(01-09-2017, 01:04 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Not interested, Pbrower. Please direct your "The End is Nigh" rants somewhere else.
I wish I could believe otherwise. In fact I believed otherwise until late in the evening on November 8, 2016.
If the end is only mine -- who cares but a few people who know me personally? As long as Donald Trump is President I expect to keep Valium and vodka close at hand. I have been close to the suicidal edge for reasons other than political distress or medical calamity, and I know what a suicidal person thinks -- "I hate life!"
The end is nigh only for democracy in the USA. We do not know what the rules will be eleven days from now, do we?
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.