In fact, Hitler could have learned some things from Trump and the Republicans. They are clones who were born at different times, and only their weapons and media are different.
His ICE agents are the Brown Shirts of 1930s Germany. And some ways even worse than them. But the minute he came down that escalator in 2016 and started to run his mouth about the fake news and the people coming from Mexico, I knew we were going in the wrong direction. It's just gotten worse with this second run.
He is emotionally stunted. A selfish, self centered prick. that needs approval and attention, just like his friend Trump.
I got his number when his show came back on the air after COVID. He became vehemently anti vaxx and anti Masking.
His monetary loss was nill because of his contract with the Redstone Family (aka HBO, at the time) but his attention and approval needs were hit hard, with no one to applaud him.
He is also suspiciously obsessed with transwomen, in virtually every show he has some comment to make, he brings on people who have written books and articles, and if a guest wants to make a point, and get on his side, all they need to do is mention transwomen critically.
He obviously never heard of that Stanford Experiment, where they taped electrodes to the genitals of men and showed them pictures of men engaged in activities, when they showed pictures that were homoerotic, the men who declared themselves extremely homophobic were the most aroused.
Then again, he has a girlfriend, Ann Coulter, who has an Adams Apple.
To clench it, the asshole has a BFF, Kid Rock, who even sleeps over at his house.
And Trump invited him for dinner at Mar a Lago, and Bill has been so effusive about how cordial he was., with no self awareness at all. Trump is a conman, and knows how to bamboozle people, one on one.
They made a broadway musical about people like him The Music Man.
Bill Maher is a sham. He is a former commedian who learned that snark sells. He is arrogant enough to think that being contrarian to the beliefs that people hold who watch his show is somehow cool and original. It is not. Maher is a clone of Dennis Miller, I can't watch him any more.
"So, what are Democrats and people of good will to do? I have three suggestions to dial back white male America’s embrace of political and racial violence, and with a sufficiently large electoral majority all three can be pursued simultaneously."
That list needs to be expanded. There should be direct attacks on Fox as purposefully fake and as NOT news but rather vile propaganda, along with other right-wing sources. There should be open hostility toward Republicans who refuse to challenge racism and misogyny and their billionaire enablers. There should be a campaign against superstitious and anti-science, anti-rational religious fanatics who think like ignorant children of a cult and refuse to deal with this life as responsible adults while imagining a glorious eternal afterlife in some imaginary place. And there most definitely must be a complete rejection of authoritarian conditioning and obedience training by state-sponsored authority figures via forced attendance in schools which discourage intellectual growth and development and compel participation in mind-numbing indoctrination and exercises designed to narrow perspectives and vision by substituting Pablum and sanitized standardized common rotten-to-the-core curricula. Democrats and liberal/progressives will either proudly and defiantly own and defend our beliefs and rational cognitive processes, or we will go the way of the dinosaurs.
Remaking public education into a place where children are respected as human beings growing in their own ways and at their own speeds, with creativity, and love, justice and truth.
Women are supposed to be the "fragile" ones, but as usual the burden of keeping things together is on them. Time for equal pay AND equal responsibility.
Ego and a demand for recognition is not a good look for anyone, regardless of gender. My vote is going to go to people who are there for "the people" not for some elevated position that will enable them to steal through insider trading and bribes.
TRump's Republicans just keep doing everything they can to generate more hatred. Friends, neighbors, and family need our love more than ever. See you in the streets.
I was thinking about what Democrats would need to do (it would only be Democrats; Republicans would refuse to collaborate) to restore a powerful democracy. There would have to be a detailed plan--call it Project 2029--to evict corporate influence from government, beginning with setting the table for protracted battles in the courts. That means pouring resources into a reform-minded DOJ and stocking Federal courts with progressive judges.
“Of all 535 members of Congress, who’s taken the most money from associates of Jeffrey Epstein?” the narrator asks in Mr. Brown’s first TV ad, which began airing on Friday.
