Creating distrust, division, confusion, and chaos, leading to massive societal dysfunction and collapse, is not a bug in the MAGA plan due to incompetence in personnel picks and policy: it’s a very deliberate design feature, and it will have dire global consequences.
And for accelerationists, evangelicals, fundamentalists, and Christian nationalists, it’s all a part of the big plan for the End Times.
Tariffs are imposed and tax cuts are extended yet again to the wealthy; markets crash, the dollar plummets; the US defaults on the national debt; the rich make an unhealthy profit on the downward spiral, from bitcoin and from bailouts; the natives become restless, and for “reasons of national security”, the authorities declare martial law. And “before you can say Jack Robinson”, it's fait accompli.
Added to which, we can only hope and pray that things don't escalate into nuclear war with Russia, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (the informal CRINK alliance), and peacefully protest any such emerging crises, or we'll really be shafted.
As for the planet – though Mother Nature will, as ever, take it in her stride – the elite know full well that our human species faces a grave and even existential threat, and they will retreat to the relative safety of their technofeudal enclaves, where they alone make the rules and the laws; perhaps eventually retreating to Planet B, assuming that the infrastructure for high technology is still functional. Hence the mad dash to develop and harness AI and cryptocurrencies, dismantle federal government, liberal education, and anything even vaguely “woke”, undermine the judiciary, and dump democracy, which they see as outdated and no longer fit for purpose.
And people like Musk, who hold the plausible belief that we live in a simulation, and the misanthropic and anti-empathic belief that the vast majority of humans are non-player characters (NPCs) – mere puppets obeying some unseen programming – will not give a rat's arse for the plight of us lesser mortals, who will be left to fend for ourselves as best we can in a desolate and savage environment.
~ H.M. Forester.
If this resonates with you, you may like “An Unholy Vision, from Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt” (a story of Resistance), with links to the eBook.
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Image: Destruction from the series The Course of Empire / Thomas Cole (1801–1848) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
Description by Thomas Cole: “The picture represents the Vicious State, or State of Destruction. Ages may have passed since the scene of glory – though the decline of nations is generally more rapid than their rise. Luxury has weakened and debased. A savage enemy has entered the city. A fierce tempest is raging. Walls and colonnades have been thrown down. Temples and palaces are burning. An arch of the bridge, over which the triumphal procession was passing in the former scene, has been battered down, and the broken pillars, and ruins of war engines, and the temporary bridge that has been thrown over, indicate that this has been the scene of fierce contention. Now there is a mingled multitude battling on the narrow bridge, whose insecurity makes the conflict doubly fearful. Horses and men are precipitated into the foaming waters beneath; war galleys are contending: one vessel is in flames, and another is sinking beneath the prow of a superior foe. In the more distant part of the harbor, the contending vessels are dashed by the furious waves, and some are burning. Along the battlements, among the ruined Caryatides, the contention is fierce; and the combatants fight amid the smoke and flame of prostrate edifices. In the fore-ground are several dead and dying; some bodies have fallen in the basin of a fountain, tinging the waters with their blood. A female is seen sitting in mute despair over the dead body of her son, and a young woman is escaping from the ruffian grasp of a soldier, by leaping over the battlement; another soldier drags a woman by the hair down the steps that form part of the pedestal of a mutilated colossal statue, whose shattered head lies on the pavement below. A barbarous and destroying enemy conquers and sacks the city. Description of this picture is perhaps needless; carnage and destruction are its elements.”