politics

It's almost like the political system incentivizes and relies on its presidents committing mass atrocities in order to exist!

This is why the Democrats will never save us. The Democrats need these wars, and war crimes, and corruption, and over policing, and the most authoritarian criminal justice system on the planet, and the military spying on citizens, and international drug running, and black market arms selling, and genocide, and millions of deaths by depravation. They need just as much as the Republicans need them.

And that's because the US government, like all liberal governments (which is most of the world's governments), are actually systems for managing the interests and conflicts of the powerful. The masses are powerful, the billionaires/merchants are powerful, the military is powerful. There are factions within all of these power centers and the government's function is to prevent civil war at any scale to prevent the destruction of capital assets and to create the conditions for the success of these factions.

The masses aren't in power. So the government's function relative to the masses is to prevent them from revolting and keep them laboring for profit and filling the ranks of the military

The military's primary function after ensuring no domestic revolt is to destroy the capital of competitors in other countries and to prevent coalition building against the enemies of the American billionaires and, because kf historical relationships, the Western European billionaires.

The billionaires are the ones that fight amongst themselves the most. The tech faction, the industrial faction, the finance faction - these faction has different theories about how to remain in power and wealth. And the problem is that the entire world system that made them powerful and rich is waning. The ecosystem is under immense pressure. Many nations have established effective resistance against both US military power and US financial power, and more are developing them and forming coalitions. The Chinese outmaneuvered the American billionaires and created a situation where destroying Chinese capital results in the destruction of America and European wealth and the ability of the government to keep the masses docile with cheap commodities.

The whole American system, and by historical process, the whole European system, is facing down a fundamental shift in global economics that threatens to completely undo their entire power structure. They don't give a flying fuck about abortions or trans people or voting rights or whatever wedge issue they pick next. They are doing that to manage the masses, keep them scared, keep them fighting amongst themselves, and keep them collaborating with the "good cop" faction (the Democrats). They have never cared to hold their leaders accountable for crimes because they all fundamentally agree with the motivation and outcomes of those crimes. They are scrambling to figure out how to keep their gravy train running and they do not have an answer. They need to take drastic actions and they don't know if they'll work, so they need lightning rod presidents to absorb all the negativity and so they can perform "resistance" to maintain the allegiance of those they oppress.

The Rs are the bad cop and the Ds are the good cop. You do not work with the good cop just because they perform higher moral positioning or because they soothe your anxieties about or claim to be protecting you from the bad cop. They are collaborators. They are working for the same department, they have the same goals, they just need you to participate.