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It is time for my weird german hot take: The U.S. (and maybe the west at large tbh) is kind of in a death rattle already. Democracy has been in decline atleast since 9/11, but arguably sooner. Fatcs do not even matter anymore in the U.S. and while trenches become deeper and deeper another grisly conflict can seem imminent.
Nobody likes their lives to uprooted so in my eyes the Epstein Files, whatever they contain, bring the promise of reform. People believe that once these files are released, the guilty people will be removed from power and thus reason and justice can be restored.
I am extremely doubtful that this is the case. At best the democrats have been a power of status quo and not of reform. At worst they too have accelerated the decline of our vision for a prosperous future by doing some of that sweet neoliberalism.
How will the release of the Epstein Files change anything and how are we now to believe that these have not been altered waaaaay beyond what they contained initially? The answer is: Nothing will change and the people will continue to believe that their side is right and the other ones are the pedophiles.
So call for Epstein Files every day, their release won't change any conflict going on right now. Whether it is people being kidnapped in broad daylight because of the color of their skin, or the senseless, western funded slaughtering of civilians in palestine, or the UAE backed bloodshed in sudan.
Trump still has 3 years to destroy what little is left of the U.S. democracy and the western power sphere and it seems he is still very much on time with his plan.
People already call the elites pedos. Even if the Epstein files were released with video evidence it wouldn't be enough for people to get off their asses and change anything. Look at all the redlines Trump has already crossed.
Not sure how much can really still be changed short of starting a full-on rebellion. And even that only has a marginal chance of oing anything and only if a siginficant portion of the military is part of the revolution.
It's literally too late to stop the US from descending into a full-on fascist dictatorship.
The problem is that there is still so many that support it. Even if we're generous its only 60% of the country Thats against it what's happening. Until that switches to 80% nothing will or should happen.
Theres been successful revolutions that only had support from a minority of the population but it requires hard fighting, violence and organisation that I dont think Americans are capable of.
Currently, Trump has full control of the military and afaik there are no majorly critical high-ranking military officials left.
Even if 100% of the civilian population is against Trump, no revolution would have a chance against the US military.
If a civilian revolution were to happen, the military would squash it and the government would instantly shift into an official military dictatorship.