The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions
Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming.
On the eve of the first civil war, the most intelligent, the most informed, the most dedicated people in the United States could not see it coming. Even when Confederate soldiers began their bombardment of Fort Sumter, nobody believed that conflict was inevitable. The north was so unprepared for the war they had no weapons.
In Washington, in the winter of 1861, Henry Adams, the grandson of John Quincy Adams, declared that “not one man in America wanted the civil war or expected or intended it”. South Carolina senator James Chestnut, who did more than most to bring on the advent of the catastrophe, promised to drink all the blood spilled in the entire conflict. The common wisdom at the time was that he would have to drink “not a thimble”
The United States today is, […]
this article has good points but is superficial in that it doesn’t address the problem of corporatacracy(sp?). Until money is removed from politics then nothing will change. It behooves big pharma, big military, big tech etc… to keep all of us at each others throats.
I totally agree with you, Stephan. We Democrats need to get even more power and take over the Senate as well as keep the Representatives we have and even get some better ones in certain cases. We need to hold our Democracy together as a political group that places the people above the corporations and rich people.