alcoholicorn

Their role is entirely dependent on maintaining the cult of personality and calling for the blood of those who are accused of dysloyalty.

You're not looking at this from a systemic perspective.

Their role is winning their own elections. Everything else must be secondary, since if it wasn't they'd be replaced by someone else who does.

I'm talking about the people who run the machinery of the evil empire that turns the suffering and continued immiseration of billions into profits for the shareholders of the most destructive companies, I'm not under any impression that these people have morals I can recognize.

The US party system is extremely effective at keeping threats to capital out of power.

The country is 3 corporations in a trenchcoat. If Trump threatened the corporations those same republicans campaigns need to get elected, those republicans would have to either lose their seats or get rid of Trump.

How many of those senators depend on MIC lobbying to keep their seats?

There's lines a president can't cross, threatening the jobs 50+ senators is one of them.

Lotta scratched liberals around these days.

So are battery trains expensive in the long run and have worse performance, and only being used because they're immediately cheaper than electrifying more rail?

Trump would be impeached if he tried. You think Raytheon and Boeing can't buy enough congressmen to impeach him?

Did the UK not electrify their rail network??

No not at all, hence why I'm not antidemocratic. Democracy didn't give us Trump, the dictatorship of capital did.

Apparently it's too subtle for anyone who didn't interpret it as antidemocratic.

The joke is how unfortunately prophetic it is.

Do you think the US is meaningfully democratic? When's the last time any leader did something that favored the people over capital?