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Jared Yates Sexton

@jysexton.bsky.social

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Hoosier, Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Political Adviser: The Change Campaign

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Dec 17

The wealthy have intentionally destroyed class consciousness so that they can exploit the vast majority of people.

If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.

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A Thoroughly Confused Country: An Introduction to Class Politics and a Way Forward

Americans suffer from a lack of class consciousness, which makes them easy prey for manipulation

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 17h

*Takes a look at 1929 through 1945, then another look at a series of booms and busts and past authoritarian movements. Takes a sip. Moves on*

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

It was like watching the Harlem Globetrotters pull off stunt after stunt while the defense just stood there.

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really something, the history of politicians who hurt the country by staying too long out of hubris. Brutal, brutal shit. History will not be kind to Schumer and every day that he holds on it will only get worse.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

For the love of all that is holy, Chuck Schumer, retire.

Go spend time with your family. Let people who understand what’s going on, who have even a modicum of fight in them, do what needs to be done.

Every time you speak you make it clearer that you cannot do this.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schumer: I want to say to Donald Trump, to Johnson, and to Thune: come to the Capitol, sit down in public, and debate us on the health care crisis that’s afflicting Americans.

The public needs to see this.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Exactly.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

Fascism in America will not stop unless we stop it and that means coming together in collective action to shift the paradigm and begin answering the material conditions that created this crisis.

Seeing how this system works make it obvious. It will continue until we stop it.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

Again, Trump is a symptom of a larger disease.

Whether it's him or someone else, conditions right now necessitate the wealth class embracing a fascist project. You have to look beyond him and see it's not an aberration but an evolution that we must stop.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, some of the media conglomerations are capitulating, but what is being revealed, day by day, is that the wealth class isn't just afraid of Trump, they're on board with the ongoing fascist escalation that we've been watching for decades. It helps to see this clearly and not living in denial.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

Weiss's ascendance represents the need for the wealth class to continue moving rightward as capitalism requires fascism. Individuals like Klein are there to help moderate white liberals begin to accept that "necessity." That's how this whole thing works and has always worked.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that authoritarians use the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy against itself, including concepts of "free speech" and the "healthy exchange of ideas."

They do not value these things. They are not sincerely held principles. They're cudgels and they will erase them once in power.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

All of this could be over if we got past our own shit, joined together, and presented a brave collective front.

We could have a new day. We could have a better world. It's that simple.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re running for office and you cannot say that these criminals should be held responsible for their crimes and abuses then you are not worthy of being trusted with power.

Period. End of story. This is the absolute baseline for everyone who wants to be a leader right now.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

To not see what’s happening and that white moderates and corporate media are mainstreaming and enabling fascism is a choice at this point.

Denial is one of the main components of fascism succeeding. It’s all rather obvious and choosing to not see it is choosing to help the fascists.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

With things worsening, we can’t afford to keep living in denial of what’s happening. You’ve got enough information. They’re not even really trying to hide it anymore.

There’s the fascists and their wealth class enablers and then there’s the rest of us. From there, you can change things.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

It’s become clear to many what’s going on, but for those who are still asking Democrats why they’re not doing more or wondering why corporate media keeps normalizing Trump and demonizing vulnerable people, it’s time to see what’s happening.

They’re not on your side.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll say it as clearly as possible: when capitalism requires fascism, moderates and wealth class adjacent figures and groups and media side with the fascists over leftists calling for reform.

That’s where we are and as leftist sentiments grow the violence and collaboration will grow in response.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

This is, and has always been, a class war. There’s a veneer over top of it that presents parties and leaders and media as faux representative, but when the rubber meets the road and capitalism requires fascism, they turn to capitulation and collaboration.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been repulsive how The NY Times has been fearmongering around Mamdani, but to then take the extra step to smear Portland as a means of doing it while that city is facing a fascist invasion is another thing entirely.

I hope people are starting to see it’s the capitalists versus the rest of us.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

The internet is designed to addict users by enabling them and creating narcissistic realities.

MAGA supporters didn’t vote for Trump. They voted for authoritarianism that would twist the real world into their hateful, self-serving online fantasies.

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A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: Our Identities Have No Bodies

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part III: You cannot understand what is happening in our present crisis without wrestling with the effects of the corporate Internet

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Most American shit imaginable.

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

What we are dealing with is a collective breakdown. The psychological and emotional components have been completely under discussed, but what we’re seeing with the fascists is a group of addicted, miserable people who are now making their addiction and misery all of our problems.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

In this and in the article I am discussing Right Wing fascism.

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump is not a real president and his administration is not a real administration

They’re a representation of the rot and radicalization a digital realm designed to addict and enable creates. And what they promise is to use the authority and violence of the state to make those fantasies real

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Despite its veneer, the modern internet as a product is a mirror that allows sad, lonely fascists to live in denial and feel empowered. And the different levels of capitalization have created a fascist government populated with online trolls and personalities.

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