Trump’s rise is a function of white America’s anxieties about maintaining power in a cosmopolitan and diverse world combined with a white billionaire’s far right Ayn Rand agenda.
Nothing the GOP does can be understood without acknowledging the Republican Party’s far right embrace of white supremacy, married to hatred for our federal government and all regulations from consumer safety to maintaining our national parks. The GOP revolution against orderly good stewardship of the Earth and our people’s welfare, has been decades in the making. Trump is simply the next iteration in the mainstreaming of overt white supremacy wedded to libertarian greed as the only consistent bedrock GOP “value.”
Changes to Medicaid and to bank rules and to environmental protections are the work of Trump appointees carrying out the long term agenda of GOP billionaires far more ideological than Trump, such as the Koch brothers the Mercer family. They want to roll back the social safety net and protection of the environment, consumers and individuals. They are white oligarchs hanging grimly onto power.
No outside force will save America from Trump’s growing malignant greed-driven racist darkness. We, the American people, must find a way to save ourselves. If you are not personally involved (volunteering, registering people to vote, donating to Democratic candidates) in the fight to restore sanity in the November 2018 election- you’re effectively on Trump’s and the billionaire oligarchs’ side.
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According to historian / philosopher John Lukacs ;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lukacs
.. American conservatism and the GOP in general have devolved into a self serving entity mistaking blatant nationalism for patriotism .
And Trump … rather than being the cause or the catalyst .. is but one symptom of this long festering disease ravaging the GOP along with its christofacist sidekicks /cheerleaders
And granted .. the DNC having devolved into outright NeoLiberalism are not without their faults as well … but in comparison to their GOP turned neo-fascist counterparts ?
….suffice it to say the DNC are saints in comparison … and if not saints … at the very least the lesser of two evils … which are the ONLY two choices we have at present .
Trump and co are intent on trashing the planet. There is hope in the young, however. Globally.
>> I sat through another Zayed Future Energy Prize awards ceremony yesterday, and it again moved me to tears. <<
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/16/inspiration-off-chain/
Trouble is John … from what I’m seeing so far at street level is … that the young today don’t have it in them to do what it takes to enact real change …. deluding themselves into thinking that social media , hiding behind screens and ceremony can ever take the place of throwing it all on the line by Taking It To the Streets … which it cannot !
But to end on a positive in regards to the environment .. a majority of coastal States .. including Red Coastal States are coming to the forefront against the Off Shore Drilling initiative instated by Herr Drumpf and Big Oil … and damn … they’re winning
Why ? Cause those States now recognize they stand to lose more than they’ll gain financially …
Ahhh … the power of the almighty dollar in the ( not so ) good ole US of A … you can either use it for good … or for our own self destruction … but the fact is … it aint never gonna go away .. so best learn how to use it for the greater good … rather than deluding ourselves into thinking there is any other option
Thanks John for posting yet another link to highly inspiring content. I especially loved the dance performance.
THE Political speech of the year … bar none … including those by Frank etc … by a Republican no less
( the complete transcription of Senator Jeff Flake’s speech today before the senate floor announcing his retirement while severely rebuking … and blaming … Trump )
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/politics/jeff-flake-speech/index.html
Damn … though remote at best … maybe there is some small semblance of hope that enough in the GOP will chose to be Patriots … rather than POTUS quislings and party sycophants … hmmm ….