El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
The USA is slip sliding away on banana peels as it falls into the dystopian abyss. From my perspective someone like Trump is the perfect criminal conman to oversee the final days of the USA. Hollywood couldn’t have cast a more perfect character than the self loathing orange monster as president. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Thank you, again, Mr. Hedges, for putting all this madness into perspective.
It seems that there has always been an impulse among "Americans" to have a king. To have a big, strong daddy who will protect them. George Washington, to his credit, resisted the effort to make him one. Donald Dumpster plays to this impulse, and to those of us who buy into it, I would only say, "Be careful what you wish for."
i assume that many people around the globe wish s.o. would solve their problems for them - w./o. causing additional complications in the process - bc solving problems on your own these days is not an easy task and might tempt you more than once to throw in the towel.
in europe, where i'm based, unsettling right-wing tendencies point in the same direction:
the mega-rich are getting richer, dissent is being silenced. we have to go to war against our [supposed] 'eternal enemies' - while the globe might be overheating and millions of people starve along the way. but we don't need to care ...
re. "be careful what you wish for": #47 is already in power. damage is being done NOW!
This has been obvious, long before Trump. The United States is well on its way to being Brasil, albeit a Brasil with less attractive females, worse weather, and a more hyperbelligerent foreign policy. AKA an empire. This suits the oligarchs just dandy.
Trump is simply the empire dropping any remaining pretense of being anything other than an empire.
kinda silly and boring to mention the "attractiveness of females"..... Sounds like Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice. And we know what she thought of HIM... 😂
You are correct. The Left is fragmented and easily distracted. The right wing extremists are extremely focused. They played the long game for fifty years.
whenever i think chris hedges' articles can't get any better, he surprises me by getting even better: visionary, illustrative, courageous and to the point. coupled with excellent pieces of art by mr. fish, a similarly inexhaustible source of accurately scathing criticism and skill, i draw ... strength from their work, knowing that WE MUST RESIST THEM - before they come for us, too.
thank you so much to both of you, chris hedges and mr. fish!
What goes around, comes around. And I must say: After following the deaths and disappearances (often following torture) of Latin American young people, from Argentina to Guatemala all through my working life, there's a kind of depressing schadenfreude about it all.
Teaching all day then coming home to read a Canadian press that still in those days reported on Latin America confirmed my socialist up bringing.
Capitalism is a killer. It needs a constant supply of resources, and it goes to where those resources are, and destroys local (inefficient) economies to extract them.
What Americans are likely going to experience in the short term, is the cannibalism Capitalism has to practise....feeding on its own........when those foreign resources run out.
But there is hope. Perhaps imperialism will win and regime change in Venezuela and annexation of Canada will stave off the inevitable for a decade or two. We are an ugly species when pushed to the economic wall.
jean ziegler, a formidable swiss sociologist, author and former UN special rapporteur on the right to food, called our world order "cannibalistic!" decades ago.
[in his younger years he was fidel castro's chauffeur for some time, by the way.]
It takes a lot of propaganda, and a lot of dark money........to turn the teachings of Jesus into a right wing cult. But your rural poor in America.......and their obscenely wealthy 'handlers' have managed it.
Our Tommy Douglas, father of medical care, was a Babtist minister. In those days, Christians subscribed to something called the social gospel. Wish a few mega church BSers would read up on it.
I remember talking with David Orchard about the fact that Socialist Tommy Douglas did't face assassination attempts from the US government. I believe the Saskatchewan Premier and CCF Leader, Tommy Douglas, was much beloved by Eleanor Roosevelt which might have preserved him.
We learned late in the game how American border folks were told to scrutinize us CCF'ers at the border. And I've never voted Liberal because I knew who it was in Saskatchewan that worked with the American Medical Association to try and kibosh our single payer medicare, when the CCF were putting it in place.
Most progressives lite still don't quite understand social democracy.....and continue to fear the hand that would feed them....but I'm not surprised the Eleanor liked Tommy. He was one of the most authentic, and funny politicians we've produced.
My fav story is how when a Liberal said in our House of Parliament that he could swallow the diminuative Tommy in one bite.......Tommy replied:
"That might be true. But one thing is for certain, the honourable member would then have more brains in his stomach than he's got in his head'.
He nailed it with that comment. Real intelligence is rarely pompous, self satisfied, or abusive to others.
They missed the part where Jesus whipped the money changers from the temple. But for sure, the Calvinist idea that there's nothing you can do to be saved, you're saved by Grace......has always been accompanied by the idea if you're prosperous.....you must be among the 'elect'.
