07-03-2022, 07:02 PM
(05-09-2022, 02:06 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(05-07-2022, 08:04 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Let me express what a Hard Right America would look like.....
I don't disagree. But what people seem to gloss over today is the gravity of the current 4T. We are living under rulers who deny climate change and delay the needed action on it. If this continues, not only will our republic be forever and irretrievably ruined by the hard Right, but our world as a place that can sustain our lives and civilization will be damaged beyond repair. Although the destruction will happen over a number of the following decades, it will be of such an accelerating nature that no second turning or Awakening will be able to take hold or stem the destruction. The tipping points will have been tipped. What will follow our current 4T, which will last through the 2020s, will merely be continuous decline and worsening crisis; a never-ending 4T.
Don't even contemplate what the next 2T will look like, until we know whether the Republicans have been defeated and a reform decade has taken hold in the 2020s. To hold any other idea than this is to put your head in the sand. Right now, just one senator has blocked the start of this reform decade. What a ridiculous tragedy this is. Write to Manchin and read him the riot act now.
Update: we have just had some Congressional hearings, We have seen ludicrous stuff in itself (people bringing Trump and Confederate flags into the Capitol building) and the fake-electors stunt, either of which is ludicrous in itself. Put that together and you see what we are up against.
Some people want to take away our freedom so that we can all be subjects of slumlords, shylocks, and crony capitalists... and have entities like FoX news as our sole sources of information. If an entity like PBS tries to bring news feeds from the BBC, France 24, Deutsche Welle, RAI, or NHK, then those will be blocked. Who needs troubling contradictions to the official story? If you live in a place close to the Canadian or Mexican border, then you will find that Canadian and Mexican broadcasting will be blocked from your cable TV. You will of course not be allowed to use an antenna because that might allow you to watch TV from outside your zone of propaganda. Radio will be turned into much the same thing... satellite radio from accepted feeds or none at all.
News stories might end with such a story as "the potato crop is coming in".
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.