It breaks my heart to read the truth in your words, but God has not left America. We are here. You dare to write these words, and I will write also.
Thank you for having the guts to write this. I don't understand why the people in this country do not see what you clearly point out. I do blame education. I think history and civics are the most important lessons (OK, so I did teach history and civics). Without an understanding of the past, and an understanding the basic protections supposedly built into government, how can people act to protect themselves?
They are blind to the danger. Some sense it, and many do not.
It's late at night. I'm supposed to be in bed, so I'm rambling.
But, thank you.
But we must laugh at this lunacy!
If it was a skit on Laugh In (how I date myself), maybe laugh. Now it is tragic, tragic because the emperor has no clothes...no longer a fairy tale but reality.
Yeah, it is a reality now.
20 years ago, I would believe that this is overly dramatic, like Borat perhaps, and no heads of state can do this.
Now it is just a reality.
I have started reading the book. It is shocking how similar the deconstruction of the state is between the two countries. As if there is a template and people took it and re-fabricated.
Yes, I blame the education, rather lack there of too. However the surprising bit for me is how the educated people have turned a blind eye to the truth and reality.
I don't know if they have. Almost everyone on the left, including most academics, have been calling out exactly what has been going on for awhile. Many traditional conservatives are also starting to speak out against him. To me what is worrying is corporation. They know exactly what is going on, but they choose to bend the knee and give bribes in the hope that they can deflect his attention. As John Oliver said recently in his rant against Disney for the Kimmel suspension, "You feed the bully and he doesn't go away, he just comes back hungrier."
They have been waiting for someone like this, for a regime like this, for more than 100 years, ever since the Progressive Era. They want to turn the clock back to the 19th century when there were no controls on corporate growth. When there were no labor regulations, no environmental restrictions.
The Golden Age for them was the age of the Robber Barons.
The corporations are propping up this government.
It is a template, tried and true. The people who plotted the return to power in 2024 were very careful. They are quite deliberate in what they want, and they know how to use the levers of power, the mechanism of government to smoothly achieve their goals.
It's not over, though. I refuse to believe that.