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Swear to my pet dog, Jedi…. I was thinking of you when I posted that.
But I differ with you on a few major points:
1. Punishment will be inflicted by reality, not by me or you.
2. There’s a major division of responsibility for the disaster, if it comes. Harris was only a Vice President while Trump WAS a president and is about to be president again, and it will be his authoritarian rule that does America in- as not only a political power, but as a military and economic power as well.
The seduction of “Only I Can Fix It” never ends well.
You see that as an incidental issue, preferring to highlight “culture” as the main issue.
I also see culture as an issue, but it’s not the main issue.
The main issue, now metastasized over most of the Western world- is an authoritarianism that emphasizes culture as much as you do- and then imposes their culture on everybody else- not simply “political culture”, We in the modern era saw this in spades for the first time in Europe during the Bosnian Civil War. We shouldn’t have been surprised, because two generations before, we defeated the same sort of cultural purity” model in Nazi Germany.
You’d think we’d take the warning to heart. But apparently the Slobodans of the world, as well as the Putins, Orbans and Trumps (and mullahs, the Bibis and the Grand Emirs of the Islamic State-can always find a following to enforce their regimes of cultural “purity”
It’s an old, old fiction, and a deadly one at that.
But, that’s what we just voted for, so for the foreseeable future, that’s the road we will be traveling.
Trump won with a majority of votes. The speed at which that majority disappears depends upon the speed at which Trump’s fever dreams descend upon the heads of those who voted for him.
We’re already hearing “I didn’t know that we’d end up paying for Trump’s tarrifs!”
May their numbers increase.
