Great discussion! The degree of corruption in and around the Trump regime is beyond anything we’ve seen in my lifetime of 75 years so far. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the consequences for all of America prove to be worse and more prolonged than we can know at present.
Using “corruption” as a conversation starter could be a good opening. It depersonalizes our present state of politics to something we have successfully overcome in our history. Greed has a personal moral meaning while corruption is an action that is subject to change.
When public opinion is STRONG, Trump knows he has to back down. It's time to call Congress (202 224 3121) and the White House (202 456 1414) about ICE reform. The next 10 days are critical. Read about the 10 Democratic proposals to curb ICE.
Disgusting how indifference has permeated this country. Look, listen! This is urgent. A fake president criminal is shouting every day about past, present and future crimes WITH GLEE. Sexual crimes, fraud, lying, grifting, traitorous. HE is an abomination. THIS IS NOT THE USA. His supporters, all of them, are COMPLICIT.
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hanna Arendt explains that the goal is such massive corruption that no systems are ready to deal with it......we need to ramp up now to be ready when accountability becomes possible!!
Excellent conversation. This is as you point out corruption on a scale, no one has ever seen in the modern era in the United States. The problem is they are flooding the zone. One day it’s the airplane, the next day it’s crypto, the next day it’s renaming buildings, the next day it’s yelling at our NATO allies.
We all get the picture. But we need to make all these corrupt people pause and think about the consequences, and I believe there will be consequences.
The key is for all our great reporters, like you to take one subject, and pound away at it every day. Just that one subject. So the NWT takes crypto, the WSJ takes interior and selling off all of our land and minerals, the WP takes Trump and tariffs, the Boston Globe takes all the detention centers around the country that no one knows about.
HCR takes the horror of the Supreme Court. You get where I’m going.
When we jump every 12 hours to new corruption, or Epstein it overwhelms all of us just as Trump wants. But if each major media outlet concentrates on some massive corruption or distortion of the constitution and keeps pounding away, I believe people we’ll start to say “ what the hell is going on here? This is gonna end up affecting me. He might start taking my money (well he already is).”
And when the American people see issues, that way they will vote with a vengeance. I truly believe it.
The media has to flood, but in detail, the administrations corruption, and frankly the complicity of senators, congressman, and agencies.
Read any good book on the revolutionary war. The media e.g. gazettes defined the UK as a problem on a number of different issues. “Taxes are taking away your freedom. British soldiers sleeping in your house without permission are taking away your freedom. The Kings ministers telling us we cannot move west into new land is taking away our freedom.”
And on and on. Pretty soon the colonial population got the idea. And there was a revolt.
When a strong light is shined individually on all the graft and corruption of this administration the American people will flood their zone and elect new people to take care of it. If that does not work, there will be a tipping point, which we have already seen, where regular citizens will begin to use violence against members of the government, they perceive to be injuring them in someway.
This would be a disaster for all concerned but all you have to do is read literature about the American Revolution or the Civil War and understand that this administration has set up circumstances where at some point aggrieved citizens will understand they are being stolen from and then we will all have a significant problem.
Great discussion! The degree of corruption in and around the Trump regime is beyond anything we’ve seen in my lifetime of 75 years so far. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the consequences for all of America prove to be worse and more prolonged than we can know at present.
Using “corruption” as a conversation starter could be a good opening. It depersonalizes our present state of politics to something we have successfully overcome in our history. Greed has a personal moral meaning while corruption is an action that is subject to change.
Hope you decide to write that letter.
When public opinion is STRONG, Trump knows he has to back down. It's time to call Congress (202 224 3121) and the White House (202 456 1414) about ICE reform. The next 10 days are critical. Read about the 10 Democratic proposals to curb ICE.
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/the-most-important-thing-you-can
Disgusting how indifference has permeated this country. Look, listen! This is urgent. A fake president criminal is shouting every day about past, present and future crimes WITH GLEE. Sexual crimes, fraud, lying, grifting, traitorous. HE is an abomination. THIS IS NOT THE USA. His supporters, all of them, are COMPLICIT.
Saray Chayes - On Corruption in America should be required reading
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hanna Arendt explains that the goal is such massive corruption that no systems are ready to deal with it......we need to ramp up now to be ready when accountability becomes possible!!
Boston
Excellent conversation. This is as you point out corruption on a scale, no one has ever seen in the modern era in the United States. The problem is they are flooding the zone. One day it’s the airplane, the next day it’s crypto, the next day it’s renaming buildings, the next day it’s yelling at our NATO allies.
We all get the picture. But we need to make all these corrupt people pause and think about the consequences, and I believe there will be consequences.
The key is for all our great reporters, like you to take one subject, and pound away at it every day. Just that one subject. So the NWT takes crypto, the WSJ takes interior and selling off all of our land and minerals, the WP takes Trump and tariffs, the Boston Globe takes all the detention centers around the country that no one knows about.
HCR takes the horror of the Supreme Court. You get where I’m going.
When we jump every 12 hours to new corruption, or Epstein it overwhelms all of us just as Trump wants. But if each major media outlet concentrates on some massive corruption or distortion of the constitution and keeps pounding away, I believe people we’ll start to say “ what the hell is going on here? This is gonna end up affecting me. He might start taking my money (well he already is).”
And when the American people see issues, that way they will vote with a vengeance. I truly believe it.
The media has to flood, but in detail, the administrations corruption, and frankly the complicity of senators, congressman, and agencies.
Read any good book on the revolutionary war. The media e.g. gazettes defined the UK as a problem on a number of different issues. “Taxes are taking away your freedom. British soldiers sleeping in your house without permission are taking away your freedom. The Kings ministers telling us we cannot move west into new land is taking away our freedom.”
And on and on. Pretty soon the colonial population got the idea. And there was a revolt.
When a strong light is shined individually on all the graft and corruption of this administration the American people will flood their zone and elect new people to take care of it. If that does not work, there will be a tipping point, which we have already seen, where regular citizens will begin to use violence against members of the government, they perceive to be injuring them in someway.
This would be a disaster for all concerned but all you have to do is read literature about the American Revolution or the Civil War and understand that this administration has set up circumstances where at some point aggrieved citizens will understand they are being stolen from and then we will all have a significant problem.
Thank you.
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