| > "America is not this way because Trump is president. Trump is president because America is this way." Trivially true, of course. > Things aren't going to magically improve if the Democrats win the mid-terms or the next election. Also true but far from trivial for the vast majority of the US population. The medias of all sorts fervently maintain the illusion that electing the other party is going to fix the damage done by the current one, ad infinitum. Anyone who dares to challenge the above orthodoxy is quickly canceled/shouted-down/name-called/downvoted/etc into oblivion by bot farms with the latest AI at their disposal. > Her former friends and allies need to take steps to protect themselves. I don't see a big difference in the situation of former friends and allies. More likely than not they'd be sold a veiled version of the same, in other words, they'd follow - under the usual vague slogans which mean different things for their authors and audience. To be precise, if there is a way out of this mess, America and her former friends will have to find it, and walk on it, together. > America is this way and will likely get worse. Only if we keep wasting time in fatalistic contemplation and fruitless hopes of finding hiding places individually. |