Whoa, our system will be lucky to get through the upcoming midterm elections, if they even occur...because Trump & Co are not finished throwing obstacles (the latest being taking down of voting rights) in the way of that tenuous event. Then P 2029 would make some sense; of course, we should be thinking about that, and about a shadow government before then.
You got it partially right on this one. But there's much more to the story including the role of American Nazi fascists in everything from Natzi Germany to perpetual wars globally, the assassination of JFK, the purposeful browning of America to create division and hatred and justify national security surveillance agencies and tactics. Please watch this documentay to get the full story.
What do you mean by "the purposeful browning of America to create division"
Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that you are saying that America has been browned (meaning doors opened to immigration from the global south, to create division.
If so then who is behind this purposeful browning.?
Not to mention this: What is wrong with the browning of America? It would sure stop racism if the whole country was brown. I am white, but don't mind the least if my descendants are brown, in fact some are.
Eventually, with enough intermixing, maybe we'll all be the same color, but then those with red bellies, bald, or somehow otherwise different, will suffer the same abuses and discrimination by a few who need to feel superior.
That is true, humans have an evolutionary need to otherize. In a world of brown eyed people the blue eyed will be discriminated against.
People with albinism are hunted and killed for their body parts primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the highest concentration of attacks reported in Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique. Other nations with reported cases include South Africa, Burundi, Kenya, Zambia, Namibia, and Ivory Coast. These attacks are driven by fraudulent witch doctors who claim albino body parts bring wealth and good luck
In China which is suppose to be more advanced, elephants, tigers, rhino's and other species are believed to have aphrodaiac qualities and are being hunted to extinction, that men can get a boner.
Yes, the ingredients for a toxic government include greed, misogyny and racism, all pillars of the current GOP platform— pillars slyly wrapped in the American flag and Jesus (or one version of him). The remaking of the American economic system should begin with the elimination of partisan gerrymandering, campaign finance—all corporate, businesses and anonymous donor money should be prohibited from elections. Next, rewriting the tax code to eliminate tax loopholes benefiting only the wealthy and increasing taxes on them to preRegan levels. Finally, the antitrust laws should be should be applied, especially in the media/information sector.
I think it is fair to question Thom's assertion that masculinity has been reduced by reliance on wives to keep the household together. Doubtless, there are many families living P2P that could not sustain their standard of living without dual incomes. However, based on my own experience, I think that in the majority of cases women are working because they find it gratifying and fulfilling. It feels good not being somebody else's dependent.
Dad was an electrical engineer, and Mom taught school. They married in 1940. Both had BAs. When I popped out in 1947, Mom quit working. Then they adopted my sister in 1949. Mom did not return to work until 1957. She did not return to work because we were going broke, but with us kids in school all day - mom could raise our standard of living. They bought a bigger 3BR house and a 2nd car.
Back in my childhood, the middle class was huge. Half of my friends' moms worked, not because they had to, but because they wanted to. At age 10, I joined the workforce for more toys. I pulled weeds for an old lady up the street. Then, at age 12, I started mowing lawns and shoveling snow for extra cash. At age 16, I got a weekend & summer gig as a busboy so I could own a car. At 21, I got a job as an insurance investigator to pay off my college debt by graduation. I did not need to work. I chose to - just like mom. Most of my pals worked too.
Thus, I think it is reasonable to conclude that the increased presence of women in the workplace was likely not to stave off hunger, but rather because society was changing so that women were no longer "dependents." That notion is validated by the increase in divorce rates. Thus, misogyny was likely more a result of workplace competition with men. Surely, that did humble men who lost out on promotions to women. It was easier to blame their failure to promote on gender or racial favoritism than accept that the sexes were equal. The GOP hate factory surely did find that promoting favoritism helped many white men justify their hatreds by supporting a political view that white men are eugenically superior to all..
As the rate of education of women rises, the birth rate falls. This has been observed in third world and developing countries, and the GDP of the country, and the poverty index rises.
There is a project, started in the Indian subcontinent, called micro loans, small loans given to women to start their own business (something like making or selling their own products)
It has been a resounding success. The truth is give a man a microloan and he will just waste it on sex, alcohol or gambling.
