💲 Beyond the Big Lie: The Return of America’s Class Struggle
America’s 2024 election reveals a brutal truth: behind the masks of progressivism and populism, the battle is still about class—and the stakes have never been higher.
"It is better to be less understandable, less pleasing, less moving, than to speak what is not true and not just." — St. Augustine
The ancient Persian religion Zoroastrianism was founded on rejecting "The Lie"—not merely because lying is wrong but because it violates humanity and is a crime against the cosmos. Truth was seen as holy, while lying was a path to ruin.
The truth is that America, like Britain, is now run by the rich, for the rich. To say otherwise is a lie. And for the wealthy to rob the poor is unjust. It always was and always will be. This is a fundamental principle. To steal from the poor is one thing, a material wrong. But to do so while pretending otherwise is something else entirely. That act doesn’t just rob the body but corrupts the soul — a far greater crime.
This is the crime of the Democratic Party. For decades, it has talked the talk while betraying America’s working class. Claiming the "progressive" mantle, it has actively transferred wealth from the poor to the rich, destroying communities in favour of quarterly returns. We all know this. When you lie cynically, you corrupt not only yourself but your audience as well. If you make people gaze into the abyss long enough, that abyss will gaze back at them. From that abyss comes fascism. When elites — those we’re told to respect — speak nonsense, people will take that as permission to do the same, believing that a billionaire can deliver justice. Voting for Trump is a people’s defiant response to those who have insulted their souls with a ‘Big Lie’ year after year after year. Being subjected to such deceit inevitably breeds a desire for self-destruction.
Power, especially the power of Capital, has one playbook: divide and rule. For decades, its "progressive" representatives have told us it’s about race, gender, and ethnicity. That’s a lie. At its core, it’s about class. Yes, the liberation of specific oppressed groups is essential, but only within the context of the larger story: the oppression of all groups by the rich. Progressivism in America has become rich people telling the poor who’s more oppressed than whom. It’s vile nonsense; it’s a Big Lie.
The results of the 2024 election demonstrate that the game is up. People have stopped thinking of themselves solely by identity labels like "women," "Black," or "Hispanic." Instead, they see themselves as "the people" — people who can’t afford basic groceries. And with no candidate truly standing up for their class interests, they’ve turned to the next best option: someone who claims he will. Because, yes, he’s a fascist, but he’s not part of the managerial elite — that administrative class of university-educated people who talk the talk but in reality, micro-manage the working class in service to a state that serves Capital. Who would vote for that?
In the past four years, the Democrats have overseen record-high oil and gas production, and Trump will continue this suicidal course. Soon, the elites will have made Florida uninhabitable, forced evacuations of the American Southwest, and caused millions of refugees to flood across borders. To claim otherwise is the greatest Big Lie of all. People will then face a fundamental choice: to embrace a fascism that sacrifices the vulnerable, an anti-Christian civilisation, or to choose a socialism that extends charity to the vulnerable, a Christian civilisation.
So what’s the plan? The plan is to stop lying. America needs a political party of the people, by the people, for the people. That will never be the Democrats. Their lies have burnt their bridges. The answer lies in a genuine democratic socialist force, but one that moves beyond stale language. People don’t just want "equality" — they want family, community, and nation, all of which are being destroyed by capitalism. They want freedom, dignity, and the chance to create and flourish, which requires ending the neoliberal stranglehold. They don’t want to be ruled; they want to govern themselves, as the American experiment was supposed to promise. Not another oligarchy in new clothes, but a movement that uses the people’s conservative values to stop the rich from robbing them. To speak the truth, even if it’s less understandable, less pleasing, or less moving — because it’s the truth.
If a real choice is available, a political force for the latter must start now. To make America truly great, not by superficial strength, but by being true and just — and meaning it.
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