Ever since November third the American political/media class have been keeping Democrats fixated on Trump's post-election shenanigans with garment-rending urgency, now going so far as to call for yet another oxygen-sucking impeachment as he's on his way out the door while millions of Americans are struggling just to meet their basic needs.
America, reasonably competent when I was a small child, has now become synonomous with Mediocrity - mediocre politicians, mediocre products that wear out quickly (owing to greed and mediocre oversight of corporate malefactors), and mediocre sense of fairness and justice --- masquerading as hyper-fixation on identity. Oh yeah, we're excellent at something: violence. Violence against its own citizens, against countries who don't genuflect to the world's bully, and worst of all, violence toward the biosphere and the planet.
Essentially, the USA is a corporate totalitarian state and a thinly disguised criminal enterprise. And too many of its citizens mature into a narcisisitic indifference to all of it. This, in turn, says a whole lot about the effect of the social milieu (money uber alles) on the development of an ethics of self-aggrandizement rather than one of collaboration. The out-of-control worship of celebrity is an apropos symptom. I haven't felt OK about my country since I was a very naive 16, a quite long time ago.
I don't think the population of the UK where I live have much greater an interest in world affairs, no matter how responsible we are for them. Ask most people about Yemen and they'll not know where it is, nor that there has been a vicious war waged by Saudi Arabia with the help of the Royal Air Force since 2015, nor that the UK has been supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia to use against Yemeni people, nor that we manufacture those weapons in England and Scotland.
I became aware of the external and internal atrocities of my own government in my American government class, when I was 15 years old, in 1970. Since then I’ve watched the destruction of Democracy and the US Constitution continue unabated while the oligarchs continued their quest to run amok at everyone’s expense. I joined some anti-war and global heating movements in that time but it didn’t stop them from their destructive ways. I was nieve to think the Democrats would save the day so I supported the Green Party in the 2000’s. Unfortunately, the majority of my friends and family weren’t interested, along with the rest of the country. They were too brainwashed by the bought and owned MSM. Sure we had our small protest marches but those became farther and fewer between. It wasn’t until I met my current husband in 2014, who had lived throughout Latin America from 1970-1990 that it was past time to leave the US, instead of going down with the sinking ship. We now live in Chile, where Neoliberalism was born, no thanks to the American governments supported coup. But the difference here is that people take to the streets to force change, and it works. We are rewriting our Constitution next year. Not like Americans who sit and complain about how bad things are within their country, while they watch their favorite Netflix show, under a pandemic completely manipulated by their own government to keep them further oppressed and asleep. I’d like to think the mass majority will finally awaken and realize that their government continues to screw them and the rest of us in the world. Even when I try and talk about the world order they don’t say a word. I’ve pretty well lost hope at this point that they ever will wake up enough to wrestle the country away from their Oligarchs and evangelical crazies, in my lifetime. We just don’t have much time left before global heating, nuclear war or any other life-ending event occurs. But who knows, maybe the aliens who supposedly have been warning us for decades that if we don’t change our ways, we won’t survive will help us to live the lives we were meant to live; in peace and harmony with nature and one other. Good luck to us all.
America, reasonably competent when I was a small child, has now become synonomous with Mediocrity - mediocre politicians, mediocre products that wear out quickly (owing to greed and mediocre oversight of corporate malefactors), and mediocre sense of fairness and justice --- masquerading as hyper-fixation on identity. Oh yeah, we're excellent at something: violence. Violence against its own citizens, against countries who don't genuflect to the world's bully, and worst of all, violence toward the biosphere and the planet.
Essentially, the USA is a corporate totalitarian state and a thinly disguised criminal enterprise. And too many of its citizens mature into a narcisisitic indifference to all of it. This, in turn, says a whole lot about the effect of the social milieu (money uber alles) on the development of an ethics of self-aggrandizement rather than one of collaboration. The out-of-control worship of celebrity is an apropos symptom. I haven't felt OK about my country since I was a very naive 16, a quite long time ago.
I don't think the population of the UK where I live have much greater an interest in world affairs, no matter how responsible we are for them. Ask most people about Yemen and they'll not know where it is, nor that there has been a vicious war waged by Saudi Arabia with the help of the Royal Air Force since 2015, nor that the UK has been supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia to use against Yemeni people, nor that we manufacture those weapons in England and Scotland.
Another outstanding article. Thank you.
I became aware of the external and internal atrocities of my own government in my American government class, when I was 15 years old, in 1970. Since then I’ve watched the destruction of Democracy and the US Constitution continue unabated while the oligarchs continued their quest to run amok at everyone’s expense. I joined some anti-war and global heating movements in that time but it didn’t stop them from their destructive ways. I was nieve to think the Democrats would save the day so I supported the Green Party in the 2000’s. Unfortunately, the majority of my friends and family weren’t interested, along with the rest of the country. They were too brainwashed by the bought and owned MSM. Sure we had our small protest marches but those became farther and fewer between. It wasn’t until I met my current husband in 2014, who had lived throughout Latin America from 1970-1990 that it was past time to leave the US, instead of going down with the sinking ship. We now live in Chile, where Neoliberalism was born, no thanks to the American governments supported coup. But the difference here is that people take to the streets to force change, and it works. We are rewriting our Constitution next year. Not like Americans who sit and complain about how bad things are within their country, while they watch their favorite Netflix show, under a pandemic completely manipulated by their own government to keep them further oppressed and asleep. I’d like to think the mass majority will finally awaken and realize that their government continues to screw them and the rest of us in the world. Even when I try and talk about the world order they don’t say a word. I’ve pretty well lost hope at this point that they ever will wake up enough to wrestle the country away from their Oligarchs and evangelical crazies, in my lifetime. We just don’t have much time left before global heating, nuclear war or any other life-ending event occurs. But who knows, maybe the aliens who supposedly have been warning us for decades that if we don’t change our ways, we won’t survive will help us to live the lives we were meant to live; in peace and harmony with nature and one other. Good luck to us all.