11-03-2022, 03:48 AM
(11-01-2022, 01:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Obama says politics has not always been this polarized, but these days we need to know the truth that it IS, and that democracy itself is on the ballot. Vote Democratic, or vote for the USA to become Hungary, or Turkey, or Russia.
I am glad to have seen this and to recognize that America can have first-rate leadership again. It is not so much that we need one excellent leader: our system does not give dictatorial powers even to a great President.
The vast majority of the GOP is still aligned with Donald Trump, who could hardly be more different from Obama. Obama exudes the empathy that Donald Trump completely lacks. Obama knows history as well as Trump does not. Obama expresses rational thought that the Q-Anon types pretend to repudiate.
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.