01-24-2022, 11:56 AM
(01-24-2022, 11:26 AM)David Horn Wrote: FWIW, I'm noticing that everyday ordinary people are starting to question why we are still trying to be one country. I haven't seen that in the past. The real question, when does that become an issue for the majority (or at least, a large minority)? If and when it does, the USA is nearing its end as a united cluster of diverse states, and what follows may be chaos.
Some Americans would rather live in a liberal society with an activist government that makes personal failure unlikely; some would like their superstitions and bigotry confirmed and enforced. It's basically Germany or a Christian fundamentalist version of Iran.
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.