The selfish beliefs multiply easily. Likely because they are excuses for cold hearts. They also missed the part about the good Samaritan but hold on to fairy tales about the golden goose.
he has written a number of fascinating books in french. not all of them have been translated into english, alas. 'betting on famine: why the world still goes hungry' is one of them. one of his best-known books is 'the swiss, the gold and the dead'.
I'm speaking ironically I guess......for sure I'm not for either option.
But I lived in America while doing my Masters in Literature.....in the late 60's, early 70's....and while there are many wonderful people there........they are mostly ignorant of the 'good works' their military does abroad.........and even in the Viet Nam era.......prone to telling me kaka like: "there was wrong on both sides".
I didnt' have the phrase 'both sidism" to lob at them then..........but at 21 I was gobsmacked by how easily they could march into other people's land....and then chastise the natives for 'not playing fair'.
They are inheritors of a capitalist imperialism that replaced British imperialism. I think the British still feel pretty good about themselves as well......pretty impressed if their monarch says "SORRY" for centuries of IMPERIALIST THEFT. I capitalize that, not to shout at anyone, but to ask that we PAY ATTENTION.
Western powers were seldom the good guys when they marched into other countries.....or sent their secret police like the CIA to stir things up for the benefit of the corporations.
HOW ANYONE CAN JUSTIFY/SUPPORT GLOBAL CAPITALISM ONCE THEY KNOW THE WHOLE STORY HAS TO DEPEND ON RACISM...you know, that old 'white man's burden'?
Trump is just the latest in that bullshit...........I've read about Hugo Chavez. He was a good man and his people knew it. BUT ITS AMERICA'S OIL, DON'T THEY KNOW???
Canada has TAR....bitumen also. So for sure, one way out of America's present dilemma, is more wars abroad....and we've tied ourselves so closely to them, Trump believes he might engineer a PEACEFUL TAKEOVER. I suspect Carney fears that is entirely possible so is trying to prevent it by APPEASEMENT.
Look at the present budget......it's trying to do what the Americans demand of us. Period. And sorry for the long exposition...
Everything ugly.....everywhere ugly. And for the kids in the street, they get to just be happy if they can acquire a couple of the coins....who's mug is on it won't matter.
Assolutamente. The history of the country is filled with injustice. Trump supporters think he is for the common man because he said he is. They are desperate for someone high up to care about them and despite all the evidence to the contrary, cling to this belief.
Well, apparently, you and I aren't, but by my standards of truly awakening, it would require some genuine education -- or re-education, such as Zinn's history (among other sources) as required reading and substitution for the crap they teach in HS. A genuine understanding of the roots that have led this society to the illnesses from which it suffers is necessary I think. Perhaps I've lived too long and am too demanding of my fellow citizens.
I really appreciated this reference to all of the President’s many enablers:
“Institutions, from the press to the universities, kneel down before the idiocy of El Presidente. Legislatures are obsequious echo chambers for El Presidente’s whims and self-delusions. It is a world of magical realism, where fantasy replaces reality, mythology replaces history, the immoral is moral, tyranny is democracy and lies are true.”
The support of complicit business leaders, universities, and law firms has been critical to cementing the president’s arbitrary power.
I agree with you, Chris Hedges, that the Katie Johnson case presents an especially damning example of Trump's apparent reoccurring child rape syndrome. I cover it in detail in the outcome of my investigation cited below.
Katie Johnson is not the only example of Trump's rape sprees involving girls, boys and women. There is much on the topic on the open internet outside the boundaries of the"Epstein Files." The largest part of the "Epstein files" should be the documentation that still has not coalesced into tangible form. The missing part of the files so far are those that should be devoted to the many criminal prosecution that have yet to take place. What is the role of Benjamin Netanyahu in negotiating the blackmail with Trump and others who have clearly been subjected to the Epstein/Maxwwell/Wexner/Dershowitz operation.
Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are certainly not the only predators in this matter which should be still is still in its investigation infancy. I big starting point yet to be properly addressed in the actual investigation is how Jeffrey Epstein actually died in prison. As has been widely reported, Jeffrey's brother says he cannot rule out the possibility that Trump is behind the killing. It definitely was not suicide as has been reported by the those no doubt implicated in the one of the most high-profile criminal cover ups in US history. The pathetic Cash Patel has made a real fool of himself on this topic. See
I thought when I started to write the essay I that I basically understood the main outlines of what I wanted to say. Then when I starting to jot it down I'd check this and that, with the result that I kept falling into rabbit hole after rabbit hole. I discovered an amazing and startling vista of US presidential history that continues by and large to remain well covered up. So far I'm still waiting for some engaging correspondence with a conscientious reader.
comparing the u.s. to banana republics is an insult to banana republics. that said there are some inaccuracies in this essay. first trump never suggested injecting bleach to cure COVID.https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-inject-bleach-covid-19/. second he did not say Tylenol causes autism. he said there might be a link between pregnant women taking Tylenol and autism. he did suggest using ultraviolet light to kill the stars 2 virus which it actually does but he suggested it for hard surfaces. many people used ultraviolet to disinfect counters, packages, etc. as for the court cases against Brennan and Bolton , they richly deserve to be dragged into court. there is more than enough to label trump a wannabe dictator w/o stretching the facts.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” --Karl Rove to journalist Ron Suskind, 2004
When the Ds went neolib, they dumped the New Deal in support of the same econopathy as the Rs. Now globally dominant is the Chicago School of Economics founded by Milton Friedman. Who advised Chile's brutal dictator Pinochet because "democracy interferes with Market efficiency."
Add to that Biden's Dept. of State was run by neocons trained by Dick Cheney. The fantasy of neocons is a U.S. dominated unipolar world enforced by the military. Right wingers are horrified by talk of One World if it's in any way equitable, but fine with this form of empire.
The D party elite says nothing against any of this. Given their economic beliefs, no wonder. There isn't much remaining to trickle up from the rapidly fading middle class or to extract from devastated ecosystems. But there's sure profit in forever wars--at least in the short run. And in the long run, it won't be their problem.
The 20%er upper middle class administrators and professionals whom the D party really represents will be okay no matter what happens. They're the ones who run the business and bureaucracy of dictatorships, too. A modern version of the entitled who serve a king.
The problem I have with these kinds of descriptions is that men are positioned as the norm. Not one of these examples is a woman, and even at their worst autocratic women have not been defined by their sadism or sexual violence. Men are not the norm, they are should not get to own nouns like dictator or autocrat without qualification of their own particular firms defined by the toxicity and violence of patriarchal dominance and control, shielding the most fragile of egos. Please define these toxic patriarchs appropriately. Women are 52% of the population, 0000.nothing percent of the sexually violent, avaricious despots in history. Please stop sweeping the patriarchy under the carpet as if it's a given, or a norm. It's a violent, repressive system that produces violent repressive tyrants, whose worst damage is done to women and girls. They do not represent us, they are not found in our population, it's not good enough to assume this is an unwritten yet understood disclaimer.
The book is in on Trump. The disgusting, criminal vulgarity is sufficiently exposed to enough people to remove him from office. The only way to it is to jail him.
I don't believe we will accept "banana republic" much longer.
I agree, and I hope that, with particular reference to jailing Trump, that you are spot-on. He deserves nothing less than to rot in a jail the rest of his earthly existence
The USA is slip sliding away on banana peels as it falls into the dystopian abyss. From my perspective someone like Trump is the perfect criminal conman to oversee the final days of the USA. Hollywood couldn’t have cast a more perfect character than the self loathing orange monster as president. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
You're so right! You can't make this shit up!
Thank you, again, Mr. Hedges, for putting all this madness into perspective.
It seems that there has always been an impulse among "Americans" to have a king. To have a big, strong daddy who will protect them. George Washington, to his credit, resisted the effort to make him one. Donald Dumpster plays to this impulse, and to those of us who buy into it, I would only say, "Be careful what you wish for."
i assume that many people around the globe wish s.o. would solve their problems for them - w./o. causing additional complications in the process - bc solving problems on your own these days is not an easy task and might tempt you more than once to throw in the towel.
in europe, where i'm based, unsettling right-wing tendencies point in the same direction:
the mega-rich are getting richer, dissent is being silenced. we have to go to war against our [supposed] 'eternal enemies' - while the globe might be overheating and millions of people starve along the way. but we don't need to care ...
re. "be careful what you wish for": #47 is already in power. damage is being done NOW!
Europe has been buying SOCIAL GOALS put out by SOCIAL LIBRALS
That goal has turned to integrating NEW PEOPLE into society as part of that SOCIAL GOAL
AGain individual goals are dismissed as greedy or inconsequential - in case of those already integrated
Those new social goals do not apply to you this time . You are GREEDY
they do
But it is not a person
the KING state
This has been obvious, long before Trump. The United States is well on its way to being Brasil, albeit a Brasil with less attractive females, worse weather, and a more hyperbelligerent foreign policy. AKA an empire. This suits the oligarchs just dandy.
