Reflections, Observations, and Analyses Pertaining to the Canadian Political Scene
Friday, July 17, 2020
"This Is What National Decline Looks Like"
Take a couple of minutes to watch this searingly accurate assessment and indictment of the United States under Donald Trump. I did not hear a word with which I disagreed:
I found the sign Schmidt mentions but it was chalked on a solitary sandwich board outside some shop.
At some level I'm reluctant to embrace the idea that America is spinning out of control. I was also reluctant to buy comments that Trump will trigger an emergency so that he can derail the November elections. I couldn't quite accept Chris Hedges claim that America had entered a pre-revolutionary state, that it was like a simmering pot of water about to break into a rolling boil.
After watching video of Trump's "little green men" deployed onto the streets of Portland, Oregon, snatching people off sidewalks and driving off with them in unmarked vans, I realized all of these voices could be right.
I suspect that the Portland attack is the handiwork of Trump's in-house white supremacist and personal advisor, Stephen Miller. That incorrigible little bastard is probably conjuring up every possible way for Trump to remain in office even if elections are held and cannot be successfully rigged in November.
America may indeed be at a breaking point. It certainly has unnerved me.
The dystopia that the United States has become would have been envisaged only a few years ago as the basis of a novel, Mound. That it has become reality should be shocking to those who still have the capacity for astonishment.
Let them fall.
ReplyDeleteA President Biden will make no difference to the White House of millionaires.
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It is surely a sign of the times, Trailblazer, that Joe Biden is seen as America's last hope. The poverty of the nation is manifest and deep.
DeleteI also saw the same clip, Lorne. Schmidt knows whereof he speaks.
ReplyDeleteHe offers the kind of criticism that only the most ideologically bent would disagree with, Owen.
DeleteI found the sign Schmidt mentions but it was chalked on a solitary sandwich board outside some shop.
ReplyDeleteAt some level I'm reluctant to embrace the idea that America is spinning out of control. I was also reluctant to buy comments that Trump will trigger an emergency so that he can derail the November elections. I couldn't quite accept Chris Hedges claim that America had entered a pre-revolutionary state, that it was like a simmering pot of water about to break into a rolling boil.
After watching video of Trump's "little green men" deployed onto the streets of Portland, Oregon, snatching people off sidewalks and driving off with them in unmarked vans, I realized all of these voices could be right.
I suspect that the Portland attack is the handiwork of Trump's in-house white supremacist and personal advisor, Stephen Miller. That incorrigible little bastard is probably conjuring up every possible way for Trump to remain in office even if elections are held and cannot be successfully rigged in November.
America may indeed be at a breaking point. It certainly has unnerved me.
The dystopia that the United States has become would have been envisaged only a few years ago as the basis of a novel, Mound. That it has become reality should be shocking to those who still have the capacity for astonishment.
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