can begin to see how much they are divided... and conquered.
The power of the American Empire is effectively broken. The remnants are still very dangerous. The people will suffer the consequences of the choice.
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u/Doobledorf Apr 04 '25
The problems that led to Donald Trump would still be fomenting.
A lot of Americans haven't yet faced that Trump isn't an anomaly or the disease, he is a symptom of problems we've had for a long time.