Now World Order

This is the Now-Normal everyone talked about. It's not normal. But it is Now. And it won't ever go back to the before times. Post-Trump begins in 1363 days.

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Somewhere between filing a government form and ordering a DoorDash burger, the gap revealed itself.

One system requires faxes. The other can find you a cheeseburger, a driver, and a side of fries in under fifteen minutes.

That gap isn't shrinking. It's growing. And it's changing everything.

There's a myth — stubborn, recycled, strangely persistent — that government "fails" because it's run by buffoons. It’s not true.

RUSH is known as the thinking man’s rock band, and their song “New World Man” is apropos for this post. Click here for the lyrics, but a few lines go like this. Looking through a political lens prescribed in the middle of the last century makes one more Mr. Magoo than Neo. It’s past time for a new prescription.

Learning to match the beat of the old-world man
Learning to catch the heat of the third-world man

He's got to make his own mistakes
And learn to mend the mess he makes
He's old enough to know what's right
And young enough not to choose it
He's noble enough to win the world
But weak enough to lose it

He's a new-world man

Government isn't a failure. It's a lagging system, run by dutiful workers, trapped in an infrastructure that got outpaced by technology decades ago.

Even the good ones — the lifers who punch in, do their job, chase their pension — are trapped in a design that cannot move fast enough to match reality. When innovation does spark up, it’s quickly buried under corruption, greed, and the timeless craving for political power.

Efficiency isn't profitable in politics. Process is. Obstruction is.

Meanwhile, out here, entrepreneurs figured it out: move at the speed of now — or die.

In the gig economy, you can book a ride, a meal, a freelance job in real time. An order pops up. A driver accepts. A gig starts and ends before a government agency even finishes logging the complaint.

The whole model shifted: adapt or be replaced.

Even the big voices — Fox, CNN, WaPo, NYT — still cling to the old way. They obsess over process. They report how something is happening instead of what is happening. They analyze procedure while reality skips a step and hits publish.

And Trump, for all his chaos, blew a hole through that conventional wisdom so wide that no one’s patching it.

The office of the presidency will never go back. Social media, new media, the fragmentation of party loyalty — they all smashed the porcelain plate where the presidency once sat, gleaming and sacred.

What comes next? Nobody really knows.

But the rumblings are getting louder.

Gen Z, raised on fractured attention spans and filtered outrage, isn't buying the old narratives the way their teachers, politicians, and even their parents hoped they would. They see institutions failing in real time. They see $2,000 rent for 400 square feet. They see degrees that cost six figures and pay thirty grand a year. They know the system isn't "failing." It's rigged — and rigged slowly, in plain sight.

And it's not just generational.

The Hispanic, Black, and Asian vote — long treated as guaranteed by the left — is shifting, especially among men. Not necessarily toward the right, but away from the machine. Away from the promises. Away from being told they owe their loyalty forever.

And now, even lifelong Black female voters in deep-blue cities — Philly, Chicago, Detroit — are breaking ranks. Quietly at first. Then a little louder. Because loyalty that only gets rewarded with empty storefronts, broken schools, and politicians that only show up when they need a headline? It dies. Slowly, then all at once.

The gig economy didn’t evolve to improve traditional business. It evolved because traditional business couldn't move fast enough.

Uber wasn’t built to make taxis better. It was built because taxis sucked. Airbnb wasn’t built to improve hotels. It was built because hotels priced people out. Bitcoin wasn't created to improve banks. It was created because banks lied and failed. Substack wasn’t found under a rock. It was born because the gatekeepers stopped telling the truth, and writers got tired of begging for permission to speak.

The same thing is happening in politics now. People aren't trying to fix Washington. They're trying to outgrow it.

Every Uber ride, every DoorDash delivery, every Venmo transfer, every decentralized hustle is a vote of no-confidence in the old system. Not because it's evil. Because it's slow.

And slow, in a world moving at real-time speed, is a kind of death.

This isn't just "disruption" in the buzzword sense. This is survival.

A Generation Built on Broken Promises

The anti-authoritarian thread runs deep now, weaving through Gen X’s core and threading itself into Gen Z’s worldview. The Obama-to-Trump voter isn’t an anomaly. It’s a signal. A generation that once bought into hope and change realized — hard — that "change" often just meant "better branding."

And when that realization hit, they didn't just switch parties. They switched expectations.

The old loyalty — the one that could be bought with slogans and party lines — crumbled. Now, voters chase results. Or they abandon the chase altogether.

The cracks in traditional coalitions are widening because the foundations weren't solid — they were stitched together by fear, guilt, and empty promises. You can’t keep telling people to "wait" while their communities decay. You can’t keep telling people "next time" while inflation eats their paycheck alive.

At some point, "next time" starts to sound a lot like "never."

Speed Is the New Power

In this world, speed beats structure. Reality beats process. Truth beats narrative.

You can’t gaslight a generation that grew up Googling everything. You can’t shame a voter who's been shamed for years and just stopped caring. You can’t herd people into neat political boxes when they’ve already climbed out of them and set the boxes on fire.

The old models — the think tanks, the talking heads, the legacy media spin cycles — they're still running simulations based on voters who no longer exist.

Meanwhile, the real action is happening on encrypted group chats, underground podcasts, meme wars, direct-to-voter livestreams. The information flow is too fast, too chaotic, too personal to be managed.

The system tries to catch up. But it can't. Because it was never designed to.

Government is not built for speed. It’s built for control. And control loses to motion, every time.

