It’s just the normal course of empire. Rise and fall, Solve et coagula. Parasites and infections take over their host if not treated. Superficially changing political parties every few years does nothing, because it’s treating the symptoms and not the disease.
Yes the fuck it has, and really it was the inevitable result. This is not just a spontaneous development, this is the result of decades of moral and financial corruption. We would like to absolve ourselves of complicity but the reality is that each American, in their own small way, has contributed to the systemic corruption we all suffer from. It’s a difficult thing. Many of us, most of us suffer disproportionately to the aristocracy, yet we carry on, and we let them continue with their schemes. We could easily topple them, wrestle the levers of power from their wretched, traitorous hands, but we don’t.
Joe Biden and the Democratic Party leadership are part-and-parcel to this. The downfall of Iran has been continuous American policy for over 40 years, and the party has acts as a honeypot to capture and neutralize progressive policies and politicians, and stop the Overthrow Window from moving leftward. No more opposition to war, no more economic populism, no more social safety net. All they do is run “block tackle” for neoconservatives. The uniparty could not be more obvious right now.
They are doing this deliberately to keep Americans confused, and so the biased can pick the narrative that best suits them. Americans are very superficially engaged in what’s happening abroad, so any propaganda will do until it becomes an existential crisis.
There is also a contingent of Iraq war veterans who have an ax to grind with Iran for having to fight their proxies and others armed by them. Expect to hear from these people in the coming days.
A Fred Hampton license plate would be pretty sweet