Forum Post: Darkness Grows
Posted 3 weeks ago on Dec. 31, 2025, 11:02 a.m. EST by agkaiser
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from Fredericksburg, TX
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If the successes of Capitalism and failures of Socialism oft repeated in the USA are not simply propaganda inspired delusions, we still must talk about the concentration of wealth and decline of the middle class in the past 50 years. The contented classes of the top 10% got theirs but the rest of US are either treading water or going under. Hedge funds are bidding up home prices and buying up residences at an accelerating pace that is making rents unaffordable for more and more each day. And that's just the most obvious failure of American Capitalism. The FIRE Sector, Medical and Pharmaceutical Corps and the rest of the greed fueled Corporatist [read Fascist] nightmare has darkened the America I grew up in.
Consider "ICE Is a Domestic Terror Threat"!!! by Jordan Liz:
As - "The agents who shot Renee Nicole Good shot her because they knew they could; they shot her because the Trump administration has specifically and purposely empowered law enforcement to act without impunity or care"!
Per the OP & behind what you rightly say, is the fact of USA's MASSIVE military economy, where the real fusion of Corporations & State,ie. Fascism, is manifest, per Mussolini's definition of the 'F' word!!
The US and its citizens, are now at an inflection point but citizens are so dumbed down that it's scary and intentionally so,due to a complicit & wholly corporate owned & Con'troll'ed Main Stream Media!!!
ergo, caveat emptor ...
"Renee Good Died From the Kind of State Violence Our Founders Warned Against"! ... by Thom Hartmann:
"When state authority stops serving the people but instead lords over them, stops being questioned by the media and the people & stops fearing consequences - because it lives behind a shield of immunity, (consider) a police state is inevitable."
ad iudicium?
"ICE’s Murder of Renee Nicole Good was not an aberration; It's The New Normal"!! - Mike Ludwig:
Which ends .. "For years ICE has been accused of violating human rights while avoiding transparency & accountability, including within its notorious jails,where at least 32 people have died while in ICE custody since Trump took office. Trump has now transformed the agency .. into an authoritarian weapon that can be deployed into any community across the United States - and against anyone perceived to oppose his regime." Meanwhile ...
"JD Vance Says Americans .. Should Actually Thank ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good"!!! https://truthout.org/articles/jd-vance-says-americans-should-actually-thank-ice-agent-who-killed-renee-good/ by Sharon Zhang
Further, also try to consider - https://www.commondreams.org/news/renee-good-protest-weekend
Finally NB "From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent playbook"!! https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/from-palestine-to-minneapolis-ice-and-israel-use-the-same-violent-playbook/ by A. Ibsais
"Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her - died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and political structure - exists to ensure those agents never face meaningful consequences for murder."
et caveat!