The right has been incorporated into the machine for a while, now we see the left has finally been incorporated into it too. The left took longer since it used to be authentically anti-system / anti-establishment and genuinely on the side of poverty (as in, not anti-money but a-money, disinterested in material gain).
Now that both sides are fully integrated into the machine (the machine being what we might call the military industrial / big pharma / big tech / big media global corporatist plutocratic uniparty) what comes next? We see the political sham occurring in front of our eyes right now as both the political left and right are fully integrated into the system; these theatrics false dialectics only fool the small-minded and those not paying attention. The rest of us can see the Uniparty as clear as day.
Since the results of the upcoming (s)election don’t matter, and all that matters from the perspective of the uniparty is 1) create enough emotional and social chaos which is useful for them in many other ways, 2) secure big data and AI algorithmic capture of the populace, 3) keep countless millions of people invested in going to vote so the overall system can maintain its appearance of legitimacy… what is the broader picture here? Where are both “parties” leading us?
Is the uniparty going to initiate world war? Or economic reset? I’m not so sure, maybe in localized areas but the system is too dependent upon these large-scale processes and infrastructures. World war that would turn nuclear would be highly destructive and could undermine their tech- and transhumanist-related plans. Economic reset is viable for them if it leads to CBDCs being adopted and a resetting of much of the leverage (debt) already in the system.
No doubt they are in a position to collapse the US and turn the global reserve status over to BRICS if that is what they want to do. I’m not convinced they want to do that. It would be far easier for them to control western governments via their puppet politicians and corporate-social engineering games, why risk handing things over to the Chinese and Russians when those authoritarian systems contain far more interiority and self-cohesion as historicity and substance compared to in the west? Even Europe is far younger than China. Let alone America which is basically in historical terms still a baby. Or maybe an angsty pre-teen. Sure European historical ethos is there embedded as culture, but that culture is rotting under crass commercialism and mass immigration from non-western societies. In 50 years many European nations (looking at you Germany) will be majority Islamic anyway and the ‘democracy’ game (let alone in terms of culture and historical substance) at that point is already over.
Can asians and muslims be made to align within the neoliberal hypercapitalist biosecurity state mass-consumerist monoculture? Asians seem to gravitate nicely into that, not sure about muslims though. They might take more convincing. Hence perhaps the role of Isreal in all this and maybe a regional ‘world war’ that is contained to middle eastern proxies.
What we can know for sure: the political left and right in the west are dead, both having become fully incorporated into ‘neoliberal global capitalism’ to use the simplest possible term for it. This alignment forces the most extreme and crude tactics of division and image- and meme-based dichotomies in order to sell itself as anything other than what it really is. Some might say politics has decayed into pure economics, but that would be too simplistic. The forces of alignment today have far more in mind than simply getting more and more wealthy.
The next step in this analysis is to move into the tech-transhumanist direction and see the developing worldwide grid of absolute panopticon surveillance and control via things like internet of everything, pervasive nanotech and nanosensing, biosecurity authentication and digital ID, CBDC cryptoblockchain integrations into our biological and psychological lives under the guise of economic necessities and incentives, and at the far end of the spectrum we see the human-AI merger meant to usher in not only the technofuturist singularity but the birth of the post-human, which birth is the ultimate goal of many of the usual suspects. There must be some profound wars going on under the scenes between the old guard tyrants who want to maintain something like human-level control at least at the top of the hierarchy and those on the pure transhumanist side who want to efface humanity entirely from the equations of power… e/acc vs. e/a as a loose approximation.
What forms that is going to take specifically in any given region, is something we can only find out by waiting to see. All the political games and economic turbulence going on are largely irrelevant distractions and theater to mask what kind of future is really being built right now under existing systems.