I hear and feel a lot of folks having decision paralysis after the re-election of Drump. First thing. Don’t panic. We have had a few weeks for this to settle in. We might be able to plan and organize possible scenarios, but until the GOP has all the levers of power, we have no idea what they will do.
Any way you dice this, it’s going to be a three-ring circus. Just watch out what for what is happening in the ring you have your eyes off of. Lucky that we will have so many people looking. Just think that right now folks are making a big stink about Drump taking over Greenland or the Panama Canal. Likely to happen? No. But it sure gets your mind of all the other things that might be about to go down.
Really right now it is a waiting game. Everything that is going to happen is really going to be coming hard and fast. We are getting an idea of what kind of executive orders he will sign on the first day. I have the notion that the number is going to be staggering. Up side is that many of those might get challenged in court.
What the House is going to drop on his desk first day is a real question. Already the GOP is planning on using reconciliation process to bypass the normal process of bill creation. There might not be much of anything that the Dems are going to be able to do about it.
This is the time to get on the phone to the right-wing members and really give them a piece of your mind. It might fall on deaf ears. But they will get the message. If they aren’t really doing the work for the working class, they are nothing more than stooges to the likes of Elon Musk.
All the capitalist class are showing their stripes. So many are changing tunes and getting on the MAGA wagon. A bunch are ending DEI positions and turning less “woke.” Whatever that seems to mean at the moment. This shouldn’t be a shock. They are in it to make money. And they are seeing the promise of so much that might be ended as a program of the government and turned over to private companies. Their companies.
My worry is how much damage that the GOP and the capitalist class are going to be able to inflict on workers and the ordinary Americans. If people thought the household budget was bad under Biden, what until Drump shits everything up. Right now, he is coming into office with one of the best economies in the world. (Thanks to Biden) The same thing happened last time and he fucked that all up too. (Granted he did mismanage a pandemic.)
Just waiting….on the world to change. That Jack Johnson song is like 20 years old. Things changed and then they didn’t. I have to hope that what we see in Drump and MAGA is a last gasp of a dying idea. Mainly that idea is a religious and racial one. It’s old fables, and pseudo-science. Socially and culturally we have made a lot of progress. Some of that might need to get put on hold to build a backstop so that the progress doesn’t start reversing.
Racial, women’s and gay rights are all in the sites of this current movement. How much those views are going to bleed into the mainstream are something to be seen. I have a feeling there are going to be quite a number of redneck areas in the US. Much like the rest of the world.
This is a fight for healthcare, that is something that the right has understood for a long time. Access to reproductive health, HIV Prep drugs, and better access for minority and POC are battle grounds.
Workers rights affect nearly all of us. The fight for safe working conditions, health, and the right to organize need to be fought for even harder. More inroads of the labor movement need to be made in the key service industries.
The truth is that this administration is not going to be a friend to working-class folks. Even the folks who voted for Drump out of spite or the desire for change. MAGA is not the solution for the majority. It is the mindset of a minority who wants to impose its will on the majority. We are entering a period of minority rule. The MAGA and right-wing have control of the branches of government. The longest lasting and the hardest to turn around are going to be the courts.