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Michael Beaton
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@gtconway3d 1/ What seems evident to me is that a thin question was investigated. The investigation turned up a number of important tangents, some of which were followed, a few others seem to be in process. But the entire web is far from being fully excavated.
@gtconway3d 2/ I don't expect there is enough verve or will in the polity to do the work necessary to plumb the depths of corruption, venalty, and outright violation that Trump & Company have brought into the center of the WH, and America. I wonder if there is enough will to even look.
@gtconway3d 3/ At that level the citizenry are faced w the harsh & ominous proposition 'America gets the president it deserves'. Trump is both cause and effect. It is more comfortable to point out the "cause" side. Sometime we will have to look at the "effect" side. How did this happen?
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@PIgnoramus @MZHemingway It is precisely this question I am trying to sus out. If you get the tone of my overall postings you'll see I am asking the question,"How did we get here?"; "What is 'here'"? & is there a better place we can actually get to. Not in wan hope, but a pathway from here to there.
@PIgnoramus @MZHemingway Historically there are a few paths available to us. Most of them involve pain and suffering in varying degrees. Some of the degrees are unimaginable. Even those who happen to be aware historically, which are v.few, are stunned into silence on encountering them. I continue to
@PIgnoramus @MZHemingway think, if not simply hope, there is a path of lesser pain & suffering available. If there is it is well entangled w a great thicket of thorns and brambles & growing thicker daily. But still there.
Lincoln called it in his appeal to the "angels of our better nature".
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When the darkness takes on the robes of light and starts to justify murders & destructions in the name of god & the absolute certainty of righteousness, you get terrible nonsense like this. Its not a joke. It is one tendril of our own American Taliban. Fundamentalists...
Fundamentalists no different in kind or spirit from those they claim to hate & declaim as 'the other who must be destroyed'...they are them. When their rage starts to occupy the center of the public square rather than being the fringe side show it is, it insinuates itself into
the society, and soon there is nothing but the power & motivations of righteous purity. We are in the opening manifestations of the contemporary edition of this all too human frailty. The Brownshirts are on the rise. And everything is subject to its passionate fires and flames
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@LaurenWern While this sentiment is provoking - it reveals more than it tells. What we are battling in the nation now is a full on multifrontal #TrumpsWarOnAmerica. The structures, values, pillars, & customs, norms are under attack.
This is a fine synthesis of one of the major battle lines
@LaurenWern 2/ What he is saying, in essence is a) Money is more important than People. But not just money as a function of transactions & means of trade, but money as wealth, as a function of power.
So it is not "Citizens" but a return to old feudal times of the landed nobility& peasents.
@LaurenWern 3/ b) he is making a quintessential value statement at the level of (and in direct contradiction to) "We hold These Truths to be Self Evident".
Its simply a completely different foundational premise upon which to organize society. It is not "new" in the sense that some form of
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