Here are my simple thoughts on the matter. It is eminently true that all Empires end; it looks as if Trump and his bombastic, belligerent, polarizing and erratic ways will be the catalyst for America to not only end its global hegemony, but to also become a nation with limited influence, limited alliances, limited power--isolated and alone. Not something that most Americans will find comforting.
But this is the road that the U.S. is taking, a rocky one. America, under the Trump Administration, is making enemies around the world, including among us Canadians. We always thought the U.S. was a staunch and loyal ally. No longer. His childish taunts and his economic tarriffs of vengeance have told us in no uncertain terms that this is no longer true.
Canada will not only survive; we are uniting as a nation, from coast to coast and will become stronger and more cohesive as a people and nation.
As for the U.S., Pres. Trump seems to have a knack for turning people against him and the nation that he represents. So much so that in a few years, the international community of nations will regard America the same way it now views Israel. A pariah state.
The good thing about Trump is that he states the obvious corruption.
Clinton, Bush, Obummer, and Biden pretended like they were following the rules. Obviously, like Trump, they were dictators.
We never had a democracy.
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
~ Emma Goldman
The Constitution was so lacking that they had to AMEND it with the bill of rights, because people were protesting the lack of rights in the Constitution!
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is." - Judge Charles Evans Hughes
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
"Society is saved just as often as the circle of its rulers contracts, as a more exclusive interest is maintained against a wider one. Every demand of the simplest bourgeois financial reform, of the most ordinary liberalism, of the most formal republicanism, of the most shallow democracy, is simultaneously castigated as an “attempt on society” and stigmatized as “socialism.” And finally the high priests of “religion and order” themselves are driven with kicks from their Pythian tripods, hauled out of their beds in the darkness of night, put in prison vans, thrown into dungeons or sent into exile; their temple is razed to the ground, their mouths are sealed, their pens broken, their law torn to pieces in the name of religion, of property, of the family, of order. Bourgeois fanatics for order are shot down on their balconies by mobs of drunken soldiers, their domestic sanctuaries profaned, their houses bombarded for amusement – in the name of property, of the family, of religion, and of order. Finally, the scum of bourgeois society forms the holy phalanx of order and the hero Crapulinski [a character from Heine’s poem “The Two Knights,” a dissolute aristocrat.] installs himself in the Tuileries as the “savior of society.” -Karl Marx from THe 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
I, too, go back and forth wondering if Trump is just what the USA needs right now to expose and expunge the dirt or the second coming of Hitler. I am comforted when I think of all the neolibs who are (or should be) shaking in their $1M designer boots, those who sucked at the trough of public money while we barely get by.
Well put, Jeffrey.
Here are my simple thoughts on the matter. It is eminently true that all Empires end; it looks as if Trump and his bombastic, belligerent, polarizing and erratic ways will be the catalyst for America to not only end its global hegemony, but to also become a nation with limited influence, limited alliances, limited power--isolated and alone. Not something that most Americans will find comforting.
But this is the road that the U.S. is taking, a rocky one. America, under the Trump Administration, is making enemies around the world, including among us Canadians. We always thought the U.S. was a staunch and loyal ally. No longer. His childish taunts and his economic tarriffs of vengeance have told us in no uncertain terms that this is no longer true.
Canada will not only survive; we are uniting as a nation, from coast to coast and will become stronger and more cohesive as a people and nation.
As for the U.S., Pres. Trump seems to have a knack for turning people against him and the nation that he represents. So much so that in a few years, the international community of nations will regard America the same way it now views Israel. A pariah state.
Imagine the chaos it would cause across the country if Barack Obama started referring to himself as a king.😂
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Harriet
Thank you for sharing! My wife and I follow, appreciate, and support your work and your husband's.
Thanks. This was a lot of effort to stitch together.
Thanks for taking the time to read and appreciate!
The good thing about Trump is that he states the obvious corruption.
Clinton, Bush, Obummer, and Biden pretended like they were following the rules. Obviously, like Trump, they were dictators.
We never had a democracy.
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
~ Emma Goldman
The Constitution was so lacking that they had to AMEND it with the bill of rights, because people were protesting the lack of rights in the Constitution!
https://www.michaeltsarion.com/constitution-con.html
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is." - Judge Charles Evans Hughes
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
-Frank Zappa
Jeffrey Nall's insights are invaluable. I wish I had time to pursue Substack and participate moew.
"Society is saved just as often as the circle of its rulers contracts, as a more exclusive interest is maintained against a wider one. Every demand of the simplest bourgeois financial reform, of the most ordinary liberalism, of the most formal republicanism, of the most shallow democracy, is simultaneously castigated as an “attempt on society” and stigmatized as “socialism.” And finally the high priests of “religion and order” themselves are driven with kicks from their Pythian tripods, hauled out of their beds in the darkness of night, put in prison vans, thrown into dungeons or sent into exile; their temple is razed to the ground, their mouths are sealed, their pens broken, their law torn to pieces in the name of religion, of property, of the family, of order. Bourgeois fanatics for order are shot down on their balconies by mobs of drunken soldiers, their domestic sanctuaries profaned, their houses bombarded for amusement – in the name of property, of the family, of religion, and of order. Finally, the scum of bourgeois society forms the holy phalanx of order and the hero Crapulinski [a character from Heine’s poem “The Two Knights,” a dissolute aristocrat.] installs himself in the Tuileries as the “savior of society.” -Karl Marx from THe 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
I, too, go back and forth wondering if Trump is just what the USA needs right now to expose and expunge the dirt or the second coming of Hitler. I am comforted when I think of all the neolibs who are (or should be) shaking in their $1M designer boots, those who sucked at the trough of public money while we barely get by.