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Good cop bad cop for decades but Americans still eat it up. The reality is, up until the lack of physical safety that the empire has been exporting around the world came back home, and the spikes in material discomfort, Americans didn't care. The blues were happy with yet another Peace Prize recipient, Obama, and if you saw how many people have died by his command you'd quickly understand Kissinger and Goebells getting them too were not rare but the actual reason this prize was invented for: spin and PR. They're superficial and always were, but now they're just shooting white ladies in the face in broad daylight so people are losing their minds because where empathy fails, fear might work.
The times are changing and America is being restructured, and if Trump doesn't finish the job they'll spin it in a way you believe the new Dem head is "taking a stand to the Nazis" and "reviving the spirit of the Constitution" and whatnot but nothing will fundamentally change because America is a nation captured by capital and "democratically elected leaders" are scapegoats first and foremost, dancing to the tune of money (capital controls the country because the amoral ones can be bought and the moral ones either never get a chance at power and get disappeared quickly if they come close), the direction the nation takes is disconnected from their so-called leadership.