This one is spot on. They have awoken the population and even triggered the red hat crowd. I doubt those folks will be in the mood to forgive once they realize they’ve been exploited by Dear Leader.
I'm hopeful you're right and I'm wrong, but I just don't see it. We've become a much worse people in the last sixty years. Much more passive and sycophantic. For many, the default mode of problem solving is to find a way to get authority on their side rather than to take matters into their own hands. To earn money and status via rentseeking rather than creation or rejuvenation. America has become Russified and Balkanized, and those most concerned with changing things, and most in position to, are those who wish to accelerate these developments.
Asking from Europe, so I don’t have an eye on daily developments in the US. I know what your government has been doing and I know about last weekend’s mass protests. But what’s happening, concretely, to justify your opinion that the second American revolution has begun? A revolution is a big deal, and so far, the only one I see from here is the one carried out by the oligarchs. Is there a popular revolution underway to remove the oligarchs?
What you describe is maybe not so much a "revolution" as an awakening. In a dysfunctional relationship with a narcissist there often comes a time when the victim says "enough"! I hope its so. There are some positive signs. If we keep pointing at the truth/reality of what is actually happening and offer the right kind of "life saver", it may just happen.
No Quarter
This one is spot on. They have awoken the population and even triggered the red hat crowd. I doubt those folks will be in the mood to forgive once they realize they’ve been exploited by Dear Leader.
There are going to be a lot of hangry people soon, and it’s not going to be pretty.
Hangry and well armed. Millions of them.
I'm hopeful you're right and I'm wrong, but I just don't see it. We've become a much worse people in the last sixty years. Much more passive and sycophantic. For many, the default mode of problem solving is to find a way to get authority on their side rather than to take matters into their own hands. To earn money and status via rentseeking rather than creation or rejuvenation. America has become Russified and Balkanized, and those most concerned with changing things, and most in position to, are those who wish to accelerate these developments.
Asking from Europe, so I don’t have an eye on daily developments in the US. I know what your government has been doing and I know about last weekend’s mass protests. But what’s happening, concretely, to justify your opinion that the second American revolution has begun? A revolution is a big deal, and so far, the only one I see from here is the one carried out by the oligarchs. Is there a popular revolution underway to remove the oligarchs?
Terrible things are going to happen and there is no way we have contributed to it.
What you describe is maybe not so much a "revolution" as an awakening. In a dysfunctional relationship with a narcissist there often comes a time when the victim says "enough"! I hope its so. There are some positive signs. If we keep pointing at the truth/reality of what is actually happening and offer the right kind of "life saver", it may just happen.
Trump only needs to be Dictator for one day...tomorrow.
Great rant.
This is what I wish to say!
Good stuff, but please,pus not puss