It’s All Self-Induced
At left we have the words of American actor, comedian, writer, and talk show announcer Andy Richter. And what he says is 100% true.
The United States has not been invaded by a hostile foreign power.
This is what we voted for, which is why part of me is regarding all this with a certain level of dispassion. We need to accept that we live among a plurality of American voters who demanded the return of Donald Trump to the White House, having had four full years of direct experience with the criminal sociopath.
If we believe in democracy, as many of us do, we need to accept the will of the people.
This reminds of us of what Tom Joad said at the end of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, when someone asked him where he was going:
Of course, this is not going to happen, for dozens of different reasons, but the author of the meme here does make an interesting point.
Here’s just one more example of how far the United States has fallen in the period of less than two months since Trump took office:
According to my observation, the UK has an electorate that is similar to that of the US in many ways, with its wealthy conservatives and its underclass. However, there is a significant difference in that almost everyone in the UK has a minimum standard of grace, class, good humor, charity, and honesty that is absent in many Americans.
Human civilization finds itself at a crossroads, where it needs to choose between things like democracy vs. authoritarianism/fascism, and environmental sustainability vs. eco-collapse.
As shown here, there truly are cultures around the world that are based on care for one another, and for environmental sustainability.
There’s something going around social media that asks, “What does America do better than any other country on Earth?”
The graffiti shown here is in downtown Calgary in western Canada.
It’s impossible to know exactly what chicanery is being inflicted on the common American, though it does seem reasonable that our news cycles are loaded with content whose sole purpose is to distract attention away from the real matters of the day.
