Excellent breakdown of the Dems' blind spot on tech regulation. The parallel between Epstein impunity and tech executive accountability is sharper than most political commentary will touch. Families are genuinely drowning in the daily battle over screens and algorithms, but consultants are still debating whether to poll on under-13 restrictions which already exist federally. The Australia comparison is crucial b/c it shows goverments can act decisively when they're not captured, but here both parties get too much cash from Silicon Valley to move past performative hearing apologies.
This needs to be a Top Priority issue in 2026. The reason that it’s not is because these tech oligarchs fund political campaigns and, like Newsom, no one in the political establishment will bite the hand that feeds them.
My view on the United States of America in the 2020s is its conditions strongly resemble the USSR in the 1980s, just with communism and capitalism swapped. You have a failing economic system, propped up not necessarily by its support but by fear of the alternative (as all the fearmongering about "fascism" and "Marxism" from the establishment shows). You have a gerontocracy dominating Congress and blocking real change like Brezhnev's elders dominated the USSR elites. Much like how the Soviet-Afghan War hastened the decline of the USSR through debt and conflict, so did the US War on Terror and now the support for Ukraine and Israel, largely driven on ideological grounds. You have a young generation that is seeing the alternative in a fascist/socialist success story in China, increasingly consuming Chinese cultural products from Douyin to Genshin Impact, and thinking whether the grass is greener on the other side, like how the Soviet youth in the 1980s thought about the capitalist West. You have an older generation increasingly reactive against technologies like social media and AI, pushing for more and more restrictions like the Soviet elites cracked down on Western media and TV because they are tools that help the youth under 25 see the cracks of the establishment order.
I predict that given the age of the median US politician today, this system will rapidly unravel, almost definitely by 2028 when Donald Trump's second term ends and many of the aging establishment are voted out of power. A Gorbechev-like figure might emerge to attempt to "reform" American capitalism into something less oligarchic, and it might just be the straw to break the camel's back and collapse the US government and economic system altogether, ushering in an age where a new generation of US elites attempt to implement full socialism, but according to America's stereotype of socialism as a totalitarian state allowing mass famine, much like how Russia's implementation of capitalism in the 1990s was essentially based on their propaganda of capitalism as robber barons.
Excellent breakdown of the Dems' blind spot on tech regulation. The parallel between Epstein impunity and tech executive accountability is sharper than most political commentary will touch. Families are genuinely drowning in the daily battle over screens and algorithms, but consultants are still debating whether to poll on under-13 restrictions which already exist federally. The Australia comparison is crucial b/c it shows goverments can act decisively when they're not captured, but here both parties get too much cash from Silicon Valley to move past performative hearing apologies.
This needs to be a Top Priority issue in 2026. The reason that it’s not is because these tech oligarchs fund political campaigns and, like Newsom, no one in the political establishment will bite the hand that feeds them.
My view on the United States of America in the 2020s is its conditions strongly resemble the USSR in the 1980s, just with communism and capitalism swapped. You have a failing economic system, propped up not necessarily by its support but by fear of the alternative (as all the fearmongering about "fascism" and "Marxism" from the establishment shows). You have a gerontocracy dominating Congress and blocking real change like Brezhnev's elders dominated the USSR elites. Much like how the Soviet-Afghan War hastened the decline of the USSR through debt and conflict, so did the US War on Terror and now the support for Ukraine and Israel, largely driven on ideological grounds. You have a young generation that is seeing the alternative in a fascist/socialist success story in China, increasingly consuming Chinese cultural products from Douyin to Genshin Impact, and thinking whether the grass is greener on the other side, like how the Soviet youth in the 1980s thought about the capitalist West. You have an older generation increasingly reactive against technologies like social media and AI, pushing for more and more restrictions like the Soviet elites cracked down on Western media and TV because they are tools that help the youth under 25 see the cracks of the establishment order.
I predict that given the age of the median US politician today, this system will rapidly unravel, almost definitely by 2028 when Donald Trump's second term ends and many of the aging establishment are voted out of power. A Gorbechev-like figure might emerge to attempt to "reform" American capitalism into something less oligarchic, and it might just be the straw to break the camel's back and collapse the US government and economic system altogether, ushering in an age where a new generation of US elites attempt to implement full socialism, but according to America's stereotype of socialism as a totalitarian state allowing mass famine, much like how Russia's implementation of capitalism in the 1990s was essentially based on their propaganda of capitalism as robber barons.