LTMMC
Really Experienced
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- Jul 19, 2020
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I am getting ever more convinced that the once-mighty US of A may well become reduced to a third-rate society over time, via one overarching factor: the shamefully abominable stupidity of almost half of its population, that part which still is aligned with Trump and Trumpism. Unfortunately the antiquated US constitution gives this minority overwhelming political power in America; a huge unfairness, but one nobody in power has ever bothered to rectify. On the contrary, ongoing gerrymandering keeps making things worse.
When I first heard the MAGA mania raise its dumbified voice, that remined me of my own county in 1933. We did not have a PR machine then with slogans like Trump invented, so Hitler did not use “MGGA” as his mantra. Instead he called what he started the Law to Protect the Civil Service System. With the result of people like Albert Einstein and Alfred Schumpeter ending up teaching in USA, no longer in Germany and Austria. And with them countless other Germans with intellectual minds.
Resulting finally in Germany having become Insignificant with time, instead of great as hoped for.
But now, just look at the power outages in Texas, anti-trust laws rolled back practically everywhere, insurrection gone largely unpunished in DC, and voting rights trampled in countless places. Plus a dysfunctional Congress, and you see a banana republic at work.
Harris and Biden will have a very tough time getting done what must be done, to merely keep America alive. And actual clean-up reforms will very likely never come about. All because of some stubborn shitheads in the US Senate and in a party, which once had the term “Grand” in its name. And an electorate infested by Trumpism to a large degree. Because of radical talk radio and a highly corrupt and corrupting Australian family having captured American TV media to a large extent. Infesting every hog sty in America with Trump’s perennial lies.
I realize things were as bad or worse in my country from 1933-45. But that is no excuse for America to go down that road also. Thomas Friedman published an article in the NY Times on 26-Jan: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/opinion/us-capitalism-socialism.html, Opinion | Made in the U.S.A.: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest. - The New York Times (nytimes.com) which I find highly worth reading. And he points out where the American ship is sailing, unless some course corrections are made.
Root cause of the American problem now, just as much as the German problem in the 1930s, is a significant share of the voters having become dumbified by political propaganda. A democracy without enough democrats defending it, and keeping it renewed, must falter. Thomas Jefferson already knew about that in the 18th century.
When I first heard the MAGA mania raise its dumbified voice, that remined me of my own county in 1933. We did not have a PR machine then with slogans like Trump invented, so Hitler did not use “MGGA” as his mantra. Instead he called what he started the Law to Protect the Civil Service System. With the result of people like Albert Einstein and Alfred Schumpeter ending up teaching in USA, no longer in Germany and Austria. And with them countless other Germans with intellectual minds.
Resulting finally in Germany having become Insignificant with time, instead of great as hoped for.
But now, just look at the power outages in Texas, anti-trust laws rolled back practically everywhere, insurrection gone largely unpunished in DC, and voting rights trampled in countless places. Plus a dysfunctional Congress, and you see a banana republic at work.
Harris and Biden will have a very tough time getting done what must be done, to merely keep America alive. And actual clean-up reforms will very likely never come about. All because of some stubborn shitheads in the US Senate and in a party, which once had the term “Grand” in its name. And an electorate infested by Trumpism to a large degree. Because of radical talk radio and a highly corrupt and corrupting Australian family having captured American TV media to a large extent. Infesting every hog sty in America with Trump’s perennial lies.
I realize things were as bad or worse in my country from 1933-45. But that is no excuse for America to go down that road also. Thomas Friedman published an article in the NY Times on 26-Jan: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/opinion/us-capitalism-socialism.html, Opinion | Made in the U.S.A.: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest. - The New York Times (nytimes.com) which I find highly worth reading. And he points out where the American ship is sailing, unless some course corrections are made.
Root cause of the American problem now, just as much as the German problem in the 1930s, is a significant share of the voters having become dumbified by political propaganda. A democracy without enough democrats defending it, and keeping it renewed, must falter. Thomas Jefferson already knew about that in the 18th century.
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Fortunately for us liberals it's so far kept them in check. 
