12-15-2016, 02:58 PM
Aside from big infrastructure projects that will more than anything else enrich his cronies and to cut taxes for the Master Class, the only promise that I have absolute certainty that he will carry out is to cut down the educated middle class to the level of the unskilled laborer in pay and dignity.
I expect that the greatest meaning in life that many of us will have is in resisting a government that shows autocratic tendencies and exudes racial and religious bigotry. I expect to be in plenty of demonstrations and protests. I expect to make placards similar to those that excoriated Ferdinand Marcos and Communist dictators in central and Balkan Europe in the late 1980s. I expect that things will be that serious very fast.
I expect that the greatest meaning in life that many of us will have is in resisting a government that shows autocratic tendencies and exudes racial and religious bigotry. I expect to be in plenty of demonstrations and protests. I expect to make placards similar to those that excoriated Ferdinand Marcos and Communist dictators in central and Balkan Europe in the late 1980s. I expect that things will be that serious very fast.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.