The GOP often has a saying that they repeat over. Strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times. Hard times create strong men. Conservatives love to use this phrase as a cudgel for the left, claiming that people today are so weak and blah blah blah, you wouldnt be able to storm the beaches of normandy, blah blah blah. Back in my day we walked 3 miles in the snow to school, blah blah blah.
Well...looking at America today, I have to say, the phrase is right. However, the people who always go on about this are the weak men creating the hard times. 80 years ago, we won World War II. We had the so called greatest generation. The generation that lived through the great depression. The generation that stormed normandy. The generation that built America's empire. I was watching several commentators today, and a lot of them are now saying the American century is over, and there's no coming back from this. In a sense, this decline was not inevitable. While, in the long term, I guess it was, it seems to be happening prematurely because the current administration is so inept and so incompetent, as it did not learn from history, and is doomed to repeat it.
The people who could have told us trump's tariffs were a bad idea are now dead. The ones who could've told us that the america first whackos are basically nazis are now dead. The people who could have told us that isolationism and appeasement are bad strategies are now dead. I've said it before, political realignments happen every 40ish years and are a result of life cycles. In a sense, we're 80 years out from WWII and as such, a full 80 year lifespan away from it. And the people who lived through it are dead and dying, and the generations after mostly dominate everything. Those generations are the ones who are now in charge. And they're the weak men creating the hard times. In a sense, it's the boomers. Trump is a boomer. Chuck schumer is a boomer. Nancy pelosi a silent. THey're trying to replace the boomers with gen x and millennials with the same exact views, and it aint working. And our current political climate is creating hard times.
The fact is, we're not learning from history. We're repeating it. Even worse, it's like no one even cares. Americans are so ignorant of things its ridiculous. I aint saying i dont have blind spots either too. But yeah. We're just sleepwalking ourselves into fascism, into a second great depression, into the decline of america on the world stage. And half the country doesnt care and is cheering it on. The other side is horrified but is unable to do anything about it. TO be fair, the time to do something would've been 2024. Hell, let's go back further, 2016 too. The root causes were there. We abandoned the new deal ideals that made our society prosperous and shared that prosperity down the income distribution, and decades of short term greed let to a decline in our living standards, with our political system refusing to bend in a way that would have allowed us to avoid this. So now we are feeling more..."revolutionary" and voting in people like trump to "burn it all down", and he's "burning it down" all right. And where is it getting us? Nowhere.
Honestly, sometimes this country feels screwed. Like, we're bringing all of this on ourselves, our political system is broken, our economic system is broken. We only allow the corporate approved options and now we're finding out as our corporate approved option is destroying the world economy and our relationships with the rest of the world. idiots, do we not realize that we need these things to prosper ourselves? I kinda understand, things arent great, we've needed a paradigm shift for a while. But THIS?! This aint it.
I really hope the dems can come back in 2028, learn from their mistakes and win, but if I had to guess, they won't. They'll find some way to F it up, they always do. Even though this should be a lay up for the democratic party. *sigh*...
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