Some will be in denial. Peaceful resistance is the hope of a democracy. Can we keep it?
We have sold ourselves to a complacent comfort zone. Some of our leaders are fighting back and citizens are reflecting in a what have I done way.
But our lapse in allowance has permitted enemies into our state systems. Extracting them will take a concerted effort of defiance.
We are a divided country over identity. We have a reality to which we all generally agree, but identity is home.
Lot of damage done.
Consider trump discussing stealing Maduro with oil companies before the Gang of 8.
He obviously, in his inimitable way, came to the conclusion they were good.
The head of ExxonMobil eschewed any ready pumping as did the rest of the bunch without some guarantees.
Trump sold us a bill of goods, once again, many bought.
Where is the clamor over this nonsense in the party in control?
Should we regain control how do we go back to normal? Normal is gone.
We have all become inured to rat tat tat gish gallop.
Does anyone realize that our great hegemonical success has been accomplished with soft power.
Trump is ceding to a concept of hemispheric zones. What? We are heading back to oil when the energy of the future is nuclear and batteries. China is heading into the next century while we are heading to the 19th.
We are going to focus on the Western Hemisphere with a fraction of the world's population for our market because we are the big dog?
We have sold our selves to our comfort zone now controlled by an army of trumpers who are at war with intelligence and are not wilfully going to give up control. And they may have three more years to tear down what mankind has built in the last 250 years of our independence.
We are now in a civil war, not with guns and bullets, but with ideas. How do you get an army with professed anathema to ideas to give up their straight laced ignorance, misogyny, and racism? We tried education but mismanaged that.
Could it be deprivation that makes us all wake up?
Certainly had an impact in the Depression.
Hope I die before the next one.
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