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The other option is that things don't change because there's an invisible set of organizations and agreements that force the status quo to be reproduced.
This set of organizations is what John Miershiemer calls "The Blob". It includes all sorts of thing tanks, the world bank, the council on foreign relations, NATO, this melding of big money corporations and political interests that control enough money and influence over how society is run, that not even Trump will truly be able to change the fundamentals in any substantial or lasting way.
The level of change stops when it risks their money and the stability of The Blob. We do not know what life would be like without The Blob - because we've never had it.
No offense but this reads like an edgy teenager's take on politics, was it the blob who prevented the 10 million people who showed for biden to not show up for Harris? Or was it their selfishness, sexism, racism, misguided idiotic leftism (like you see in lemmy comments about how this is revenge for not taking a stance on gaza)
How come the EU can force change on US companies yet the US fails to do so? Is the blob in the Us, just like alien attacks and pandemics and serial killers in movies?
It was the Democrats' failure to differentiate themselves from the fascists in a way that actually mattered to the working class.