BU BÖLÜM HAKKINDA
A Shitshow Every Day
The shitshow I awake to every day happens outside of the US, but only sometimes. The three-ring circus shitshow happens right here daily in “the land of the brave and the home of the free.” I don’t feel particularly free anymore, but I haven’t felt that way since the slide to the far right that began with Ronald Reagan, The Great Communicator, and moved through to the US dictator Trump.
Trump in all his right-wing glory entertains sometimes. Such an entertainment came yesterday when he said he was the only moral force. He said it differently, but his self-described moral center, is sort of like a fictional scenario, analogous to, Adolph Hitler being invited to a bar or bat mitzvah.
Trump has the so-called moral compass of a poisonous snake, with apologies to the latter because genetics sets that species on a specific trajectory. However, even a snake would not have allegedly raped a woman in a high-end retail store in Manhattan.
Yesterday, Renée Good was shot and killed by ICE agents in Minnesota, and lawless Trump immediately began spreading lies about the murder and limiting the investigation of that murder. This sounds like Trump’s “some very good people” bleat about Charlottesville, Virginia where Heather Heyer was run over and killed by yet another right-wing zealot.
I learned how far to the right the US had lurched during military training during the Vietnam era. Trump factors into that war, too, so people don’t have to jump to Venezuela, or Gaza, or Ukraine to figure out where the world stands today on the cusp of great disaster. But, and this is important, I left the Vietnam era with a sense of idealism, that things could and would get better.
I don’t think that this is a failed species, but there are many ruthless and violent creeps in power in many nations who are indeed ruthless creeps!
The road to this creepiness was aided, or paved, by Clinton in the former Yugoslavia and through banking deregulation, Obama with his bailout and failed troop surge in Afghanistan, and well, Biden’s ineptitude and championing of the Israeli wars in Gaza and elsewhere. A person does not need Dante Alighieri to know in which direction all of this is going.
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