War, Decline, Dysfunction - And Ridicule - At Home
Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg
Morning all. While he may be away today the damage he is doing to the country remains. Our economy has slowed, inflation is rising, the deficit is exploding, the farm economy is under siege, the tax burden is being shifted from the wealthy to the working and middle classes, and our health care system and public health are under an extraordinary assault. We’ve alienated governments throughout the world, walked away from treaties and our allies, and his vaporization of USAID is projected to kill fifteen million of the poorest people on Earth, including five million children - leaving America less safe and more alone in the world than we have been in generations. He has descended deeper into a traitorous and profoundly un-American authoritarianism, trampling our rights and liberties, throwing innocent people into foreign gulags, building a domestic political police loyal to him and sending the military to our streets, lawlessly dismantling our government, using the government to crack down on his political opposition, and enriching himself and his family in an orgy of public corruption. “More for me, less for all of you” has replaced Make America Great Again as the catch phrase of this new Trump era.
Yes, we should be grateful that there is a cease-fire in Gaza and the hostages are coming home. Let us hope that there is now a better path for all of the people of the Middle East, so badly governed for so long, so starved of rights and dignity. But let us not, not for one moment, call what is happening there “peace.” For as Martin Luther King Jr. once told us:
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
As we often discuss you never know in a political fight when a dam will break, a powerful meme will arise, or a new leader will emerge. You just never know. So you just have to keep your head down and keep fighting.
In the past few weeks something new, unexpected, and important has happened in our movement - mockery and ridicule has emerged as a powerful tool against Trump’s escalating authoritarianism.
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