06-29-2017, 10:32 AM
Donald Trump is as much symptom as cause. We have the severest economic inequality since the 1920s, and that is without regional under-development of the sort that existed in the 1920s or the institutional racism as it was known to exist as late as the 1960s. White privilege may be real, but it is not so severe that being a Mexican-American in Houston is worse for one's hopes in life than is being white in southeastern Kentucky.
Tolerance and inclusion? The UK looks like paradise in contrast to America. But then, Britain abolished slavery thirty years before the USA, didn't need a bloody civil war to decide that slavery was unsuited to a modern society, and never went through a Jim Crow era in any of its colonies except in South Africa.
Health and wellness? Is the image of Americans developing the bulk of football linebackers while drinking sodas or beer and eating chips while watching TV unique to America?
Tolerance and inclusion? The UK looks like paradise in contrast to America. But then, Britain abolished slavery thirty years before the USA, didn't need a bloody civil war to decide that slavery was unsuited to a modern society, and never went through a Jim Crow era in any of its colonies except in South Africa.
Health and wellness? Is the image of Americans developing the bulk of football linebackers while drinking sodas or beer and eating chips while watching TV unique to America?
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.