We are this way because our institutions worked. We assumed that professionals would take care of things. We don’t have terrible diseases because scientists could do their work. People forgot. Sad they have to learn the hard way.
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Americans have bystander syndrome. Most just stand around waiting for someone else to do something. No is coming to save us.
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Once the constitution means nothing, then trying to preserve it means nothing.
Then the revolutionaries can use us oldies in whatever way they need.f
- - are now helplessly calling and faxing Congress, manning voter registration booths, and wondering what else we can DO!?!
He isn’t because at every step institutions failed.
Eventually (being now), that luxury will go away, and people are going to learn the hard way.
down the path of siding with Russia and dictators.
We relied on norms to administer & govern our constitutional democracy.
We discover that norms are not laws & both bend to wealth.
It's totally pointless.
BTW: Both Cruz and Musk also had(have?) Canadian citizenship!
Their propensity for pedophilia, racism, cowardice and xenophobia is no longer hidden and the stench of their cowardice permeates the country
“Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.”
Seems apt for a two-bit casino developer and his billionaire ingrates bent on steamrolling the nation that made them rich.
Everyone knew,no one stopped it.
Au contraire, Barr,McConnell, Deripaska,Leo, Thomas,Cannon,Roberts , Edolf,Thiel,Bezos,... ultimately Putin are allowed
to frolic around US justice & security systems.
Safeguards were put in place they have been systematocally eliminated since the 80s
A small bit of pain (taxes/needles) give a safer future but some want to avoid the little pain without realizing the longer term risks.
https://youtu.be/AEhynzywnPg?si=Vk5suzp9wuYPK3TH
Was it REALLY working? History is contingent, but this didn't happen all at once out of nowhere.
Trump forged an unbreakable bond with the GOP base for a reason. He fired it like a guided missile at the system on J6. And institutions have been crumbling ever since. Why?
too little reading
1933, 1934, 1938 or?
~ Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2.