Good article at The New York Times and there are lots of really good Comments, so click that button at bottom to read those.
This link expires in 14 days, so Mar. 19, 2025:
“Shock and awe” didn’t end well in Iraq and it won’t end well in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
Great opinion piece, check it out, and the comments.
Here is a very exceptional comment with a very inciteful perspective on what's going on right now in America. The oligarchs (yes, we are in a full blown oligarchy right now), have a very different view of things than 99.9+% of Americans.
Bruce Rozenblit
Kansas City, MO
March 5
When you are fabulously wealthy as is Trump, Musk, and many Trump appointees, you can live anywhere you want. You can do anything you want. You can get the best medical care anywhere. You don't need the government for anything. In fact, the government becomes an impediment to your freedom and just gets in the way. How dare the government take any of your earnings. After all, by virtue of your wealth, you are the real expert and know more about the world than those pesky bureaucrats and tax collectors who are paid from your earnings.
But when you work for wages, you are middle class or lower, you can't do those things for yourself. You need the government to protect you from time to time and provide a safety net if things go seriously wrong like recession, or serious illness, or storms.
This is why Trump and company wants to tear everything down. The government just gets in his way. It always has. It investigates him and prevents him from doing what he wants. To him, that's tyranny.
But to the rest of us, that's fairness, that's the rule of law. We see hundreds of thousands of people who have no connections, no generational wealth get ahead in the world and make substantial contributions to society through the government. Trump calls that DEI. We call it equal opportunity.
What is left after that opportunity is removed? Shock and awe and the rubble left in its wake.
12 Replies 1767 Recommended