But there is also truth, that because of rising inflation, that really took off with the advent of Credit cards being available to all, it did become necessary to have a a household of two working partners,but that added the expense of day care, clothing cosmetics, transpotation for the wife, which chewed up most of the extra income.
Yet it provided a measure of independence and freedom for the wife, independence and freedom that she would not have had 60 years ago, when father new best, people live in Mayberry and everything was left to Beaver in a wonderful world.
And the reaction to women's independence and self actualization is MAGA , Incels Viagra. and Trump.
I do not put much stock in the data showing that reduced birth rates adversely impact GDP. That is only the case in overpopulated countries like India where survival still hinges on free labor (from one's kids) to nurture the family subsistence farm.
If AI evolves as predicted, we will not need an ever-increasing birth rate. The evolution of AI and emerging technology will offset the need for humans to perform new tasks, just as it did with automobile assembly lines. HG Wells' take is that a high birthrate just turns humans into cattle. Their only contribution to the economy is to provide low-cost nutrition. Of course, that also turns billionaires into cannibalistic Morlocks - a transition already easy to envision. LOL
Running around telling Chicken Little that the AI sky is falling (aka clickbait) is good for advertisers and and Foxy Loxy politicians, as Thom suggested today.
But here is a fact. As AI eliminates jobs, and the jobs will be white collar jobs, this time around, (I know it is eliminating Uber and Lyft, as they became gigs and elminated Taxis,and driverless Waygo's are eliminating gig jobs, There will be a rise in unemployment.
How will these unemployed people earn income to feed themselves, their families, provide a roof over their head, pay cell phone bills, pay for streaming.
How does that help the GDP.
As regards the GDP, every time a case of cancer is diagnosed, the GDP goes up.
Is the GDP really a proper or healthy way to judge and economy. War is great for the GDP, the more ammunition that is expended, the more production is needed to replace the expended material.
Thank you. Your articles always are point on, and offer information on topics that most of us are not aware of. And you offer solutions.
I remember that in summer, 2023, I first learned about Project 2025 from your column and was horrified. It took way too long for the rest of media to talk about it, and I believe that if more people had understood the threat that less people would have voted for trump.
Now I have a question for you... why isn't the press generally ascribing much of what is going on in this administration to Project 2025? Again, journalists don't talk about it. However, we know from those tracking this, that Project 2025 has already been around 50% implemented, and those who do discuss this have noted that these principles, somewhat borrowed from actions of other fascist or authoritarian governments like Orbans or Putin and that this has been implemented in the US must faster than elsewhere. Most journalists report on the horrible things that trump is doing, most of which are related to Project 2025... but they ascribe these just to trump and republicans. I think Americans need to understand this.
Newsflash: humans are much smarter and deeper than dogs, and denying them their birthright is a guaranteed cause of grievance. The perpetrators in media should be punished, while society must be properly nurtured.
Democrats bring a knife to a gun fight. They want to be “fair.” So, when Republicans get in charge, they get most of their agenda. When the Dems get in charge, they move a little of that back. It’s like Republicans move the ball 60 yards. The Dems move it 15 yards. The Republicans move it another 60 yards. Rinse and repeat. Dems must not be content to merely revoke or remedy the changes and damages done by Trump 2.0-they must reverse the changes and damages done by Trump, W Bush and Reagan. Drastically changing the processes, but expecting the same results (an affordable growing middle class) is a sign of insanity. Yet, that is the lie repeated by Republicans. If you want to make America great again, we must return to the policies, tax codes and regulations that made it that way for 40 years, before Reagan, the Republicans and their rich donors and benefactors declared war on the American middle class. We need another FDR and New Deal.
American culture is diseased and has been from the inception. "Christianity" was used to justify genocide, misogyny, slavery. We've had a love affair with violence and guns. We've exported a consumption-based economy that is destroying our planetary life support systems. Patriarchy was built into our foundations. My little brother has said flat out that I benefit from patriarchy -- doesn't really get any more "white guy arrogant" than that. I agree the failure of neoliberal economics is part of it, but only part. Some of this stuff is cultural and psychological.
