The Myth of System Change. And The Heroes That Actually Make It Happen

Systems never change. First, they fail the people, and then they are demolished by the people. America is becoming witness to its own painful, but beautiful demolition. People are refusing to buy. They are seeing through exploitative employers. They are waking up to a rotten system than never “had their back”. And they are resisting the dictatorship with every opportunity.

It takes a lot to wake up a farm of consumatrons sedated by Netflix and addicted to high fructose corn bullshit of “American freedom” for decades. But it is happening. Support for the dictatorship is collapsing in the polls. There is a quiet revolution taking place.

This week the Orange Blob closed the Kennedy Centre for good after 55 years in operation, after every single artist that was scheduled to perform cancelled their appearance in what is now yet another sacred memorial desecrated by MAGA Nazis. The renaming of the venue to Trump Kennedy Centre has made it toxic to every art form that exists. You perform there, you’re a Nazi sympathizer. Your career is ruined. Except of course for Nicki Minaj. Maybe she’ll host an Epstein-style closed-doors event for Trump and his oligarchs and reveal all, though honestly, I see more of a Ghislane Maxwell role for her.

The human cost of this closed venue is immense: lost jobs for thousands of staff and visiting performers. But the message is clear: we won’t perform in the name of a Nazi who murders Americans on the street. Who bullies the rest of the world. Who accelerates the climate crisis. These are the heroes of the ongoing American Resistance who, in my honest opinion, should one day be commemorated on a plaque right outside the Kennedy Centre:

• Philip Glass
• Low Cut Connie
• Rhiannon Giddens
• Kristy Lee
• Balún
• The Cookers
• Béla Fleck
• Chuck Redd
• Magpie
• Brentano Quartet with Hsin-Yun Huang
• “Asian AF” comedy show
• Issa Rae
• Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda / producers)

So please, stop asking me how I propose we change this capitalist system that always leads to fascism. You know the answer well: you can’t reform a system while the system is still in place. You need to demolish it, and this is why American politics is in need of a large-scale demolition. Both Republicans and Democrats are constitutionally illegal organisations: they lobby themselves into power, collude with corporations to abuse American citizens, and sponsor violence and genocide across the world. Both the world and America deserve better. But before they do, it is time for a restart, not a pause. Only a thorough disinfection can save this place, and this happens by a people’s revolution that overthrows the government, creates a new constitution, new executive structures of power, and installs internationally recognized democratic processes (i.e. no gerrymandering, no electoral colleges etc). All of these processes have been absent in the USA from its very beginning.

Until all this happens, every time you walk by the Kennedy Center you will see your dictator’s name emblazoned above JFK’she Kennedy Center you will see your dictator’s name emblazoned above JFK’s

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