11-19-2016, 11:30 AM
(11-19-2016, 06:14 AM)Galen Wrote:Like it or not, even New Zealand is going to have to deal with the consequences of decisions in the DC. It may be unfair but there is nothing I can do about it. I am more interested in getting you to see things ahead of everyone else so that you may make the decisions that will improve your own life. History will proceed no matter how annoyed you are with the US but understanding it and the present may yet allow you to avoid misfortune.(11-19-2016, 05:50 AM)taramarie Wrote:Not interested and I am done with America. They will destroy themselves and bloody deserve it for their behaviour towards each other. I will simply sit and wait for the day they destroy themselves but hope they wake up before then. I am done. They are full of irrationality and it is destroying them while they busy themselves pointing fingers at the enemy....their own. Yep I am done.(11-19-2016, 05:44 AM)Galen Wrote: [quote pid='13451' dateline='1479551693']
I asked you to look at Trump's appointments in order to understand what is really happening and to take the measure of the man for yourself. I don't regard him as a cause but rather an effect but understanding his intentions may give you some insight where this current turning is going.
As for Trump, I will say this: By becoming 45th President he has accomplished the impossible. By the usual standards of the last eighty years he should have never pulled this off. Who knows? Trump may yet beat the odds again. I am in a position to know because statistically I should have been dead many years ago.
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I see your suggestions as advice on how to live a nastier world in which economic elites trample over every human decency and expect people to be thankful that they get to survive in a far nastier world in which the economic elites rule without any lasting contest (because anyone who opposes them will be rendered helpless, if not murdered outright). If that is the world that I must accept as a condition of survival, then I have nothing to live for.
Donald Trump has achieved what seems impossible -- bringing what looks like dictatorship to America. Such is his style, and he has doubled down on his style after being elected. This is the Mordred of the modern world. I have no claim that the Arthurian legend shaped ideas of our Founding Fathers -- but I expect the Round Table to have been smashed to smithereens this time.
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.