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but only 8 years after the disastrous chimpy regime ended, the 'Murican people let another puke get within stealing distance of the White House.
chimpy: ignored warnings about Bin Laden, lied nation into war, fiddled while NO drowned, tried to privatize Social Security, exploded the debt and deficit, enacted more stupid tax cuts, crashed the economy...just a disastrous presidency, and yet look what happened a mere 8 years later.
If a man is hungry and you tell him moldy bread is better than no bread, he'll close his eyes and convince himself it's steak. When this is over there will be a lot of hungry people out there, ready to be convinced the morsels they are being handed are a steak dinner.
Two things we can be certain about:
(1) The coronavirus is an enemy that will never be defeated. It's better than even the Soviet Union in that regard. The Cold War was a never-ending bonanza for defense related industries. When it unexpectly ended the Repugs and their corporate masters no longer had an enemy they could use to achieve their goal, which was to transfer as much taxpayer money into their pockets as possible. They floundered around for several years until 9-11 provided them with an enemy they could latch onto to get the money train back on track. By defining the enemy as "the war on terror" (which is a form of warfare, not a human enemy who when defeated can surrender his sword to the victor) they opened up a valve to a plethora of ways to fleece the taxpayers, because who would question anything that could be used against terror? BTW, like Fat Donnie, Dubya announced, "I didn't want to be a wartime president..." He realy did, however, because long before he moved into the WH Dubya wrote (or had ghost-written) that all the great presidents were wartime presidents. The one thing he wanted to do was be a great president, thereby eclipsing his brother Jeb in his father's eyes.
(2) The Republicans/conservatives/corporations/wealthy will use this event as a foundation on which to build an entirely new American society, one that makes fascism look like child's play. No regulations, no environmental considerations, a division of the population into "citizens" and "non-citizens," with even naturalized citizens being uncertain of their status (this is a Stephen Miller wet deam). No corporate taxes. No taxes on the wealthy. A completely business-oriented judiciary (which Trump has made great progress toward achieving, even going so far as appointing a person the ABA considers "unqualified" to the powerful D.C. Court of Appeals in the middle of the pandemic). Elimination of all New Deal, Great Society and civil rights achievements, thereby killing any hope for a better world. A restructuring of the social order of American society, with rich white males at the top, as God intended. Those will be their goals; we must fight with all our being:
"Never let a good crisis go to waste," the saying goes. Trump is the best/worst man to be president at this time of crisis, depending on how you view the function of government and society as a whole.
No matter how it turns out, our country will be changed forever by this event. And you can be sure that Fat Donnie and those whose acceptance he craves will come out on the other side substantially better off than when the pandemic began.
KY.............
aka "trickle/down" "Reaganomics"
Methinks Keynesian economics will be back in vogue.
In any event, there will be changes not seen since 1933, when FDR took office.
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