Trump is simply the empire dropping any remaining pretense of being anything other than an empire.
Yes. I've said as much in my comment above.
When imperialism comes home it is shocking. Had Americans read more widely outside of their own entitled borders........they'd be more prepared.
Humans are herd animals as easily led as any sheep.
LED by instinct - nor by any choice
Why I call elected people rulers
I decide if they are leaders
You are so right. I see jarring examples of this every damn day, and it defies any attempt I can make to understand it. Goddess help the rest of us
kinda silly and boring to mention the "attractiveness of females"..... Sounds like Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice. And we know what she thought of HIM... 😂
The left will never come to power, in part because they can always be distracted with p.c. issues.
There is a reason that I wrote what I did.
You are correct. The Left is fragmented and easily distracted. The right wing extremists are extremely focused. They played the long game for fifty years.
whenever i think chris hedges' articles can't get any better, he surprises me by getting even better: visionary, illustrative, courageous and to the point. coupled with excellent pieces of art by mr. fish, a similarly inexhaustible source of accurately scathing criticism and skill, i draw ... strength from their work, knowing that WE MUST RESIST THEM - before they come for us, too.
thank you so much to both of you, chris hedges and mr. fish!
What goes around, comes around. And I must say: After following the deaths and disappearances (often following torture) of Latin American young people, from Argentina to Guatemala all through my working life, there's a kind of depressing schadenfreude about it all.
Teaching all day then coming home to read a Canadian press that still in those days reported on Latin America confirmed my socialist up bringing.
Capitalism is a killer. It needs a constant supply of resources, and it goes to where those resources are, and destroys local (inefficient) economies to extract them.
What Americans are likely going to experience in the short term, is the cannibalism Capitalism has to practise....feeding on its own........when those foreign resources run out.
But there is hope. Perhaps imperialism will win and regime change in Venezuela and annexation of Canada will stave off the inevitable for a decade or two. We are an ugly species when pushed to the economic wall.
America is the Pusher.
jean ziegler, a formidable swiss sociologist, author and former UN special rapporteur on the right to food, called our world order "cannibalistic!" decades ago.
[in his younger years he was fidel castro's chauffeur for some time, by the way.]
It takes a lot of propaganda, and a lot of dark money........to turn the teachings of Jesus into a right wing cult. But your rural poor in America.......and their obscenely wealthy 'handlers' have managed it.
Our Tommy Douglas, father of medical care, was a Babtist minister. In those days, Christians subscribed to something called the social gospel. Wish a few mega church BSers would read up on it.
I remember talking with David Orchard about the fact that Socialist Tommy Douglas did't face assassination attempts from the US government. I believe the Saskatchewan Premier and CCF Leader, Tommy Douglas, was much beloved by Eleanor Roosevelt which might have preserved him.
We learned late in the game how American border folks were told to scrutinize us CCF'ers at the border. And I've never voted Liberal because I knew who it was in Saskatchewan that worked with the American Medical Association to try and kibosh our single payer medicare, when the CCF were putting it in place.
Most progressives lite still don't quite understand social democracy.....and continue to fear the hand that would feed them....but I'm not surprised the Eleanor liked Tommy. He was one of the most authentic, and funny politicians we've produced.
My fav story is how when a Liberal said in our House of Parliament that he could swallow the diminuative Tommy in one bite.......Tommy replied:
"That might be true. But one thing is for certain, the honourable member would then have more brains in his stomach than he's got in his head'.
He nailed it with that comment. Real intelligence is rarely pompous, self satisfied, or abusive to others.
that is a great story. Tommy Douglas was a great man, and Eleanor Roosevelt was a great woman.
They subscribe to the 'Prosperity Gospel'. They have money because they deserve it, and should have even more. The poor 'deserve' it.
They missed the part where Jesus whipped the money changers from the temple. But for sure, the Calvinist idea that there's nothing you can do to be saved, you're saved by Grace......has always been accompanied by the idea if you're prosperous.....you must be among the 'elect'.
The selfish beliefs multiply easily. Likely because they are excuses for cold hearts. They also missed the part about the good Samaritan but hold on to fairy tales about the golden goose.
I must learn more about Mr. Ziegler. That is quite a resume.
he has written a number of fascinating books in french. not all of them have been translated into english, alas. 'betting on famine: why the world still goes hungry' is one of them. one of his best-known books is 'the swiss, the gold and the dead'.
