America has ended….whatever is to come will not be what it was. If the fascist state now consolidating power falls, then what comes after will be “New America“… if it restores democracy. Accepted. Stage Five complete.
11:38 “He’ll implicitly say they want me to abuse my power, they’ve given me permission to do whatever I want…and I think it’s worth noting, for a whole lot of people, they just wanted him to make groceries cost less.”
13:17 “People who didn’t vote for Trump can get discouraged…and overwhelmed…and tell themselves, people who voted for him voted for everything he stands for, and what follows from that, is a sense of alienation (that) this is not my country, and I don’t understand what’s going on.”
16:03 “He doesn’t want James Mattis’s or Mark Milley’s or John Kelly’s, he wants absolute loyalists, either people who share his ideological world view or out of a sense of ambition or cravenness are willing to do exactly what he says without questioning it.”
And…it continues on with some grim things said. The most optimistic takeaway was- “- tell yourself, no, the voters did not give Donald Trump a mandate to do whatever he wants and carry out all of his policies; that is not what happened in the last election.”
There is some more….and it is important, but I am exhausted.
Ice on the Moon 