The 'lure' of no-taxes for the wealthy, is alluring for the owners of the traditional news media. It seems they don't realize a Trrr--ugh! Presidency will soon be grifting the corporations out of MORE money. It's shocking to me how Corporations cave to fascism, and also that our education did not prepare the citizens for this scourge that has long been dogging the world.
I’m old enough to have had these required subjects to graduate from high school: Civics & Contemporary American History. That was 1970.
Bring them back….along with a class on critical thinking.
It’s shocking to see where we are right now. I knew we were in trouble when Newt Gingrich became Speaker but never imagined our democracy would be hanging on a thread.
(For some reason I can’t get the like button to work, so I thought I’d reply instead)!
I'm glad you did respond. My like button works just fine. I graduated from high school way back in 1962 when they actually taught Civics and even Latin. That was in Maine, when the state was still a Republican state. But those Republicans were real ones, not anything like what those that call themselves "Republican" today. "All the world's a stage..."
When I first saw THE GODFATHER back in 1972, I was shocked that the nation took this organized crime family to their hearts, because it exhibited "family values" - the Corleones were enterprising, loyal to each other, and loved their children. Yes, but they stole, murdered, and eventually if reluctantly sold addictive drugs to those unfortunate enough to lack their own strong family values. Of course, Hollywood had always celebrated criminals as mavericks who shook up a corrupt legal system, but eventually they paid the price for doing so. Now it was okay to get rich through criminality, if only you did it under the direction of a wise patriarch. And eventually you know one of the Corleones was going to sit in the Senate - after all, a couple of Kennedys did it - and even become president. Something like this happened in 2016, when a New York gangster became president.
The affinity between Trump and those who run America's corporations is insufficiently remarked upon in our nation's media, nor is the comfort those corporations find in the economic agenda of fascism. Individual executives may love our vaunted freedoms, but the institutions themselves yearn for the control of their workers, and the compatibility of the private and public sectors that a dictatorship masquerading as a republic brings. Actually, the ancient Roman republic did not end with Julius Caesar. It persisted well into the long rule of Augustus Caesar, who continued to maintain the fiction that it was the Roman Senate who wielded power, and he was but one among many senators. But he controlled the vast armies that were necessary to rule Rome's far-flung empire, and protect it from its enemies. So fascism if it comes to the U.S. will continue to proclaim that it's a democratic republic - or is that what's already happened? If so, crime pays - big time!
The media makes more money covering the chaos of trump and his cult. They would love to have him back in office. “(Follow the money)”
I don’t get how they don’t understand that they do this at their own peril.
The 'lure' of no-taxes for the wealthy, is alluring for the owners of the traditional news media. It seems they don't realize a Trrr--ugh! Presidency will soon be grifting the corporations out of MORE money. It's shocking to me how Corporations cave to fascism, and also that our education did not prepare the citizens for this scourge that has long been dogging the world.
I’m old enough to have had these required subjects to graduate from high school: Civics & Contemporary American History. That was 1970.
Bring them back….along with a class on critical thinking.
It’s shocking to see where we are right now. I knew we were in trouble when Newt Gingrich became Speaker but never imagined our democracy would be hanging on a thread.
(For some reason I can’t get the like button to work, so I thought I’d reply instead)!
I'm glad you did respond. My like button works just fine. I graduated from high school way back in 1962 when they actually taught Civics and even Latin. That was in Maine, when the state was still a Republican state. But those Republicans were real ones, not anything like what those that call themselves "Republican" today. "All the world's a stage..."
Since my button still doesn’t work….like!
Thank You. Latin!!! I think we all long for the GOP of “back then.”
I like this less-travelled comment section! Heather is the historian of record for our current "interesting times" politics.
When I first saw THE GODFATHER back in 1972, I was shocked that the nation took this organized crime family to their hearts, because it exhibited "family values" - the Corleones were enterprising, loyal to each other, and loved their children. Yes, but they stole, murdered, and eventually if reluctantly sold addictive drugs to those unfortunate enough to lack their own strong family values. Of course, Hollywood had always celebrated criminals as mavericks who shook up a corrupt legal system, but eventually they paid the price for doing so. Now it was okay to get rich through criminality, if only you did it under the direction of a wise patriarch. And eventually you know one of the Corleones was going to sit in the Senate - after all, a couple of Kennedys did it - and even become president. Something like this happened in 2016, when a New York gangster became president.
The affinity between Trump and those who run America's corporations is insufficiently remarked upon in our nation's media, nor is the comfort those corporations find in the economic agenda of fascism. Individual executives may love our vaunted freedoms, but the institutions themselves yearn for the control of their workers, and the compatibility of the private and public sectors that a dictatorship masquerading as a republic brings. Actually, the ancient Roman republic did not end with Julius Caesar. It persisted well into the long rule of Augustus Caesar, who continued to maintain the fiction that it was the Roman Senate who wielded power, and he was but one among many senators. But he controlled the vast armies that were necessary to rule Rome's far-flung empire, and protect it from its enemies. So fascism if it comes to the U.S. will continue to proclaim that it's a democratic republic - or is that what's already happened? If so, crime pays - big time!
Very nice to hear you read (at least I think it’s you) the post as an adjunct. Thank you.