Chosun Juan
Given to Fly
Ed o.....Such is the nature of vicious, hateful politics in the Unites States .....
It is neither left or right, black nor white, that is the real issue - but the 'establishment' / 'system' .... I thought the hippie folk were meant to have kicked it's *rs* back in the 60's! :-O :hippy:
DJT or "Dumbo" to some (more progressive, open-minded types?! may indeed have vicious and racist views - but he also fully realizes that the swamp never got drained (and neither did the even nastier Russian and Chinese ones), and that problems are never just caused by one side - groups, partys, or even countries - in relation to that, I was encouraged to hear him say, "What do you think? Our country's so innocent?" https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www...down/asked-putin-trump-says-u-s-isnt-innocent
The under fire 'establishment' (just look at how those remarks were reported) tried to paint it as Putin worship, but of course by then, Trump would have been briefed on the darker underbelly of the US Government - all of which thrived unfettered - even under Obama .... :cat:
*The financial, privacy, and rights, black hole on earth that is the NSA
*The arms sales to State Terrorists - just look at the recent Saudi led blockade of Qatar, and the war waged on Yemen
(To say nothing of a litany of fiscal and humanitarian misadventures caused by US backing of terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc)
*The unruly rise of the drones and AI warfare
*And among many more, the modern day slavery (for all colours) through debt.
Could we have had a better, more altruistic man (or woman - but not Hilary! to lead us out of the swamp? Sure! Of course! But perhaps the unsavory nature of the man, is more a reflection of the nature of the task.
Your on topic points made on this thread about 'group think' are crystal clear to me, and very straight forward, to the point where I would have to question the motivations (or personality) of anyone using them as a scurrilous plaything ....
Just as group think and lack of critical scrutiny apply to AGW, and funding sources - so too do they to politics (though neither side duking it out here on BF seems to have a full grasp of that - or so it seems from outside the fishbowl . I recently saw a documentary on 'hacktivist' and 'Internet freedom fighter' Aaron Swartz - who supposedly, through a meta-analysis of legal research funding, and congressional legislative pushes, uncovered exactly the same sort of linkages/gravy train/corruptive distortions .....
We lost a good one here .... :gn:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
The path to the promised land may entail the odd wet boot as we wade out of the swamp and through various cess pools along the way ....... [and I do miss the wonderful baritone cadence of Obama's voice (only partially compensated for by Baldwin's hilariously accurate portrayal of Trump's mannerisms ] ..... but really, such a leader will only arise when empowered by the overwhelming weight of goodness within each of us - the kind that sees us all stand together instead of some of the snooty-nosed quasi-intellectual bullying we have witnessed [here] (let alone the other KKK Nazi type downright nastiness) .... TALLY HO !! o
As ever, in eternal optimism o
Chosun :gh:
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