These are the times that try men’s souls… Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.~ Thomas Paine, American Crisis, 1776If you’ve watched or attended a town hall meeting recently, you’ve seen unfiltered outrage over Musk and DOGE. Cutting costs to improve government efficiencies is one thing, who...
I am sorry my American friends but it is going to get a lot worse before it returns to the status quo and I doubt that it will even remotely get better ever again. As a nation you have lived off the spoils of victory and sided with despots because you have been happy with the crumbs that rich capitalists throw at you. Only when your conscience got the better of you, have you engaged in altruism and even then it was for the furthering of corporate interests.
You will no longer command the respect of your allies and trust of those that you once claimed to protect. Your friends will now treat you with suspicion and maybe contempt. The oligarchs and religious zealots will eat your organs while you’re distracted by culture wars, racism, fear and entertainment.
Many of you will say “Well, America first!”, without realising that it has been that way for almost a century except it has really been “America’s wealthiest first”. I really feel a great sadness, like losing a parent to dementia in that there are two deaths: one when they are no longer themselves anymore and the other when the vessel fails.
Vale.