01-09-2017, 11:06 PM
(01-09-2017, 02:23 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(01-07-2017, 09:31 AM)radind Wrote:(01-07-2017, 05:51 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The world is safe enough with the USA as a benign superpower. It is in mortal danger with the USA as an Evil Empire. So what is the difference between a benign superpower and an Evil Empire? A moral or at least cautious leader... and an evil, reckless one.
Much that was unthinkable two years ago or unlikely two months ago stares us in the face. A benign republic becomes an Evil Empire in two weeks.
You see the USA becoming Evil. I see the USA becoming better.
-We must wait for results to see what actually happens.
For now , all we have is speculation.
I see the US becoming what all the so called "America Firsters" and fans of Fr. Coughlin wanted. A withdrawn, tin foil clad, racist, nobody.
Kewel!!!!!
True. Insanity and cruelty are not survival values.
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.