These are all great solutions to the plethora of problems we face. The problem I see is that the solutions to just about any issue have always been there, mostly simple and straightforward. We knw what the solutions are. But they can never be acted on because the people with the power don't want to fix things. They make immense profits off the misery of common people. A relatively small number of the morbidly rich are raking it in. Disaster capitalism isn't just about cashing in on troubles, it means also causing the very problems that will be the end of us all.
It is so frustrating to read one piece after another describe the results of what's really going on, in discouraging words that normalize the pathology we can name. We are never going to root out the problem is all we can do is describe the symptoms.
It all comes down to bad faith, a result of grievance, the product of neglectful and abusive parenting. People never develop emotional maturity, acting like children and pre-human monsters, infesting the body politic with no guardrails, even hailed as bold and "authentic" in these serious perversions.
We try to construct law to protect one another when what these folks need is serious psychological therapy and sequestration from public interaction until they can reconnect with their god-given holistic bodily intelligence, denied them by poor parenting (namely obedience training, as if children were dogs).
Trump and his regime have normalized violence, claiming it is the prerogative and monopoly of the state.
Now where else in time have we heard the same?
Last Friday Bill Maher expressed outrage that people compare Trump to Hitler, but they wouldn't do that if it weren't so appropriate.
No one compares him to Bugs Bunny, because the comparison would be ridiculous, but the comparison to Hitler is very appropriate thus valid
It is appropriate and necessary to compare Trump to HItler.
In fact, Hitler could have learned some things from Trump and the Republicans. They are clones who were born at different times, and only their weapons and media are different.
Totally agree
His ICE agents are the Brown Shirts of 1930s Germany. And some ways even worse than them. But the minute he came down that escalator in 2016 and started to run his mouth about the fake news and the people coming from Mexico, I knew we were going in the wrong direction. It's just gotten worse with this second run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g73kKLts95U
Bugs cuts the cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K6eYf2rojQ
Bill Maher is a piece of work...people give him way too much attention and applause. I think he is really an egotistical jerk.
He is emotionally stunted. A selfish, self centered prick. that needs approval and attention, just like his friend Trump.
I got his number when his show came back on the air after COVID. He became vehemently anti vaxx and anti Masking.
His monetary loss was nill because of his contract with the Redstone Family (aka HBO, at the time) but his attention and approval needs were hit hard, with no one to applaud him.
He is also suspiciously obsessed with transwomen, in virtually every show he has some comment to make, he brings on people who have written books and articles, and if a guest wants to make a point, and get on his side, all they need to do is mention transwomen critically.
He obviously never heard of that Stanford Experiment, where they taped electrodes to the genitals of men and showed them pictures of men engaged in activities, when they showed pictures that were homoerotic, the men who declared themselves extremely homophobic were the most aroused.
Then again, he has a girlfriend, Ann Coulter, who has an Adams Apple.
To clench it, the asshole has a BFF, Kid Rock, who even sleeps over at his house.
And Trump invited him for dinner at Mar a Lago, and Bill has been so effusive about how cordial he was., with no self awareness at all. Trump is a conman, and knows how to bamboozle people, one on one.
They made a broadway musical about people like him The Music Man.
Thanks. I wasn’t aware of any of that.
Bill Maher is a sham. He is a former commedian who learned that snark sells. He is arrogant enough to think that being contrarian to the beliefs that people hold who watch his show is somehow cool and original. It is not. Maher is a clone of Dennis Miller, I can't watch him any more.
Does Maher’s comment make him safe in t-world or is it where he’s always been?
Bugs bunny…i like it :)
"So, what are Democrats and people of good will to do? I have three suggestions to dial back white male America’s embrace of political and racial violence, and with a sufficiently large electoral majority all three can be pursued simultaneously."