And maybe — just maybe — a conspiracy theorist would tell you that's not by accident.

After all, government employees live two lives: one where they use modern technology to order Amazon packages, bank online, and video chat family — and another, at work, where they shuffle paper forms and wrestle with computer systems that barely survived Y2K.

Seriously, this has to be the poster child of the US Government. Paper retirement forms restrict the number of retiring federal employees per month to 10,000. Can you imagine interviewing for a new position and you see this on job-shadow day. What century is the United States Government living in? And why?

Maybe those systems aren't outdated by accident. Maybe they're failure-prone by design — unable to track waste, fraud, and abuse because being unable is the whole point.

Maybe the million-dollar patches, the endless "modernization" contracts, the new-but-already-broken portals aren't glitches. Maybe they're the plan.

Because broken systems are easy to loot. And nobody notices when the whole thing moves slow enough for theft to look like process.

And now? Trump — whatever you think of him — is exposing it. Pulling back the curtain. Showing that the Matrix doesn't want to be unplugged. It wants to double down. It wants to fight.

The global elites once imagined a "New World Order" where they ruled from above, pulling strings, crafting narratives, managing outcomes.

But this "Now World Order" isn't the one they imagined.

It's a populist wave crashing against their castle walls. It's decentralized rebellion, freelance loyalty, individual speed over institutional weight. It's the people, swerving out of reach.

I asked The Robot this question so we can baseline the historical aspect of what we are currently living through. When haters and critics compare Trump to Hitler, they neglect many other movements and leaders throughout human history. This is nothing new. For humans, this is normal. And for us, it is Now.

what are the most consequential populist movements in history 

ChatGPT said:
Good question — and a juicy one.

In short: Populist movements happen when regular people feel screwed over by the elites (political, financial, cultural) and band together to change the system. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it ends in disaster. Either way, the consequences are huge.

Here are some of the most consequential populist movements in history:

1. The Gracchi Brothers (Rome, 2nd Century BCE)

What: Two brothers (Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus) tried to redistribute land from the rich to the poor Roman citizens.

Result: Both were murdered by the elites. Their deaths kicked off a century of civil wars that eventually collapsed the Roman Republic and gave birth to the Roman Empire.

2. The Protestant Reformation (1517)

What: Martin Luther challenged the Catholic Church’s corruption (especially selling indulgences), sparking a religious populist revolt.

Result: Europe shattered into Protestant and Catholic camps, causing wars, migrations, political revolutions, and the birth of modern nation-states.

3. The American Revolution (1770s)

What: Regular colonists, tired of British taxes and being treated like second-class citizens, fought for independence.

Result: The first modern democratic republic was born — inspiring future revolutions around the world.

4. The French Revolution (1789)

What: The starving French masses rose up against the monarchy and aristocrats. "Bread! Freedom! Equality!"

Result: The king lost his head. The chaos led to Napoleon’s rise, endless European wars, and the spread of democratic and nationalist ideas across Europe.

5. The Russian Revolution (1917)

What: Peasants, workers, and soldiers revolted against the czar’s oppressive rule.

Result: Communism took hold. The Soviet Union was born. Massive impact on the 20th century: Cold War, proxy wars, nuclear arms race.

6. American Populist Movement (late 1800s)

What: Farmers and workers, crushed by debt and banks, created the People's Party ("Populists") to demand things like silver currency, railroad regulation, and labor rights.

Result: The party itself faded, but many of its ideas (like progressive income tax, direct election of senators) became law later through the Progressive Era.

7. Nazi Rise in Germany (1930s)

What: Hitler exploited populist anger over the Treaty of Versailles, economic ruin, and fear of communism to seize power.

Result: World War II and the Holocaust. A catastrophic warning of how populism can be hijacked by totalitarianism if rage isn't channeled carefully.

8. Brexit (2016)

What: A modern populist movement where British citizens voted to leave the European Union, saying they wanted sovereignty and control over immigration.

Result: Political chaos, economic uncertainty, but also a major challenge to globalist institutions.

9. Modern U.S. Populism (Trump 2016, Sanders 2016)

What: Different flavors (right-wing and left-wing) of American populism rising at the same time — both tapping into anger at political elites, media, corporations, and globalist policies.

Result: Massive polarization, reshaping of American politics, realignment of voter coalitions (especially working-class shifts), and ongoing culture wars.

Quick Rule of Thumb:
Populism isn't left or right by default. It's an energy — a force — that can swing either way depending on who's leading it and what problems people are reacting to.
And it almost always shows up when the "ruling class" gets too arrogant, corrupt, or out of touch.

The Establishmentarians — on both sides — are fighting back like the devil for his souls. They know what's slipping away. The really old ones - Octogenarians - are dropping like flies off a dried up turd. Deep down, they know the biscuits just came off the gravy train, and they don’t want to be riding shotgun when it goes down.

What Happens Next?

The next president — whoever they are — won't just need to campaign. They'll need to chase. Chase a population that's already learned to navigate around them. Chase voters who don't wait for permission. Chase an electorate that's learning, in real time, how to outmaneuver bureaucracy.

The American spirit — bruised, skeptical, restless — is already a block ahead. And it isn’t slowing down.

You want to win now?

You don't promise better management of a broken system. You promise new ground.

You promise speed. You promise movement. You promise to outpace the collapse instead of standing in it, hands on hips, blaming the other side.

Because the people already know:

The future isn’t about who controls the system.

It’s about who dares to outpace it. Or to burn it down and rebuild it better.

Godspeed,

Ric