I hope that the last paragraph was intended to be ironic. I'm so burnt out that it's hard to tell any more.
I'm speaking ironically I guess......for sure I'm not for either option.
But I lived in America while doing my Masters in Literature.....in the late 60's, early 70's....and while there are many wonderful people there........they are mostly ignorant of the 'good works' their military does abroad.........and even in the Viet Nam era.......prone to telling me kaka like: "there was wrong on both sides".
I didnt' have the phrase 'both sidism" to lob at them then..........but at 21 I was gobsmacked by how easily they could march into other people's land....and then chastise the natives for 'not playing fair'.
They are inheritors of a capitalist imperialism that replaced British imperialism. I think the British still feel pretty good about themselves as well......pretty impressed if their monarch says "SORRY" for centuries of IMPERIALIST THEFT. I capitalize that, not to shout at anyone, but to ask that we PAY ATTENTION.
Western powers were seldom the good guys when they marched into other countries.....or sent their secret police like the CIA to stir things up for the benefit of the corporations.
HOW ANYONE CAN JUSTIFY/SUPPORT GLOBAL CAPITALISM ONCE THEY KNOW THE WHOLE STORY HAS TO DEPEND ON RACISM...you know, that old 'white man's burden'?
Trump is just the latest in that bullshit...........I've read about Hugo Chavez. He was a good man and his people knew it. BUT ITS AMERICA'S OIL, DON'T THEY KNOW???
Canada has TAR....bitumen also. So for sure, one way out of America's present dilemma, is more wars abroad....and we've tied ourselves so closely to them, Trump believes he might engineer a PEACEFUL TAKEOVER. I suspect Carney fears that is entirely possible so is trying to prevent it by APPEASEMENT.
Look at the present budget......it's trying to do what the Americans demand of us. Period. And sorry for the long exposition...
"The Treasury Department has released draft designs for a commemorative one dollar coin — featuring Trump’s face on both sides"
Heads I win, tales you lose?
Everything ugly.....everywhere ugly. And for the kids in the street, they get to just be happy if they can acquire a couple of the coins....who's mug is on it won't matter.
Two-faced. Sounds right.
that was short lived for those NOTES needed as a RESERVE
They became normalized
O tempora , O mores.
Opera buffa e la vita assurda sono i retaggi non solo di Trump, ma anche d'un paese che non sa niente della giustizia.
Assolutamente. The history of the country is filled with injustice. Trump supporters think he is for the common man because he said he is. They are desperate for someone high up to care about them and despite all the evidence to the contrary, cling to this belief.
On the other hand - Democratic supporters think their party is for the common man because they said so. Lying to us works both ways.
I totally agree. The two parties are supported by the same moneyed interests and the government does not represent its citizens.
In America, nessuno si sveglia.
Penso che altri sono .....Not everyone is asleep.
Well, apparently, you and I aren't, but by my standards of truly awakening, it would require some genuine education -- or re-education, such as Zinn's history (among other sources) as required reading and substitution for the crap they teach in HS. A genuine understanding of the roots that have led this society to the illnesses from which it suffers is necessary I think. Perhaps I've lived too long and am too demanding of my fellow citizens.
Howard Zinn's book has been banned in many libraries.
Really? Where? I bought a copy for a friend just 2 months ago.
Yes, we definitely are a very small minority. I also have delved into the history deeply and am not surprised by how things are at this time.
It is a (federal) state that has tried MANDATE its way to political ends
The founders new enough about this, IMHO, to try to produce a limited government/state
But even that required believing in necessary evils which many libertarians reject
Thus is a good time to remember the words of Stanley Millgram, he of the famous cruelty experiments:
“We like to think that we’re above this kind of behavior, but I assure you that I could staff a Concentration Camp from any small town in America.”
I really appreciated this reference to all of the President’s many enablers:
“Institutions, from the press to the universities, kneel down before the idiocy of El Presidente. Legislatures are obsequious echo chambers for El Presidente’s whims and self-delusions. It is a world of magical realism, where fantasy replaces reality, mythology replaces history, the immoral is moral, tyranny is democracy and lies are true.”
The support of complicit business leaders, universities, and law firms has been critical to cementing the president’s arbitrary power.
All of them have ultimately subverted their own independence, reducing themselves to tools of a tyrant’s frail ego. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-fragile-tough-guy?triedRedirect=true
Sounds like a lot of people are really scared down there.