That list needs to be expanded. There should be direct attacks on Fox as purposefully fake and as NOT news but rather vile propaganda, along with other right-wing sources. There should be open hostility toward Republicans who refuse to challenge racism and misogyny and their billionaire enablers. There should be a campaign against superstitious and anti-science, anti-rational religious fanatics who think like ignorant children of a cult and refuse to deal with this life as responsible adults while imagining a glorious eternal afterlife in some imaginary place. And there most definitely must be a complete rejection of authoritarian conditioning and obedience training by state-sponsored authority figures via forced attendance in schools which discourage intellectual growth and development and compel participation in mind-numbing indoctrination and exercises designed to narrow perspectives and vision by substituting Pablum and sanitized standardized common rotten-to-the-core curricula. Democrats and liberal/progressives will either proudly and defiantly own and defend our beliefs and rational cognitive processes, or we will go the way of the dinosaurs.
Remaking public education into a place where children are respected as human beings growing in their own ways and at their own speeds, with creativity, and love, justice and truth.
Women are supposed to be the "fragile" ones, but as usual the burden of keeping things together is on them. Time for equal pay AND equal responsibility.
Ego and a demand for recognition is not a good look for anyone, regardless of gender. My vote is going to go to people who are there for "the people" not for some elevated position that will enable them to steal through insider trading and bribes.
TRump's Republicans just keep doing everything they can to generate more hatred. Friends, neighbors, and family need our love more than ever. See you in the streets.
The fragile women myth, alas too many women buy into it, to gain a manipulative advantage.
The reason women bear children is that no man could withstand the discomfort, inconvience and pain.
In 1962, i got some kind of food poisoning and about every 15 minutes I was wracked with an excruciating pain in my stomach.
I thought that if this what child birth was like, then like the Rabbi's morning prayer, "thank god I wasn't born a woman"
If we have an election, women are a majority.
AI: Recent reports show that women's wealth is growing at nearly double the rate of men's, outpacing them for four consecutive years.
How about demand for respect and equality???
I was thinking about what Democrats would need to do (it would only be Democrats; Republicans would refuse to collaborate) to restore a powerful democracy. There would have to be a detailed plan--call it Project 2029--to evict corporate influence from government, beginning with setting the table for protracted battles in the courts. That means pouring resources into a reform-minded DOJ and stocking Federal courts with progressive judges.
First get control.
Ohio (Sherrod Brown) commercial:
“Of all 535 members of Congress, who’s taken the most money from associates of Jeffrey Epstein?” the narrator asks in Mr. Brown’s first TV ad, which began airing on Friday.
“Jon Husted, that’s who.”
Whoa, our system will be lucky to get through the upcoming midterm elections, if they even occur...because Trump & Co are not finished throwing obstacles (the latest being taking down of voting rights) in the way of that tenuous event. Then P 2029 would make some sense; of course, we should be thinking about that, and about a shadow government before then.
You got it partially right on this one. But there's much more to the story including the role of American Nazi fascists in everything from Natzi Germany to perpetual wars globally, the assassination of JFK, the purposeful browning of America to create division and hatred and justify national security surveillance agencies and tactics. Please watch this documentay to get the full story.
https://youtu.be/niTwvtokYf0?si=grDQ559vT6lJWKHf
What do you mean by "the purposeful browning of America to create division"
Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that you are saying that America has been browned (meaning doors opened to immigration from the global south, to create division.
If so then who is behind this purposeful browning.?
Not to mention this: What is wrong with the browning of America? It would sure stop racism if the whole country was brown. I am white, but don't mind the least if my descendants are brown, in fact some are.
Eventually, with enough intermixing, maybe we'll all be the same color, but then those with red bellies, bald, or somehow otherwise different, will suffer the same abuses and discrimination by a few who need to feel superior.
We will eventually get past that.
That is true, humans have an evolutionary need to otherize. In a world of brown eyed people the blue eyed will be discriminated against.
People with albinism are hunted and killed for their body parts primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the highest concentration of attacks reported in Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique. Other nations with reported cases include South Africa, Burundi, Kenya, Zambia, Namibia, and Ivory Coast. These attacks are driven by fraudulent witch doctors who claim albino body parts bring wealth and good luck
In China which is suppose to be more advanced, elephants, tigers, rhino's and other species are believed to have aphrodaiac qualities and are being hunted to extinction, that men can get a boner.
