John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY CAITLIN JOHNSTONE IN CONSORTIUM NEWS
“Mainstream Media Is Literally Making People Sick”
“The most obvious and significant culprit in ‘Trump Anxiety Disorder’ is the mass media, which has been fanning the flames of panic”
Trump Derangement Syndrome affects millions.
But Trump’s own actual derangement affects millions more.
You couldn’t come up with a better formula for chaos in government.
No wonder Putin worked so hard to get him elected.
He is a secret weapon.
(Just sarcasm, guys)
As far as changes in America, there simply are not going to be any of the least significance (always excluding major catastrophes such as war and depression) for the foreseeable future.
It’s a bleak outlook, and I fully expect things to become worse in the near future. The establishment has no impulse for change, and it is really on a roll, a big ugly roll, quite full of itself. Hard to see what would stop the momentum.
Articles which contain sentences such as, “If the Democrats would only…” or “When the Democrats…” just serve the cause, keeping a sense of hope or expectation going, keeping a sense of there really being a kind of democracy in America.
But there is not. The basic political system is designed that way, and I don’t see that changing any time soon.
Again, I think I stated it fairly well here:
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/john-chuckman-comment-how-american-politics-really-work-why-there-are-terrible-candidates-and-constant-wars-and-peoples-problems-are-ignored-why-heroes-like-julian-assange-are-persecuted-and-r/
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Response to a comment about how awful Trump is:
Yes, he is, but, sadly, he does represent a very substantial portion of American attitudes and opinions.
If you stop and look really hard at what America has been doing in the world for years, you will see that Trump is not something from another planet.
He’s a very recognizable part, a big part, of what America is.
