A thorough-but-succinct statement of our current situation. Also, a damning enumeration of Dem failures which must be faced if our democracy is to return and then succeed in the long run.
This is a damning list of the actions we, as believers in the importance of preserving this country as we saw it, failed to take. I’m not sure, but I think that if constituents had cared more or bn more concerned about Trump’s & the Republicans actions in his 1st term, some, if not all, the guardrails mentioned wd have bn enacted, as they were after Nixon. But after Nixon most of the populace was truly shocked & appalled by his actions. It is a credit (not sure that’s the right word), to the right-wing media that 1/2 the population has gradually come to accept the revanchist & extreme behavior of republicans as acceptable & even justified b/c the “elite” intelligentsia did not respect the “uneducated.” Oh, yeah & the threat of transgenders.
I think our suspicions were lulled by the very fact that their chosen figurehead is a joke in himself. With the natural tendency to believe that “it couldn’t happen here” & the fact that trump himself is an uneducated, illiterate jerk, the liberals persuaded themselves that no real or unfixable damage could really happen. Those who did see & tried to warn us suffered the usual fate of Cassandra’s.
This is a very important, impressive, analysis of how we got in this mess, and failed to act to stop the neoconfederate avalanche. One of the best pieces I have read in a very long time.
Thank you. I can see how ignorant I am about what happened over the time from Regan (I disliked him on a gut level— repulsed actually).
Living my entire life in a blue state, and always a voter but never a political scholar or even interested in politics, I am now feeling doomed.
So many of my generation felt the pain of corporate greed, white supremacy and of the recent wars, after WWII, wars that were forced on us all for greed and corrupt gains to certain white elites.
Then the nightmare of the Trump monster, the Supreme Court corruption and now concentration camps or prisons, whatever you want to call them and more bad news every day.
But what can a person do against a title wave of hate, bigotry and absolute corruption? Corporations don’t pay taxes. I have been angry about this for decades. Really pissed off. And when it doesn’t have to be a dystopian nightmare.
Why is it always the worst and most vile of humanity who manage to gain control?
I think I know why: Human beings do not learn and evolve toward egalitarian systems. There are way more creeps than good humans. We are outnumbered.
A thorough-but-succinct statement of our current situation. Also, a damning enumeration of Dem failures which must be faced if our democracy is to return and then succeed in the long run.
This is a damning list of the actions we, as believers in the importance of preserving this country as we saw it, failed to take. I’m not sure, but I think that if constituents had cared more or bn more concerned about Trump’s & the Republicans actions in his 1st term, some, if not all, the guardrails mentioned wd have bn enacted, as they were after Nixon. But after Nixon most of the populace was truly shocked & appalled by his actions. It is a credit (not sure that’s the right word), to the right-wing media that 1/2 the population has gradually come to accept the revanchist & extreme behavior of republicans as acceptable & even justified b/c the “elite” intelligentsia did not respect the “uneducated.” Oh, yeah & the threat of transgenders.
I think our suspicions were lulled by the very fact that their chosen figurehead is a joke in himself. With the natural tendency to believe that “it couldn’t happen here” & the fact that trump himself is an uneducated, illiterate jerk, the liberals persuaded themselves that no real or unfixable damage could really happen. Those who did see & tried to warn us suffered the usual fate of Cassandra’s.
This is a very important, impressive, analysis of how we got in this mess, and failed to act to stop the neoconfederate avalanche. One of the best pieces I have read in a very long time.
Thank you. I can see how ignorant I am about what happened over the time from Regan (I disliked him on a gut level— repulsed actually).
Living my entire life in a blue state, and always a voter but never a political scholar or even interested in politics, I am now feeling doomed.
So many of my generation felt the pain of corporate greed, white supremacy and of the recent wars, after WWII, wars that were forced on us all for greed and corrupt gains to certain white elites.
Then the nightmare of the Trump monster, the Supreme Court corruption and now concentration camps or prisons, whatever you want to call them and more bad news every day.
But what can a person do against a title wave of hate, bigotry and absolute corruption? Corporations don’t pay taxes. I have been angry about this for decades. Really pissed off. And when it doesn’t have to be a dystopian nightmare.
Why is it always the worst and most vile of humanity who manage to gain control?
I think I know why: Human beings do not learn and evolve toward egalitarian systems. There are way more creeps than good humans. We are outnumbered.
Thank you for this comprehensive report explaining how we got here.