Hello everybody welcome back to Rev Left. All right so today is the last day of

2023 and what a what a year it has been. On our on Grilla History we released an episode just a day or two ago

of 2023 in review in which we sort of reflected on the year 2023 the big political events that happen sort of looking forward

what's likely to happen in 2024 and I think the consensus was that things are

going to get worse before they get better.

I think we're going to see in 2024 an expansion of conflict and expansion of these wars,

whether the Ukraine, Russia, or the Israel, Palestine Wars continue to expand or a new war pops off.

I think we're living through, as I said in that episode, the end of the post World War II

sort of global order, the Bretton Woods system.

I think we're leaving the age of American unipolar and I think we're leaving the age of globalized neoliberalism.

All of these things are sort of coming to an end at the same time that here in the United States

we're entering one of these periods of realignment, of crisis, of delegitimization, of public

institutions.

And so a lot of trends are sort of coming together at the same time and what that's of is it's going to get uglier before it gets better. We're going to continue to see

Chaos at home. We're going to continue to see the abject

venal, cruel, incompetent, and impotent nature of our political system struggle to get

anything done. Of course unless that thing getting done is helping other people

fight wars because that America will always make sure

that people are dying somewhere around the world that American tax

dollars are going to create weapons that blow people's bodies apart that kill children that traumatized

families America will always make sure that somewhere around the world the

bombs are still dropping human beings are still suffering, the blood is

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