I agree with you, Chris Hedges, that the Katie Johnson case presents an especially damning example of Trump's apparent reoccurring child rape syndrome. I cover it in detail in the outcome of my investigation cited below.
Katie Johnson is not the only example of Trump's rape sprees involving girls, boys and women. There is much on the topic on the open internet outside the boundaries of the"Epstein Files." The largest part of the "Epstein files" should be the documentation that still has not coalesced into tangible form. The missing part of the files so far are those that should be devoted to the many criminal prosecution that have yet to take place. What is the role of Benjamin Netanyahu in negotiating the blackmail with Trump and others who have clearly been subjected to the Epstein/Maxwwell/Wexner/Dershowitz operation.
https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/epstein-mossads-blackmail-mastermind
Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are certainly not the only predators in this matter which should be still is still in its investigation infancy. I big starting point yet to be properly addressed in the actual investigation is how Jeffrey Epstein actually died in prison. As has been widely reported, Jeffrey's brother says he cannot rule out the possibility that Trump is behind the killing. It definitely was not suicide as has been reported by the those no doubt implicated in the one of the most high-profile criminal cover ups in US history. The pathetic Cash Patel has made a real fool of himself on this topic. See
https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/trump-and-epstein-as-pedo-brothers
Thank you, Anthony, for those interesting links
I thought when I started to write the essay I that I basically understood the main outlines of what I wanted to say. Then when I starting to jot it down I'd check this and that, with the result that I kept falling into rabbit hole after rabbit hole. I discovered an amazing and startling vista of US presidential history that continues by and large to remain well covered up. So far I'm still waiting for some engaging correspondence with a conscientious reader.
comparing the u.s. to banana republics is an insult to banana republics. that said there are some inaccuracies in this essay. first trump never suggested injecting bleach to cure COVID.https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-inject-bleach-covid-19/. second he did not say Tylenol causes autism. he said there might be a link between pregnant women taking Tylenol and autism. he did suggest using ultraviolet light to kill the stars 2 virus which it actually does but he suggested it for hard surfaces. many people used ultraviolet to disinfect counters, packages, etc. as for the court cases against Brennan and Bolton , they richly deserve to be dragged into court. there is more than enough to label trump a wannabe dictator w/o stretching the facts.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” --Karl Rove to journalist Ron Suskind, 2004
When the Ds went neolib, they dumped the New Deal in support of the same econopathy as the Rs. Now globally dominant is the Chicago School of Economics founded by Milton Friedman. Who advised Chile's brutal dictator Pinochet because "democracy interferes with Market efficiency."
Add to that Biden's Dept. of State was run by neocons trained by Dick Cheney. The fantasy of neocons is a U.S. dominated unipolar world enforced by the military. Right wingers are horrified by talk of One World if it's in any way equitable, but fine with this form of empire.
The D party elite says nothing against any of this. Given their economic beliefs, no wonder. There isn't much remaining to trickle up from the rapidly fading middle class or to extract from devastated ecosystems. But there's sure profit in forever wars--at least in the short run. And in the long run, it won't be their problem.
The 20%er upper middle class administrators and professionals whom the D party really represents will be okay no matter what happens. They're the ones who run the business and bureaucracy of dictatorships, too. A modern version of the entitled who serve a king.
The problem I have with these kinds of descriptions is that men are positioned as the norm. Not one of these examples is a woman, and even at their worst autocratic women have not been defined by their sadism or sexual violence. Men are not the norm, they are should not get to own nouns like dictator or autocrat without qualification of their own particular firms defined by the toxicity and violence of patriarchal dominance and control, shielding the most fragile of egos. Please define these toxic patriarchs appropriately. Women are 52% of the population, 0000.nothing percent of the sexually violent, avaricious despots in history. Please stop sweeping the patriarchy under the carpet as if it's a given, or a norm. It's a violent, repressive system that produces violent repressive tyrants, whose worst damage is done to women and girls. They do not represent us, they are not found in our population, it's not good enough to assume this is an unwritten yet understood disclaimer.
The book is in on Trump. The disgusting, criminal vulgarity is sufficiently exposed to enough people to remove him from office. The only way to it is to jail him.
I don't believe we will accept "banana republic" much longer.
I agree, and I hope that, with particular reference to jailing Trump, that you are spot-on. He deserves nothing less than to rot in a jail the rest of his earthly existence
So what’s to be done? I still have hope that the majority of the American people have integrity, and will not stand for this…