Maybe off topic… but I’m curious how the average American thinks about what is happening. For me it’s like watching a scifi movie on Netflix. It all seems so unreal and I’m having a hard time believing that it is. I think Trump has done a lot of damage in world politics that even if there would be a new president tomorrow, it will take decades to refund trust.
I’m not trying to humiliate Americans only my dislike of Trump and co.
No, it's exactly like watching what would have seemed to be a preposterous sci-fi 1970's thriller dystopia leading to the breakup of the USA, nuclear holocaust (when the separated states go to war with each other)...and the end of much of the population of North America. With (obviously) a global cascade of effects.
The current 'plan' also seems to be to further destabilize Europe between Russia and the USA. Like calls to like, and the would-be emperor-technicians will ally with like-minded rulers: the Sauds, the Russians, and other autocratic-ruled states. Unless Western Europe is able to truly cohere and protect themselves militarily, because it likely will come to that. Not from the U.S. (not directly, anyway, though I imagine with complicit encouragement), but from Russia.
These people plan to deprive most citizens of rights (the Republicans have outright said in the past week that the Constitution is 'corrupt' and needs to be 'rewritten'; so much for their recent-past pretense of '
originalism' as an excuse to misinterpret and maliciously manipulate the intent and meaning outlined in the foundational document of the United States).
I think most of us can figure out exactly what kind of changes they would like to make. fElon Musk has publicly gone on record for years stating that he believes modern democracies are 'corrupt' and that nation-states should only be governed by a...technophile, wealthy, educated elite (and he's been quite clear on what he thinks that 'elite' should look like and what sex they should be!). Very similar to his grandfather who left Canada in the 1940s to immigrate to the Apartheid state of South Africa - which he called a Utopia. Just consider that reality—he (grandfather Musk) left a working democratic free nation for a nation of separation, repression, and subjugation of 50% of the population, and he thought it was the most wonderful thing on the planet.
Of course, none of us are our families, nor our family histories—not by default.
But fElon seems to have wholeheartedly embraced his racist grandfather's worldview.
Unfortunately, the USA IS corrupt—but it has much more to do with money and the influence of wealth/power on the workings of the nation's judiciary, legislative, and executive branches of government. That is how we are in this situation at all.
Frankly, the coup has been underway for the past 50+ years, since Nixon decided to launch a 'War on Drugs' and specifically target black, and other minorities. It was never about the drugs. It has always been about decimating and controlling the population, especially any kind of reformer or dissenter from central policy.
Just like the push to invade and invalidate all of our personal privacy is not about 'protecting the children' or the idiots. It is about disenfranchising everyone (except for those wealthy enough to buy their way out of surveillance, which they will) and ensuring that the government WILL see and know everything that every citizen does, says, thinks, and
plans to do. Because with AI models and the multitudinous gathering of data which has already happened (to all of us), they will be able to create emotional, intellectual, and psychological profiles of the citizenry (however flawed those will be) and will use them to predict 'criminality.' Which will also serve as a great means (excuse) to target any kind of dissenters.
The current dismantling of all governmental offices, agencies, and bureaus will result in a free-for-none takeover by a criminal cartel similar to that which runs Russia. The sell-off of currently owned state lands, buildings, and other holdings will also be purchased by the same billionaires who have funded our downfall.
For those who've studied the fall of the Western Roman Empire, I'm sure this sounds familiar. That fall was accelerated and accomplished from
within. Greed, self-serving, and short-term personal profits were set above the health and security of the nation, which led to the societal weakness (and despair) that allowed the 'barbarians' to conquer the ailing state. And, just as then, the Christian Church (in Rome) played a large part in the undermining of that society. And
what did survive the fall of the Western Roman Empire? The Church. Whose tentacles spread over and controlled Western Europe (and much of the world) for many centuries. The Church controlled the Kings and Emperors of Europe for over 1,000 years after the fall. It wasn't until the Renaissance that the European powers were able to shake off the yoke of the Church.
Our modern world in the West has drastically shifted power to democratic government, but religious institutions (which are still of massive wealth, power, and influence) continue to manipulate all for what they believe will be an advantageous outcome for themselves. I am doubtful things will turn out so well for them this time.
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