Armstronglivs wrote:
In the 1930's the term was coined for what happened in the rise of the fascist states as a "collective psychosis". It easily applies the Trump culture in the US today. Americans don't see it - not the right - because they are afflicted by it. But the rest of the world does.
Yes absolutely true. It wasn't until 2016 when Trump and his cult took over that Americans could start to understand what happened in Europe 80 years ago. Now we understand that there is a certain type of human, widespread throughout the population, that wants nothing more than to be told what to think and do, wants a fellow citizen to hate and blame for all their own problems in life and to be told it is okay to persecute them and take away their rights in order to feel better, and if a politician does these things then those types of people will slobber all over themselves to worship that person and excuse every evil thing he does.
That's where America insanely and sadly finds itself again, for the second time. We all thought after january 2021 America had emerged limping but still alive after a dark period in American history, but we plunge back into the darkness now.
Corruption and criminality in govt is going to skyrocket again, led by Trump and his cronies. International politics is going to suffer again with Trump's utter lack of understanding America's foreign policy interests and his ability to blunder his way through even the easiest situations. Expect a staunchly pro-Russia and pro-genocide American govt to start under Trump. Tariffs and the other mad ideas of Trump on the economy are gonna raise the cost on everything all over again.
America is going to stop making progress toward the future as Trump will cut off future focused technologies like green energy, as the nations interests turn firmly towards backwards looking rather than future looking. Violence and division in society is going to skyrocket again Trump supporters once again feel their violence and hatred and bigotry vindicated and Trump will tell them everyday it is okay to persecute people and hate their fellow Americans who simply want to live their lives in peace and freedom. Expect fiscal policy to get worse again as inflation rises and tax cuts increase deficits. Expect daily insults and attacks on Americans and American companies and Trump's political adversaries and America's international allies, just as we saw in his first term.
Expect endless and constant corruption, outlandish lies, pettiness, weekly scandals, constant tantrum throwing and acting like a child and blaming others for all his own mistakes, all hallmarks of a Trump presidency. Expect Trump to once again ignore the constitution consistently and ignore checks and balances in govt and Republicans to allow him to never be held accountable. And expect a whole new spate of crimes Trump will commit to add to his heinous crimes against America from his first presidency.
Also fully expect, in whatever maimed state the country find itself in by 2028, for Trump to have the justice department open up sham criminal investigations into whoever runs as the Democrat next election. 2028 US election is gonna look a lot more like elections in Russia and other countries where they simply imprison the political opponents. Though I don't think even Trump and all his corruption and the corrupted court system will actually be able to put the Democrat in prison, they are gonna do everything they can to politically weaponize the justice system against Democrats out of Trump's crazy grievance that the nation actually rather tepidly tried to hold him account for his actual crimes.
By the time Trump is through, we may not recognize the nation. It's getting hard to recognize the nation already after the past few decades of Republicans corruption, and the recent years of m@ga cu1t darkness and Trump/Repub corruption of the courts and congress and the govt in general. Dark times indeed ahead. Pray we still have some semblance of a free nation in four years and that we still have a functioning democracy then. In Trump's first presidency we saw how weak America's system is when one side just completely abandons any pretense of respecting it. This second time expect Trump and Repubs to be even less concerned with respecting any notion of Americans constitution and government rules. We're likely witness the gradual fall of America with this corruption. Really sad humans are so quick to give away their power when someone tells them its okay to hate people and to not think for yourself.