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The thing most liberals forget is that Americans are a notoriously politically violent bunch. From the Boston Tea Party to armed labour uprisings, from the Black Panthers to white vigilantes, from state crackdowns to citizen riots, the American story has always been soaked in political violence. The so-called “land of the free” has enforced its freedom with fists, guns, and fire.
But over the last 40–50 years, this history was deliberately erased – rewritten, smoothed over, and sold back as Disney-branded rebellion or CNN-framed tragedy. Out of sight, out of mind, out of options. That erasure was bipartisan: Reagan to Clinton, Bush to Obama. The goal was never to release pressure, only to suppress it.
What we’re seeing now is not an “unprecedented crisis.” It’s a return to form. This is the American normal that elitists have spent decades trying to push out of sight. The difference today is simple and deadly: there is no longer any outlet for the pressure. No trusted media. No real opposition party. No economic ladder. No commons to gather in. Just debt, anxiety, and screens.
What shocks the political class isn’t the chaos. It’s that there’s no release valve left, except their own collapse. They’re not afraid of people rising up. They’re afraid the state itself will be held accountable, and lose.
We’ve been here before. The New Deal wasn’t a gift – it was a surrender. After fifty years of robber-baron capitalism, the country was on the brink. Labour revolts, communist organising, anarchist movements – real threats to the state – were everywhere. FDR saw the writing on the wall. The New Deal was a bargain: here’s a little back, don’t take the rest. It worked, temporarily, because people still had leverage.
Since then, every president has tried to keep the lid on, offering less and less while weaponising the “culture war” as distraction. By the Clinton era, the deal was complete:
- Deregulate the economy.
- Outsource everything.
- Privatise what remains.
- Turn politics into spectacle.
- Let the pressure build – but never release it.
And now we’re here, a poisoned society after forty years of #deathcult worship. The political class stands naked before accelerating #climatechaos and social breakdown, stripped of its sacred robes.
- Spiritual poison: stripped rituals, atomised families, forgotten connections.
- Social poison: movements fractured, solidarity lost to infighting.
- Civic poison: institutions hollowed out, education reduced to obedience training.
- Media poison: truth for sale, journalism devalued, platforms weaponised.
- Cultural poison: every feeling a product, every hope a commodity, every act of care reduced to an app.
This should terrify the #nastyfew propping up this system. People are still numbed, distracted, transactioned, algorithmically isolated – barely able to imagine a world otherwise. But the pressure continues to build. The greatest mistake the ruling class has made is believing this can go on forever, that there are no consequences, that people will always submit if fed enough Netflix, fentanyl, and Uber Eats.
History doesn’t work that way. When a government wages war on its own people, it eventually loses, not because the people are strong, but because the state is brittle. The central lie of technocratic rule is that you can govern without trust, coerce without violence, suppress without blowback. That myth has shattered, collapse is no longer a theory, it’s a trajectory.
So what now? We rebuild beyond collapse. This is where our work begins. #OMN, #indymediaback, the #openweb – these aren’t lifestyle choices or nice ideas. They are survival infrastructure.
We can’t wait for a revolution that will never be televised or appear in algorithmic feeds. We can’t expect institutions to reform themselves. We need public spaces without paywalls, media without gatekeepers, technology that serves people, not platforms and governance that grows from below, not imposed from above.
This isn’t just political, it’s existential. The choice isn’t “radicalism” versus “reform,” it’s resistance or thoughtlessness, collapse or commons. You decide.
