Trump is what happens to a country when it stops caring about politics and outsources democracy to corporate investors. I’ve lived 12 years in the US. Whenever I attempted to start a political conversation with an American, I would be interrupted by “OMG did you see that show on TV last night? It was hilarious”. … Continue reading When Politics Dies
I understand that many Democrat voters at this stage hate Republicans so much. After all, their fundamental human rights are being attacked. What I don’t understand though is how naïve Democrats are to not be able to diagnose the issue, what brought us here. They are supposed to be the "smart, educated" ones and they … Continue reading This American Hate
The problem with the Democratic Party is that it became consumed with defining itself as the opposite of Trump, rather than carving its own identity. Usually when someone defines themselves based on someone else, it means that they’ve got nothing to say. And in this case, it also meant that they had something to hide. … Continue reading Why The Democrats Were Always Set To Lose
24 hours after the US election 400 of my X followers disappeared, and the list just keeps growing. Fellow climate activists reported similar figures. I guess all those bots aren’t needed now that Putin, Trump and Musk, with the help of Kamala and her BAU friends, have achieved their objective to put the climate crisis … Continue reading Truth Wars: The Bot Industry of Climate Denial
The result of the American election exemplifies a pattern witnessed multiple times throughout the history of human civilisation. A hungry and angry electorate will always imagine witches they need to burn and fascist saviours they desperately want to believe. But this need for modern-day witches and false saviours reached a flashpoint in recent years, as … Continue reading When Hunger Turns to Hate, And Global Capital Cashes In On The Spectacle (Yet Again): The Tsakraklides View on the US Election.
George Tsakraklides 