Orwell warned us, Asimov warned us, Sagan warned us. But we were too stupid and full of self-satisfaction to take heed The US is like the bloated rotting corrupt carcass of its emperor surrounded with sycophants and gold schtick—the picture of Dorian Grey. I must say on the whole the US simply sucks
But the people who voted for trump never read Orwell, Asimov or Sagan. Our education system sucks.
I agree it sucks; especially in the Deep South (Mississippi for instance) and in most rural areas where it’s “open your science textbook to Genesis 1:1.”
Lol, thanks, I needed a laugh. So sad that it's probably true.
Ah, the worthless Humanities….
Certainly looks that way.Someone needs to reach down & find their vagina & start telling the orange fucktard that he's wrong,EVERY TIME HE'S WRONG!Call him out!If you ALL DO IT,ALL MEDIA, he'll be stuffed,he won't get the publicity he craves,but you ALL HAVE TO DO IT EVERY TIME. I like Unicorns too🙄
Since Felon of 34 came along!! A PLAUGE upon the land!!!
I wish you weren’t right.
At least be willing to make a difference!
I will man the battlements if needed
I in some ways, even as a pacifist, I wish I could. The truth is; I am to damn old. So it's protests and phone calls for the old lady!
Thank you for doing what you can Ellen. It is more than what some others are willing to do.
I’m seventy one. I do have a knack for invective though I plan to use liberally till the last gasp
Thanks
trump is not holding up as well as Dorian
True; but he’s led a less virtuous life.
More like virtueless.
a sitting DC Circuit Judge warned me over lunch about 30+ years ago and I did not heed his warning and both of us graduated from a prestigious Engineering school - sorry😇
Tru dat…
So did Atwood.
And as he dies of his big and beautiful disease he’s going to get worse.
the whole US republican led government sucks. There are many concerned and good citizens here who protest, make feelings known, but it seems like much of the democratic leadership never got our of the 1980's. New blood and a bold approach are needed. Take a lesson from Newsome.
Unfortunately, no one told us how to break through generational brainwashing and spiritual abuse. We need a mass deprogramming 💔😡
Thank the oligarch
It certainly does now
The present government, not the people, Sir.
Can we at least include “republicans” with the present government. A majority of them even now “approve” of what Trump is doing.
And those who remain silent are complicit.
And the rest are cowards in their silence! Agreed!
When you let the corporations run the country, this was always going to be the result in some form or another.
Or have Supreme Court judges either so corrupt or obtuse or both that they “divined” money is speech based presumably on their readings of the terms in Samuel Johnson’s “originalist” dictionary, 3rd edition, 1753. By the same token water is dirt, light is dark, and the Supreme Court is wise.
You speak as if it was all of us, it wasn’t . We made enormous strides at times when the world was stagnant. Look around what is happening in America is happening in other places around the world at the same time. It is as Synder talks about rupture and repairit’s sad but that is history and people
Actually I like your ideas. We grew old, stale, complacent and corrupt. The initiative like a bird on the wing only settles in one place or country for long. At this point the US has slid back toward the values of the antebellum South—which never really went away.
Canada,where my Gram is from Is having its moments in some Provinces just as deadly and angering many of my friends there , always look forward sometimes there is a field over flowers on the horizon of shit . One has to be willing to slug though it . I suggest reading Strauss and Howe Generations
I’ll look into it. I just finished Barbara Tuchman’s March of Folly before reading Hofstadter’s Anti-intellectualism in American Life. I might reread the Proud Tower and the Guns of August. The more things change…
Then read their next Book the 4th Turn
It’s hard to speak comprehensively on any subject in only 300 characters without resorting to higher mathematics. I’m sure you’re right however
Right , I am in my 7’s and not one decade of my life has the world not been on fire from Korea to Ukraine and Gaza not one
I’m in my 70s too and agree; and I would add I never saw a war that made the world a better place
We can disagree on that WWII did change the world for better imho Innovation but humans are humans
There is always a lot of innovation thanks to war. It didn’t necessarily change the US for the better; black serviceman just back could still not be seated in restaurants in the South. See the Dave Brubeck interview on Ken Burns’s jazz series.
Aaron Sorkin warned too, on The West Wing, that the US style Executive set-up is incredibly vulnerable.
The German history was warning.
The Guess Who warned us. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqf...
www.highexistence.com/amusing-ours...
I have to agree. Most Dem “leaders” are still willfully blind to what’s really happening. It’s very hard to see any hope.
Chomsky warned us. Zappa warned us. Carlin warned us.
Yup! You realize Americans were not welcome in many countries, they liked your money but not your attitude. I lived in Switzerland for a year when I left Canada, The advice was always wear your Canadian flag pin always!!!!
Funny. I read you talking about Dorian Grey, and the next post was RFK looking like his face was melting off.
ICE gestapo in the streets police HELPING gestapo Texas cops help GOP FKN KIDNAP and hold hostage a female DEM FBI CRIMINALLY ERASING TRUMP FROM EVIDENCE! ARMED National Guard in streets ready to MURDER THEIR OWN COUNTRYMEN!
Speaking of bloated emperors, I Claudius is available at internet archive (but there are some glitches with some episodes) archive.org
The US is like clearing out your home, but throwing away all the good stuff and keeping the crap.
So true…!
Yes, there are so many magical places here, it should be paradise, as it was
Exactly!!
Agreed, but we're fighting.
If I was a salesperson and I wanted people to buy the USA, I'm not sure what my sales pitch would be. Other than "The Purple Mountains Majesty" we don't have much to sell.
I agree; having the national guard wandering purposelessly around Washington helping to write traffic citations (supposedly because of crime), having guys that look like Slim on the old Bazooka Joe bubble gum comics rounding up people for deportation, etc, ain’t likely to bring tourists in horses
I couldn’t have said it better….
It sucks very much.
And I would rather be in Philadelphia!
Those people warned us, but Huxley described us.
Who is "we?" I seem to remember ~75 million voters heeding those warnings. The failure of the democracy rests NOT in those ~75 million, but in the other ~77 million who for one reason or another (typically racism & bigotry) were hell-bent on burning it all down.
Unfortunately “we” is the ones that write the rules.
What rules? Isn't that the problem?
Let's hope it's just Heinlein's Crazy Years and we get over it
STOP THE BLATANT CORRUPTION AND DESTRUCTION OF OUR DEMOCRACY* STOP THE SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION OF THE WORKING CLASS** *VOTE ALL REPUBLICANS OUT ** TAX THE BILLIONAIRES THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER TO DO THIS. IT REQUIRES EDUCATING ONESELF RATHER THAN SWALLOWING PROPAGANDA AND *VOTING ACCORDINGLY*.
The American way is the only way. We are either free Americans or slaves to politics, politicians, & their tools. Free people overthrow tyranny & traitors, while slaves submit to them. There's no in between. Politics means nothing in this country, except our own demise. Revolution is the solution.
