In The Delusions of Crowds, author William Bernstein comments, “The current polarization of American society cannot be fully understood without a working knowledge of the… dispensationalist [End Times] narrative,” which predicts a period of “Tribulation,” the second coming of Christ and the “Rapture” by which righteous Christians ascend to heaven.
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We have just elected a cruel and ruthless monster who represents the worst of humanity and I feel my blood vessels pulsing with rage. I’m boiling with fury at the misguided electorate who were duped into thinking that a billionaire criminal had their interests at heart. Most of them don’t even know what a tariff is (or a fascist).
Donald Trump thinks the world of tariffs. “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,” Trump said in September at a town hall event in Michigan. On another occasion he said “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the English language. Hmm. And he really has had a love affair with tariffs. After all, they mark his entry into national politics. Back in the mid-1980s, his one big gripe was the trade deficit with Japan. Then China became the target, and while president, Trump kept raising tariffs with China in the belief China would bend a knee and surrender. It didn’t, and Biden has been stuck in a tariff war ever since.
Sometimes, the major military powers cope with the explosive global situation by making deals with one another―although such deals rarely create the basis for a peaceful world. For example, the August 23, 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (better known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact) provided for détente between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, two highly-militarized nations that had previously been at odds. In this secret protocol, Hitler and Stalin agreed to share Poland and give Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and other East European territory to the Soviet Union. On September 1, Germany invaded western Poland, thereby beginning World War II. Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union took action to seize its own share of the spoils. As early as July 1940, however, the German High Command began planning its invasion of the Soviet Union, which occurred the following June, ending this cozy arrangement.
After nearly a decade of growling and bombast, Donald Trump rode a patriarcha-saurus back into the White House. Why that dinosaur wasn’t winded, exhausted, and ultimately defeated will be studied by historians for a long time. Even as we nurse our psychic wounds, the responsibility of redoubling our efforts to hasten the end of patriarchy is still on us. Dinosaurs just aren’t that smart.
Over the last few months there have been a number of stories about the sorry state of the Western press, especially in the United States. While Trump’s 2016 campaign was good for large cable news networks and to a lesser extent national periodicals like the New York Times, consolidation driven by profit-seeking had already deeply harmed smaller outlets, from televised local news broadcasts to small market newspapers.
When you’re tricked politically, you think you’re voting for better wages or more money and you end up voting for sorrow, tears, and blood!
When Black voters consider unknown politicians who only interact with us at election time, we need unknown soldiers to protect us from political lies and misdirection.
It was sacred. Secular, yes, but sacred. It is through the ballot, not the bullet, that we choose our leaders. We came so close to losing our right to democratic transitions four years ago; the threat still looms over us today, each side claiming a different concern about the elections and aftermath.
Former Secretary Hillary and VP Harris are exceptional leaders and politicians. Regrettably, a large segment of America’s voters isn’t yet willing to elect a woman as President, especially if she’s a Black woman. Unfortunately, to their chagrin, Rep. Pelosi and Senator Shumar assumed Trump wasn’t electable. Consequently, VP Harris and her Democratic Party suffered a first-degree shellacking.