The Trump phenomenon shows that we urgently need an alternative to the obsolete capitalism

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It's not only the rapid technological progress, especially in the field of hyper-automation and Artificial Intelligence, that makes capitalism unable to deliver a viable future to the societies. It's also the fact that the dead-end it creates, produces false alternatives like Donald Trump.

As already pointed:

With Trump administration taken over by Goldman Sachs, nothing can surprise us, anymore. The fairy tale of the 'anti-establishment' Trump who would supposedly fight for the interests of the forgotten - by the system - Americans, was collapsed even before Trump election.

What's quite surprising, is how fast the new US president - buddy of the plutocrats, is offering 'earth and water' to the top 1% of the American society, as if they had not already enough at the expense of the 99%. His recent 'achievement', was to sign for more deregulation in favor of the banking mafia that ruined the economy in 2008, destroyed millions of working class Americans and sent waves of financial destruction all over the world. Europe is still on its knees because of the neoliberal destruction and cruel austerity.

Richard Wolff explains:

If you don't want the Trumps of this world to periodically show up and scare everybody, you've got to do something about the basic system that produces the conditions that allow a Trump to get to the position he now occupies.

We need a better politics than having two parties compete for the big corporations to love them, two parties to proudly celebrate capitalism. Real politics needs an opposition, people who think we can do better than capitalism, we ought to try, we ought to discuss it, and the people should have a choice about that. Because if you don't give them that, they are gonna go from one extreme to another, trying to find a way out of the status quo that is no longer acceptable.

I'm amazed that after half a century in which any politician had accepted the name 'Socialist' attached to him or her, thereby committing, effectively, political suicide, Mr. Sanders has shown us that the world has really changed. He could have that label, he could accept the label, he could say he is proud of the label, and millions and millions of Americans said 'that's fine with us', he gets our vote. We will not be the same nation going forward, because of that. It is now openly possible to raise questions about capitalism, to talk about its shortcomings, to explore how we can do better.

Indeed, as the blog pointed before the latest US elections:

Bernie has the background and the ability to change the course of the US politics. He speaks straightly about things buried by the establishment, as if they were absent. Wall Street corruption, growing inequality, corporate funding of politicians by lobbies. He says that he will break the big banks. He will provide free health and education for all the American people. Because of Sanders, Hillary is forced to speak about these issues too. And subsequently, this starts to shape again a fundamental ideological difference between Democrats and Republicans, which was nearly absent for decades.

But none of this would have come to surface if Bernie didn't have the support of the American people. Despite that he came from nowhere, especially the young people mobilized and started to spread his message using the alternative media. Despite that he speaks about Socialism, his popularity grows. The establishment starts to sense the first cracks in its solid structure. But Bernie is only the appropriate tool. It's the American people who make the difference.

No matter who will be elected eventually, the final countdown for the demolition of this brutal system has already started and it's irreversible. The question now is not if, but when it will collapse, and what this collapse will bring the day after. In any case, if people are truly united, they have nothing to fear.

So, what kind of system do we need to replace the obsolete capitalism? Do we need a kind of Democratic Socialism that would be certainly more compatible to the rapid technological progress? Write your thoughts and ideas in the comments below.