It Can Happen Here. (In Fact, It Did.)

Openmind693 · Jan 5, 2017

It seems quite impossible for an intelligent public to elect the likes of Trump. But, our policies made it possible for this insane narcissist to be elected. Read how this occurred. The article is rather long, but well worth the read to understand what kind of political atmosphere created the Trump phenomena.

Post-election, here was the shock for me: it turned out that I, too, was an American exceptionalist. I deeply believed that our country was simply too special for The Donald, and so his victory sent me on an unexpected journey back into the world of my childhood and youth, back into the 1950s and early 1960s when (despite the Soviet Union) the U.S. really did stand alone on the planet in so many ways. Of course, in those years, no one had to say such things. All those greatests, exceptionals, and indispensables were then dispensable and the recent political tic of insisting on them so publicly undoubtedly reflects a defensiveness that’s a sign of something slipping.

Obviously, in those bedrock years of American power and strength and wealth and drive and dynamism (and McCarthyism, and segregation, and racism, and smog, and…), the very years that Donald Trump now yearns to bring back, I took in that feeling of American specialness in ways too deep to grasp. Which was why, decades later, when I least expected it, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it couldn’t happen here. In actuality, the rise to power of Trumpian figures—Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Viktor Orban in Hungary, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, Vladimir Putin in Russia—has been a dime-a-dozen event elsewhere and now looks to be a global trend. It’s just that I associated such rises with unexceptional, largely tinpot countries or ones truly down on their luck.
So it’s taken me a few hard weeks to come to grips with my own exceptionalist soul and face just how Donald Trump could—indeed did—happen here.
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Wu Li Heron · Jan 5, 2017

He missed the whole point that its empire baby, and this train ain't stopping until she derails. We are modern day Rome and all roads lead to Rome with the corruption of our democracy complete, our constitutional rights suspended indefinitely, and the public becoming so inured with politics as usual they are ready to welcome Caesar's army marching right into D.C. just to help keep some of the corruption in check.

The middle class has foolishly sold their birthright to the highest bidder and, like ancient Rome, they are being squeezed harder than ever and still confused about how they have screwed themselves, while the poor they thought they were screwing are merely growing in ranks and now rioting in the streets and sniping cops from rooftops. Still, Rome had the greatest show on earth with their politics getting so outrageous they still make modern Hollywood blush.

I'minmyunderwear · Jan 5, 2017

Openmind693 said:

intelligent public
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