Yes, the ingredients for a toxic government include greed, misogyny and racism, all pillars of the current GOP platform— pillars slyly wrapped in the American flag and Jesus (or one version of him). The remaking of the American economic system should begin with the elimination of partisan gerrymandering, campaign finance—all corporate, businesses and anonymous donor money should be prohibited from elections. Next, rewriting the tax code to eliminate tax loopholes benefiting only the wealthy and increasing taxes on them to preRegan levels. Finally, the antitrust laws should be should be applied, especially in the media/information sector.
I think it is fair to question Thom's assertion that masculinity has been reduced by reliance on wives to keep the household together. Doubtless, there are many families living P2P that could not sustain their standard of living without dual incomes. However, based on my own experience, I think that in the majority of cases women are working because they find it gratifying and fulfilling. It feels good not being somebody else's dependent.
Dad was an electrical engineer, and Mom taught school. They married in 1940. Both had BAs. When I popped out in 1947, Mom quit working. Then they adopted my sister in 1949. Mom did not return to work until 1957. She did not return to work because we were going broke, but with us kids in school all day - mom could raise our standard of living. They bought a bigger 3BR house and a 2nd car.
Back in my childhood, the middle class was huge. Half of my friends' moms worked, not because they had to, but because they wanted to. At age 10, I joined the workforce for more toys. I pulled weeds for an old lady up the street. Then, at age 12, I started mowing lawns and shoveling snow for extra cash. At age 16, I got a weekend & summer gig as a busboy so I could own a car. At 21, I got a job as an insurance investigator to pay off my college debt by graduation. I did not need to work. I chose to - just like mom. Most of my pals worked too.
Thus, I think it is reasonable to conclude that the increased presence of women in the workplace was likely not to stave off hunger, but rather because society was changing so that women were no longer "dependents." That notion is validated by the increase in divorce rates. Thus, misogyny was likely more a result of workplace competition with men. Surely, that did humble men who lost out on promotions to women. It was easier to blame their failure to promote on gender or racial favoritism than accept that the sexes were equal. The GOP hate factory surely did find that promoting favoritism helped many white men justify their hatreds by supporting a political view that white men are eugenically superior to all..
As the rate of education of women rises, the birth rate falls. This has been observed in third world and developing countries, and the GDP of the country, and the poverty index rises.
There is a project, started in the Indian subcontinent, called micro loans, small loans given to women to start their own business (something like making or selling their own products)
It has been a resounding success. The truth is give a man a microloan and he will just waste it on sex, alcohol or gambling.
But there is also truth, that because of rising inflation, that really took off with the advent of Credit cards being available to all, it did become necessary to have a a household of two working partners,but that added the expense of day care, clothing cosmetics, transpotation for the wife, which chewed up most of the extra income.
Yet it provided a measure of independence and freedom for the wife, independence and freedom that she would not have had 60 years ago, when father new best, people live in Mayberry and everything was left to Beaver in a wonderful world.
And the reaction to women's independence and self actualization is MAGA , Incels Viagra. and Trump.
I do not put much stock in the data showing that reduced birth rates adversely impact GDP. That is only the case in overpopulated countries like India where survival still hinges on free labor (from one's kids) to nurture the family subsistence farm.
If AI evolves as predicted, we will not need an ever-increasing birth rate. The evolution of AI and emerging technology will offset the need for humans to perform new tasks, just as it did with automobile assembly lines. HG Wells' take is that a high birthrate just turns humans into cattle. Their only contribution to the economy is to provide low-cost nutrition. Of course, that also turns billionaires into cannibalistic Morlocks - a transition already easy to envision. LOL
Running around telling Chicken Little that the AI sky is falling (aka clickbait) is good for advertisers and and Foxy Loxy politicians, as Thom suggested today.
But here is a fact. As AI eliminates jobs, and the jobs will be white collar jobs, this time around, (I know it is eliminating Uber and Lyft, as they became gigs and elminated Taxis,and driverless Waygo's are eliminating gig jobs, There will be a rise in unemployment.
