Dr John Izzo

Obviously never did.

Right.

Okay.

Let's go down that road.

So we have some basic axioms in this podcast.

And one is, there's a very lovely definition of fascism.

It was a trumpet player in the US and I can't remember his name and I'm really sorry.

And he said the definition of fascism is there's an in-group that is defended but not constrained and an out-group that is constrained but not protected.

And everybody who votes for it thinks they're in the in-group until they discover that the in-group is shrinking and they're actually in the out-group.

And we're watching that happen in real time.

The Latinos for Trump are suddenly realising that they're being arrested in broad daylight.

But I voted for you.

It does not count as a reason not to happen.

So that's one thing.

Second is, I don't see how we get through the biophysical collapse that's coming, never mind all the rest, absent total systemic change.

This is a manifestly post-capitalist podcast.

And...

To get to post-capitalism, we need a very dramatic shift in our governance and politics because the political system is not broken, as far as I can see.

It's doing exactly what it was designed to do, which is to shovel value from the bottom to the top while spreading fairy dust over the people who continue to vote while voting is a thing.

And per Project 2025, if they follow the Curtis Yarvin playbook,