Nah. America isnt there yet. 24hr corporate news, negative incentives from social media, unions on life support, weak legislation on corporations, remnants of red scare propaganda and ol fashioned racism summoned Donald trump.
In the 1930s, severe poverty, in person communication and organizing, organized labor, and the threat of mass violence(at this time there had been battles in the street with workers being shot dead by law enforcement and privately hired security) summoned FDR who essentially promised to reign in capitalism while at the same time listening to the working man and ignoring the orthodox advice to produce the golden age of the working class.
America isnt at the level of suffering it needs to be at before you get a progressive turn. What's going to have to happen is:
-More foreign investment leaves the country and the rich and middle/upper middle class people increase their positions in Asian, Latin American and European stocks and bonds, ESPECIALLY Asia.
-Israel support basically puts politicians on the same level as those who supported war in Iraq. Essentially tanking their chances of staying in congress.
- White unemployment nears double digits even though people are seeing with their own eyes, immigrants being deported.
-people unplug from social media and podcasts because they cant afford internet anymore(the price went up or they lost their jobs)
-Union membership rises.
-The age group that fondly remembers America before the civil rights movement die or become too frail to show up to the polls.
-corporate news continues to lose viewers and starts desperately trying to reflect reality as it is, instead of how the heads of CNN etc. Want it to be.
Right now the only peoples interests that are being represented by mainstream media and the government is the interests of white men with money. Not the poor, not, the working class, and sure as fuc not black people. You'll need leaderS who pop up in each city and each state who represent the interests of people, not capital.
Those leaders will be media trained, they will have experienced struggle, or will have genuine respect and enough sanity to realize americas true strength is its workers and not their bosses. They'll be attacked by both Republicans and democrats who don't want the status quo to change. They'll thug it out and just keep standing on business. They'll link up with other representatives from other states and get on the same page when it comes to advancing the agenda of the brutally beaten working and middle class in this country. Its going to take a MOVEMENT with strong, credible leaders to undo this shyt.
That movement will take at least another 2 or 3 presidential cycles to build unless war comes to American soil.
. We have a center, center-right, right and fascist/far right. Billionaires have succeeded in convincing a good chunk of the electorate that giving up their rights and livelihood is good.
You hit the nail on the head with that. A really big problem that does not get talked about enough by Democratic supporters is that old and new media is owned by billionaire Republicans, MAGA or dark MAGA supporters.
