03-28-2020, 09:50 AM
(03-27-2020, 10:15 PM)sbarrera Wrote: The rest of the Culture War, including many of the reasons Trump is hated, seems to be fading into insignificance now. Heck, watch a primary debate from 4-8 weeks ago and see how much of it seems relevant.
Not to say that there aren't some rogues on the Left...
Donald Trump is a consequence of cultural wars in which identity matters more than do competence and service, in which much of what passes as morality for one side is a semi-feudal attitude that 95% of the people exist solely to make people already filthy-rich even more filthy-rich, in which faith in the absurd is a test of moral propriety, and in which the most amoral right-wing authoritarian types moralize loudest.
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.