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You could write that in a tv show and people would say it's funny but too far fetched. Look at american movies and tv shows. The preside t is a smart, grey haired dude who has everything under control. I wonder if there will ever be a movie with an obese president who can't read and shits his pants.
It could be a 2 minute SNL skit. But you're not getting a whole show out of this.
There will probably be a show/shows that are based on this about 20-40 years after Trump and Trumpism dies.
I really hope we get through this, and all the people who supported trump are convicted of crimes against humanity or something. We can't just keep letting conservatism break out every couple decades like a herpes infection.
The only way to permenantly stop conservatism is to abolish capitalism. When you have a system where people are allowed to hold power over other people, those powerful people will work to gain more power by any means necessary.
Force all corporations to be worker owned coops, which will also have the effect of abolishing the stock market.
Tax all wealth above $50m at a rate of 100%, creating a hard wealth cap of $50m.
Provide all basic necessities to everyone free of charge paid for by tax dollars. Food, water, housing, sewage, trash, healthcare, etc. Anyone who wants to live in a situation beyond just the basic necessities can choose to work, but work should be a choice, especially with how advanced automation technologies are becoming.
There are also additional ideas like the ones in the solarpunk movement (library economy, focus on integration of nature with society, etc.) that are worth striving for.
Right. We could argue details but that's more or less acceptable to me.
But getting to somewhere like that from here is a real uphill battle.
I've posted it a bunch lately but it really does feel like people hate all the pieces of capitalism without realizing they're all connected.
This is in large part due to Joe McCarthy, Ronald Reagan, and co. making the words "communist" and "socialist" socially unacceptable by kicking off the Red Scare in the 1950s. Can't critique capitalism in those days without being called a Commie and losing your job.
It stopped being conservatism a while ago. It's eugenics. Oligarchic capitalism, racism and genocidal fascism wearing the skin of conservatisms hollowed husk
The American right has been like this since at least the civil war with the Confederates, if not even further back, going back to the elitists during the founding of the country who "compromised" with the anti-elitists to have less democracy, like having the senate consist of two voting members per state, regardless of population, the electoral college, allowing slavery to exist, and no federal direct ballot initiatives.
Because the elites know best, right?
Hitler specifically took inspiration from the Confederacy for his Third Reich.