How could a
country whose taste
in media is built
on extreme
heart-warming
sentimentality
finish up with a
nasty arsehole
like Trump?
Tag: Trump
Dress rehearsal
Watching Trump gradually putting together the framework of a Fascist state is like seeing a re-enactment of Hitler putting together the framework of Nazi Germany.
40 winks more
Strange how some event which is a “wake-up call” leaves everyone sleeping just as soundly as ever.
Doesn’t matter who votes, it’s who counts the votes*
Americans, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, believe they have the “world’s greatest democracy” (whatever that means). What is undoubtedly true is that they have the worst electoral process of any western democracy.
* And establishes electoral boundaries, and decides on voter ID, and sets up polling places, and uses electronic voting, and has no control over election funding.
Lament for a lost planet
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa….
Of the people
Every election, everywhere, since politics began, has been invested with a rich mix of hooes and fears. Fears seem to be winning more often, lately.
All together now
All over the world, religion and fascism are, separately or together, driving the people of the world collectively insane.
Probably not
When Rupert Murdoch looks at Donald Trump, and the return of Fascism around the world, and the now irreversible destruction of the planet, is he capable of feeling shame?
Countries with McDonald’s
I had thought the rule was that America simply hated socialist countries and did its best to destroy them in case people elsewhere might discover that there was an economic alternative to American controlled capitalism in their countries. But that doesn’t explain the hatred of people like Trump and Bolton for Iran. So a more general version of nomdeplume’s rule is that America hates all countries that will not accept its economic, social and cultural hegemony. The Roman and British Empires were the same in their day.
Tweedledum and …
Communism and Capitalism are two apparently different mechanisms for ensuring that the same kinds of people gain power in society.
