09-08-2018, 09:51 PM
(09-08-2018, 07:50 PM)TheNomad Wrote:(09-08-2018, 07:47 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(09-08-2018, 03:58 PM)TheNomad Wrote:(09-08-2018, 02:12 PM)sbarrera Wrote: There was an op-ed before the election by Andrew Sullivan where he stated that the if Trump won the election, then both the Democratic and Republican parties would be destroyed. That is what happened, so it's no surprise to see unity across party lines - those lines really aren't there any more.
I've been saying this. I no longer feel as if there is even ONE political party anymore. AND that it might be the culmination of something I really don't like and that is unfortunate: all our sentiments in the political process have become "who do we DISLIKE THE LEAST". Instead of what it should be: "who do we WANT".
Our whole political system is a wreck. We are in the most dangerous time in American politics since the advent of the American Civil War. At least America united quickly in the wake of the economic meltdown that started the Great Depression, and American politics were quite placid as the Second World War loomed upon us.
We have never been at so great a risk of a political or military coup.
You say now a coup is possible? Then what does it look like? I'm confused. Describe an example of a coup in America right now.
Seven Days in May.
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.