11-12-2016, 06:23 PM
(11-12-2016, 04:34 PM)Arkarch Wrote: I am not so worried about Trump - who is 70 yrs old and while determined on some issues, seems entirely ADD on others. Its Pence that concerns me.... obviously accepted for VP in return for unwavoring religious right support. It looks like he has been given free hand to figure out the administration.
It's the Senate and the House of Corporate Lobbyists that will enact and pass bills to turn the social calendar back 120 years. No more Great Society. No more New Deal. Back to the Gilded Age, with farm laborers starving despite working in some of the richest farmland in the world, children toiling in mines and factories, and the 70-hour workweek and 40-year lifespan as the norm for industrial workers. No unions, no medical insurance -- just suffering. Maybe to punish blacks and other minorities who saw through Donald trump and rejected him he will impose Jim Crow, if not Apartheid.
Were I a Communist I would be licking my chops.
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.