{"id":28617,"date":"2025-10-15T04:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28617"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:12:28","slug":"politricks-scary-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28617","title":{"rendered":"POLiTRiCKS: Scary Times! Pt. I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ICE pepper-spray Pastor David Black.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sept, 19, Chicago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s amazing how quickly things in the US appear to be \u2018going south\u2019, right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember posting on my mini-military blog, a book review<\/a>, in which I lament the rise of right wing \u2018plopulist\u2019 politics, as a dangerous step towards political and social fragmentation, and thereby possible conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve also coined a few expressions, two of which I\u2019m particularly pleased with: the \u2018shelfie\u2019 (now in popular use), and \u2018plopulism\u2019. The latter being shit ideas that gain socio-political traction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yep.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Farage, Bojo, are all \u2018plopulists\u2019. And the danger they represent covers a spectrum, from – at best – the continued and increasingly unbridled ascendancy of rapine disaster crapitalism (more from Seb\u2019s word-mint!) to – at worst – world war three, and even potential anthropocide, through self-immolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump\u2019s only God (after himself).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As Noam Chomsky points out, the word evil is just nowhere near strong enough to describe these kind of folks; the kind who will gladly sacrifice huge swathes of fellow humans to long slow painful deaths, via poverty, ill-health, and suchlike, or more quickly (but no less traumatically) in war, and poison our very life support system – Earth, herself – in pursuit of immeasurable personal wealth and power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Better than the official poster\u2026*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Several movies seem prescient right now: Idiocracy<\/a><\/em> (2006), for starters. And, more scarily, Civil War<\/a><\/em> (2024). I\u2019ve thought many times exactly what this reviews\u2019 byline<\/a> states: Idiocracy looks more and more like a tragic documentary, as opposed to a comedic \u2018mockumentary\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John\u2019s right. Facebook screenshot\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And Trump et al\u2019s vigorous efforts at provoking their \u2018enemies\u2019 look shamefully and blatantly like an attempt to precipitate civil unrest\/war. We haven\u2019t reached the bodies burned in pits stage yet. But Republican use of naked and unaccountable force already resembles Hitler\u2019s use of the SA and SS, against their chosen scapegoats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If those Americans who can see these fascist goons for what they are – and there seem to be plenty who do – don\u2019t act en masse, decisively and immediately, Trump, and his lunatic enablers and moron minions, might drag all of us into very <\/em>dark times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s amazing how quickly things in the US appear to be \u2018going south\u2019, right now. I remember posting on my mini-military blog, a book review, in which I lament the rise of right wing \u2018plopulist\u2019 politics, as a dangerous step towards political and social fragmentation, and thereby possible conflict. I\u2019ve also coined a few expressions, … <\/p>\n

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