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My prediction for tonight’s inauguration —

The Bannon-Musk battle is likely to be electric, unless Trump derails their throw-down via clever scheduling!  I hope TEAM RED are prepared to witness MAGA get plowed under by BigMoney tonight, and over the next few years.  History repeats.  

Maybe MAGA voters noticed (doubtful) what happened leading up to the Russian revolution:  the revolutionary workers opposed to the Tsarist “deep state” back then were the losers.  Those workers were essential to get the revolution rolling; but Lenin soon hired “professional” revolutionaries and had them rob banks to make their payroll, and foment his/their turn against the workers. Those “hires” were the guys who became the Bolsheviks — which then formed the Communist Party.  Hitler made a similar move, replacing his thuggish brown-shirted Hitler Youth “boy-scout” security apparatus with elite SS troops.  

Workers often tend to lose in a contest of muscle versus money.  MAGA can expect to see it happen again.  Musk and the billionaires will likely defeat Bannon / MAGA .  Enjoy the show, if you can stand it. (It’s a rerun which will end the same.)  Sadly, the middle-class taxpayers will be the big initial losers.  Trump will extend his tax cuts to his rich buddies in BigCapital, and the real workers (those who still have adequate jobs with a living wage) will foot the bill. But then society as a whole will eventually choke.  Institutions are the skeleton of our society. A starvation diet will digest that support system, sapping its strength, leaching value from the whole, into gated communities. Ronnie Raygun told a cruel joke: “I’m from the gov’t and I’m here to help.”  We need government more than we need billionaires! Civilization withers when citizens stop communicating and cooperating.  We are a social species, by nature!  (Curtis Yarvin and Bronze Age Pervert not-withstanding.)