06-13-2020, 05:51 AM
(06-13-2020, 05:25 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(06-13-2020, 05:04 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Donald Trump and his political allies are clearly on the wrong side of history now, and having mucked things up so badly they will be fortunate if the accounting for their misdeeds and incompetence will be gentle.
I would be inclined to doubt gentleness. In the high, you generally stomp on the remnants of the old values with forethought and vindictiveness. I suspect there will be movements directed against the sort of political fantasies the red have indulged in during the unraveling.
Maybe the judgment is upon the worst of the worst such as war criminals. But after the Crisis Era is over, enmities tend to die off fast. The victors recognize that the soldier drafted as cannon fodder for the losing side or the dazed and hungry people milling about in the wreckage of a once-porspeous society that was on the wrong end of a war are soon recognized as much victims as anyone else.
I expect Donald Trump and his coterie to avoid judgment in America. If they see no pardon they might take flight. Such could be convenient in 2021.
We have big problems to take care of. people part of the solution will be relevant; people with no solutions (which includes reversion to the practices that got us into this mess) will be rendered irrelevant even if nothing worse happens to them than electoral defeat in 2022 or 2024. 3T ideas that brought America into Crisis will become irrelevant and thus be rejected. That will seem adequate rebuke to those ho harbored such ideas. That will be unpleasant, but nobody deserve a stay in any 're-education camp' of the type that appeared in Vietnam after the Communists took over the South.
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.