Trumpism is about using existing prejudices and distrust to enable the final stage of a decades' long project to dismantle government as a means of helping people.

Congress isn't going to help anyone besides the wealthy and powerful. It's there as an illusion.
We've seen this throughout our history. Representative government was meant as a means of channeling public sentiment into a body intended to either redirect anger or just disperse it.

That changed for awhile, but it's worse now than nearly any other time.
The pandemic has made it disturbingly clear that our government is not there to help anyone. It's there to oversee the redistribution of our wealth and to manage artificial austerity.

These stimulus packages are a joke, a distraction from the incompetence of government.
We simply do not have to live like this. We do not have to suffer like this. We do not have to accept a country with this kind of wanton death and destruction, but our system has been constructed purposefully like this.
Again. And this cannot be stressed enough.

Trump is a symptom, not the disease.

Something major has to change or else this will continue and grow worse and worse. I'm sorry, but that's the honest to god truth.
This entire political system is so beholden to private interests and the carrying out of corporate will that in the face of anything public-related it simply freezes and collapses into impotent gestures of concern and partisan symbolism.

Something has to change.
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