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Don't be so pessimistic! They might introduce some new characters for season 2. Or should we consider year 2 of this term just part 2/ (?) for season 2 of Trump? Or should we consider the entire Trump presidency as part of the larger Oligarchy in America series? I guess it depends on if you include the entire mythology starting from day 1 of Reagan? Or if you actually acknowledge that's just part of Oligarchy the Next Generation, and you're including it within the larger contexts of the civil war and the declaration of Independence being signed by slave holders? Or this land already being inhabited by natives when Europeans first arrive here?
Idk maybe I'm being greedy, but it would be nice if we could just give real democracy a chance.
At least for shits and giggles, before we tear down all the things that wealthy Oligarchs have been fighting us on since signing their names to a piece of paper claiming they believed in the values of a country built by all the marginalized people they exploited and continue to exploit to maintain their status in the heirarchy they created.
Maybe we could just try actually putting control of those values in the hands of the people, but like for real this time? I know some people think the hypocrisy of the signers of the declaration make extracting democracy from their hypocrisy impossible, but we've never actually tried just putting people in power who are actually willing to call the rigged system out for being rigged. We've never tried it because the people rigging the system in their favor have convinced us that calling it a rigged system would be "unpatriotic."
Maybe they're right and we're actually the ones who need them to control our world for us, because we're the ones incapable of greatness. But if we're never even allowed the freedom to just acknowledge reality, and demand accountability for the people who manipulate and exploit the public for "our own good," and definitely not because they're so fucking terrified of the consequences of a society actually allowing all of it's people equal footing, how can we really know it's the fault of democracy? How do we know it's not just the result of oligarchy masquerading itself as a democracy overly obsessed with nationalism in order to compensate and prove everything it does, including maintaining that heirarchy, is so unselfishly patriotic and for the greater good, that we aren't allowed to even question it without being accused of terrorism?
At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if the next character has horns and wears a cape.
Pretty sure he's been the director and executive producer of every season, but he's probably made a few cameos