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Gloria J. Maloney's avatar

As US citizens become more concerned with their immediate survival concerns of food, shelter, and healthcare as the GOP tanks the economy, they will become less concerned with world affairs and more likely to agree with Trump that we should abandon NATO. FDR had a difficult time getting assistance to Europe against Hitler, likely due to the Great Depression, people's preoccupation with providing for their families, and their reluctance to fight another world war.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

I peronally think our top priority NOW is national security.

Biden is still president and has the capacity to mitigate the threat or even cut it off.

Once Trump is inaugurated, we are lost, and we will be reduced to guerrilla type actions because if Trump becomes the unitary executive due to an emergency, he will be a totalitarian dictator.

Some of us have had counterinsurgency training. and lived the experience of war. The model is China -- where the public is exposed to "1984" in their daily lives. Gulags for heretics. Use of mind altering drugs for political purposes -

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William Farrar's avatar

I agree Daniel, alas their are many surrender monkeys, who go into a dead faint when they hear nuclear, or war.

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Mike Monett's avatar

Gloria, Yes some of it will be "concern with their immediate survival concerns of food, shelter, and healthcare as the GOP tanks the economy".

But some of it will also be willful distraction, using entertainment as a diversion, and tuning out. We have to inform our friends, families, and neighbors those behaviors are cowardice.

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