7/2/2024 Episode 92 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guests Dust James and Greg Rosen.
The panel discusses the delicate situation engulfing the EU and the United States, where the anti-immigrant issue has gathered considerable momentum, presenting difficult problems (and opportunities) for the reigning oligarchy. It's noteworthy, says Dust James, that in both the US (capital/imperial core) and Europe (the periphery, where a "labor aristocracy" developed) the capitalists are drifting toward fascism. In America, where the economy continues to worsen for the working class, and the immigration issue (exploited mercilessly by Trump), adds fuel to the flames, such situation could easily drive some sort of fascistic movement forward, even if Trump himself may not be fully aware (or concerned) about the chaotic consequences of his careless opportunism. Mass immigration is an issue with no easy answers, notes Billy Bob; socialists could arguably defend or oppose either side of the equation. There is no doubt, however, that lowly paid Americans—including many Latinos—are fiercely hostile to "illegal immigration", since any mass influx of undocumented workers will inexorably depress wages.

Something similar is being seen in Europe, with similar political results—the public is swinging toward the right. In both cases, however, the kindling for the fire was provided by many decades of "liberal interventionist" policies that catered to the military industrial complex while betraying the needs and aspirations of ordinary workers. The tyrannical imperialist/rightist "Woke" regime —essentially centrist-rightist liberals, wrongly identified  by many as "the left"—has only acted as an accelerant to this socially explosive process.