How will these unemployed people earn income to feed themselves, their families, provide a roof over their head, pay cell phone bills, pay for streaming.
How does that help the GDP.
As regards the GDP, every time a case of cancer is diagnosed, the GDP goes up.
Is the GDP really a proper or healthy way to judge and economy. War is great for the GDP, the more ammunition that is expended, the more production is needed to replace the expended material.
Plenty of fodder here for campaigning Democrats interested in addressing matters even more noble and compelling than the price of gasoline.
Donald is a cruel, vicious, and sick man-child — demon seed.
He needs help. Not more Adderall.
John Roberts, Alito, Clarabell, the Tom? They're just dime-a-dozen, irrational racists.
The other 3 impostors on the US Supreme Brothel are just whores. Worst kind.
#VOTE . . . #Barron and Eric to the Strait
Thank you. Your articles always are point on, and offer information on topics that most of us are not aware of. And you offer solutions.
I remember that in summer, 2023, I first learned about Project 2025 from your column and was horrified. It took way too long for the rest of media to talk about it, and I believe that if more people had understood the threat that less people would have voted for trump.
Now I have a question for you... why isn't the press generally ascribing much of what is going on in this administration to Project 2025? Again, journalists don't talk about it. However, we know from those tracking this, that Project 2025 has already been around 50% implemented, and those who do discuss this have noted that these principles, somewhat borrowed from actions of other fascist or authoritarian governments like Orbans or Putin and that this has been implemented in the US must faster than elsewhere. Most journalists report on the horrible things that trump is doing, most of which are related to Project 2025... but they ascribe these just to trump and republicans. I think Americans need to understand this.
Newsflash: humans are much smarter and deeper than dogs, and denying them their birthright is a guaranteed cause of grievance. The perpetrators in media should be punished, while society must be properly nurtured.
Democrats bring a knife to a gun fight. They want to be “fair.” So, when Republicans get in charge, they get most of their agenda. When the Dems get in charge, they move a little of that back. It’s like Republicans move the ball 60 yards. The Dems move it 15 yards. The Republicans move it another 60 yards. Rinse and repeat. Dems must not be content to merely revoke or remedy the changes and damages done by Trump 2.0-they must reverse the changes and damages done by Trump, W Bush and Reagan. Drastically changing the processes, but expecting the same results (an affordable growing middle class) is a sign of insanity. Yet, that is the lie repeated by Republicans. If you want to make America great again, we must return to the policies, tax codes and regulations that made it that way for 40 years, before Reagan, the Republicans and their rich donors and benefactors declared war on the American middle class. We need another FDR and New Deal.
American culture is diseased and has been from the inception. "Christianity" was used to justify genocide, misogyny, slavery. We've had a love affair with violence and guns. We've exported a consumption-based economy that is destroying our planetary life support systems. Patriarchy was built into our foundations. My little brother has said flat out that I benefit from patriarchy -- doesn't really get any more "white guy arrogant" than that. I agree the failure of neoliberal economics is part of it, but only part. Some of this stuff is cultural and psychological.
These are all great solutions to the plethora of problems we face. The problem I see is that the solutions to just about any issue have always been there, mostly simple and straightforward. We knw what the solutions are. But they can never be acted on because the people with the power don't want to fix things. They make immense profits off the misery of common people. A relatively small number of the morbidly rich are raking it in. Disaster capitalism isn't just about cashing in on troubles, it means also causing the very problems that will be the end of us all.
It is so frustrating to read one piece after another describe the results of what's really going on, in discouraging words that normalize the pathology we can name. We are never going to root out the problem is all we can do is describe the symptoms.
It all comes down to bad faith, a result of grievance, the product of neglectful and abusive parenting. People never develop emotional maturity, acting like children and pre-human monsters, infesting the body politic with no guardrails, even hailed as bold and "authentic" in these serious perversions.
We try to construct law to protect one another when what these folks need is serious psychological therapy and sequestration from public interaction until they can reconnect with their god-given holistic bodily intelligence, denied them by poor parenting (namely obedience training, as if children were dogs).