The American Political Landscape in 2017
The following are a list of the major political groups in the United States as of 2017. Note that not all group are homogeneous, and there is in many cases significant overlap with other groups. Groups are listed in terms of perceived power and influence. Did I forget anyone? Let me know what you think.
“The Establishment"
Sub-Faction 1: “Neo-Liberals” - Neo-Liberals represent the core of the Democratic party.
Leaders: Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, Etc.
Supporters: Legacy Media, Multinational Corporations, Multinational Organizations (EU, IMF, World Bank, UN, Etc.), Entrenched Bureaucrats,Wall Street, Federal Reserve, Drug Cartels, Pedophile Rings, Technocratic / Bureaucratic Upper Class Whites, Intelligence Agencies, Minorities, Welfare Recipients, Poor Immigrants, Large Social Media Corporations, Academia.
Goals: Expand central government power, Centralization and personal control, Ensuring continuous control of the government, Political Correctness.
Methods: Buy lower class votes with benefits payed for through debt spending and money printing. Further entrench elite in through influencing law and media control. Use of Global Warming as excuse for expanded government control.
Challenges: Corruption and Economic dysfunction leading to unsustainable entitlements to their voter base. Perception of support for Neo-Conservative military interventions. Snobby Candidates.
Overlaps: Burnie Bros, SJWs, Greens, Neo-Conservaties.
Sub-Faction 2: “Neo-Conservatives” - Neo-Conservatives represent the core of the Republican party.
Leaders: Bush Family, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Etc.
Supporters: Multinational Corporations, Defense Contractors, Wall Street, Federal Reserve, Fox News, Drug Cartels, AM Talk Radio, Intelligence Agencies, Pedophile Rings, Big Business Owners, Evangelicals, The Elderly, Rich White People, Insurance Agencies, Big Pharma.
Goals: Maintain and expand US imperial hegemony, maintain use of US dollar for international trade through threats of and actual military interventions ala Iraq, Libya, Syria. Weakening of foreign governments.
Methods: Military invasions, wasteful military contracts to supporters, debt spending and money printing to fund military and interventions. Credit expansion and misrepresentation of economic data to project falsely improving economy. Use of Terrorism, and False Flag attacks as excuse for expanded government control.
Challenges: Discredited after years of fruitless foreign wars and interventions in the eyes of the public. Boring Candidates. Increases debt loads.
Overlaps: Neo-Liberals, Tea Partiers, Trump Populists, Libertarians
“Trump Populists”
Leaders: Donald Trump
Supporters: Tea Partiers, Disenfranchised Republicans, Rust Belt / Manfacturing Workers, Libertarians, Small Business Owners, Military Veterans, “Woke” People, Alt-Right, Preppers.
Goals: “Make America Great Again.”
Methods: Discredit failed legacy governmental, international, and media organizations. Use of small scale social and alternative media methods to directly reach voters. Self funded campaigns, rather than reliance on entrenched interests.
Challenges: Substantial debts, money printing, creates economic situation that is not likely solvable with conventional methods like tax or budget cuts. Infiltration and sabotage of administration by establishment agents. Goals are largely unrealistic, or require more short term pain before long term gain is possible via economic/currency reset. Character assassination and false allegations (ie Russia, Comey) from legacy media, establishment.
Overlaps: Neo-Conservatives, Libertarians, Classical Liberals, Tea Partiers, Evangelicals, Burnie Bros.
“Burnie Bros”
Leaders: Burnie Sanders
Supporters: College Students, Millennials, SJWs, College Debtors, Academia, Socialists, Communists.
Goals: Establish Scandinavia-like socialism in the United States, Universal Healthcare, Expanded Welfare/UBC, Free College, Political Correctness, Race Gender LGBT Concerns.
Methods: Social media campaigns, college rallies.
Challenges: Lack of money/influence among likely voters. Proposals unsustainable due to economic situation and expanding debt, willful ignorance of historical outcomes of socialism and narrow focus on small, heterogeneous tribal Scandinavia examples. No realistic foreign policy or military strategy. Attacks and sabotage from Neo-liberal establishment.
“Libertarians”
Leaders: Ron and Rand Paul, Gary Johnson
Supporters: Single Men, Small Business Owners, Isolationists, Tea Partiers, Disenfranchised Republicans, Fiscal Conservatives, Young People, Hard Money Advocates, Preppers.
Goals: Limited Government, Reduced Taxation, Deregulation, Free Market Choice, Sound Money, Individual Freedom, Property Rights, Decentralization, Freedom of Speech,
Methods: Social media campaigns, some college efforts, libertarian party, running as republicans.
Challenges: Half measures with republican party/neo-cons, highly fragmented into various sub- groups. Lack of structural influence. Harder to sell personal responsibility than free stuff at the expense of others. Long warned of economic collapse or tyrannical oversteps which has long been put off or ignored through corrupt financial practices so the message seems hyperbolic or chicken little-like.
Overlaps: Tea Partiers, Trump Populists.
“SJWs”
Supporters: 3rd Wave Feminists, Academia, Radicalized Minorities, Legacy Media, Large Social Media Companies, College Students, Celebrities, Socialists, Communists.
Goals: Authoritarian control of human behavior through control of media, education, limitations on free speech, racial/gender/sex issues.
Methods: Violent and Obstructionist Protests, Social media campaigns, Assault, Vandalism, Arson, False flag attacks, Indoctrination through education system, Legacy media hit pieces, Internet trolling.
Challenges: Frequent pattern of courting/disowning from neo-liberals as they shift between a desire to use SJWs as a weapon, and fear of SJWs tendency to turn on their own and go too far shaming themselves, Attacks on free speech and art have caused a cultural backlash even within the left itself, Victim mentality leads to much complaining and attacking but little building their own efforts.
Overlaps: Burnie Bros, Neo-Liberals, Greens
“Greens”
Supporters: Multinational Organizations, Academia, Multinational Corporations, Large Social Media Companies.
Goals: International control of trade, business, property, production, populations, etc, through environmental mandate.
Methods: Indoctrination through education system, Government sponsored research grants, Social media campaigns, Legacy media propaganda.
Challenges: Little to no warming in climate for 20 years, Global Warming efforts taken away steam from conventional environmentalism and pollution issues. Largely weaponized by neo-liberals ending up lacking in any individual identity. Environmental policies if realized offer massive cuts in living standards to even the poor in the developed world.
Overlaps: Neo-liberals, SJWs, Burnie Bros.
“Alt-Right”
Supporters: Internet Trolls, Pepe the Frog
Goals: Reactionary effort similar to SJWs for the far-right. Establishes white or euro-centric identity politics to counter failures of multi-culturalism, globalism, etc.
Methods: Internet trolling, Memes, social media campaigns, some college operations.
Challenges: By fighting SJW fire with fire, both radical sides see the others efforts as justification for escalation, Actual white-supremacists.
Overlaps: Trump Populists
“Classical Liberals”
Supporters: Popular Youtubers, Gamergaters.
Goals: Reestablishment of realistic center-left positions, Defend freedom of speech, modest regulation of free market, Some social programs within economic limitations.
Methods: Almost exclusively social media, YouTube, Some petititons.
Challenges: Difficult to establish identity on the left with prominence of neo-liberals and SJWs, middle of the road and realistic limited policies that don't really satisfy anyone.
Overlaps: Libertarians