09-01-2022, 05:20 AM
I will have to recognize that Donald Trump did not tank the economy on his way out as revenge upon people that he considers to have 'betrayed' him; he is that vile and vindictive a person, or so I thought. Maybe he did not have the ability to do so. If he took classified information, then he may have done so in revenge against the CIA and the Armed Forces who "failed" to preserve his failed Presidency after January 20, 2021. He is that vile and vindictive a person.
We will face economic insecurity again. As a nation we did not learn the "right" lessons that America learned during the Great Depression because we endured only half the meltdown. We agreed collectively on the need to prevent a full replay of the three-year meltdown of 1929-1932, but we did not get the social reforms necessary for solving the deficiencies in American political and economic life that made the Crash of 2008 (a close parallel to the Crash of 1930, the unforeseen destruction of asset values and the onset of high levels of unemployment). In 2010 the super-rich had the assets with which to buy the political system; in 1932 they were too concerned with survival of their assets to waste money on corrupting the political process.
About half our politicians truly believe that he who holds the gold rightly makes the rules that we must all obey, one of which is "Smile through your suffering, ye peons!" They use conspicuous consumption, often under the cover of the fraudulent word "luxury", as a salve for overall unhappiness and debasing fear in life.
We will face economic insecurity again. As a nation we did not learn the "right" lessons that America learned during the Great Depression because we endured only half the meltdown. We agreed collectively on the need to prevent a full replay of the three-year meltdown of 1929-1932, but we did not get the social reforms necessary for solving the deficiencies in American political and economic life that made the Crash of 2008 (a close parallel to the Crash of 1930, the unforeseen destruction of asset values and the onset of high levels of unemployment). In 2010 the super-rich had the assets with which to buy the political system; in 1932 they were too concerned with survival of their assets to waste money on corrupting the political process.
About half our politicians truly believe that he who holds the gold rightly makes the rules that we must all obey, one of which is "Smile through your suffering, ye peons!" They use conspicuous consumption, often under the cover of the fraudulent word "luxury", as a salve for overall unhappiness and debasing fear in life.
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.