He’s guaranteed to lose now. I can’t see a universe where the mental gymnastics add up to deciding that this is a good idea. Don’t get me wrong, it’d be funny as hell. But I’m really not looking forward to the idea of more Trump.

You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context

The old(est) guard and the functionally apolitical consultant/finance lanyards who honestly do just as well or better when the dems aren’t in power. With the young(er) generation and B-tier of operatives now realising that the damage being done, to the party and the recent supreme court decision etc, might be too much to simply wait for their turn

This is part of why I think there’s a huge liberal panic about how Trump being president again will destroy all of democracy or whatever. Because part of the Project 2025 stuff involves firing vast leagues of lanyard dorks and replacing them with hogs. Who knows if that would actually happen, but that’s mostly afraid of losing their jobs.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Who knows if that would actually happen

It’s how the federal government was run for the first hundred years

permalink
report
parent
reply
21 points

Exactly. It’s not about ‘democracy’. It’s about the right building a fortress within power structure of the country that excludes the bipartisan/democrat lanyard class.

permalink
report
parent
reply
22 points

That’s the sliver of that lives within me. From a Marxist perspective, is a state full of Democrat lanyards better than a state full of rabidly anti-worker chud lanyards, so that labor can organize with fewer legal barriers? Or would unmasking the state as an explicitly bourgeois institution help radicalize the working class and heighten the contradictions? Is there necessarily a “better” option relating to the ideological composition of the state, or is it irrelevant because of the fundamental bourgeois nature of the state regardless of who the lanyards are?

permalink
report
parent
reply

Or would a state full of chud lanyards be so incompetent that organizing would be easier? I guess we’ll find out since none of this is really in our control in the first place. Full machinations of capital

permalink
report
parent
reply

I assume the state is hostile to our interests no matter who is in power. While, yes, having the IRS filled with hogs would suck… the IRS already sucks.

The biggest change I can see is a federal government suddenly becoming hostile to whatever they call “woke”. I expect we need to step up to protect federal employees who are LGBT, not Christian, etc. But again, Democrats aren’t helping these folks in the states right now so IDK.

It sucks 😬

permalink
report
parent
reply

It will absolutely happen. Trump reclassified tons of workers in the executive branch as easier to fire and even fought a court case to let him leave them that way.

permalink
report
parent
reply

chat

!chat@hexbear.net

Create post

Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.

As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.

Thank you and happy chatting!

Community stats

  • 1.4K

    Monthly active users

  • 3.2K

    Posts

  • 56K

    Comments