Interesting. my spin is that there is a greater, and a growing, level
of protest.
And this protest is not reserved to just one issue. The signs, to me,
is that the American Empire is following the path of all Empires. As
the Empire spirals downward the Ruling Class is being confronted on
all sides, forcing it to wildly charge its former supporters of
treasonous activities. Donald Trump has conducted an ever more
vicious attack on Journalists and the Media in general. He has
stepped up his attack on Joe Biden and the "Leftist Democrat Party".
He has robbed the National Treasury, giving huge piles of taxpayer's
money to his billionaire supporters. He has fought against creating
work programs such as those created by the Roosevelt administration
during the Great Depression. He has failed the Working Class
Americans by not providing any positive leadership. He has doubled up
in his efforts to trash public education and the Post Office. He has
caused Americans to not trust their own government by trashing high
government officials(many of whom he originally appointed). Through
all of this negativity he is turning a once mighty Empire into
Trash...just as he did with his fabulous Taj Mahal.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/11/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How did Americans become such Wimps? Silence as Trump kills tens of
Thousands, Destroys Social Security and Post Office, Plots Election Fraud
JUAN COLE
08/10/2020
2KSHARES
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Nicole Winfield and Lisa Marie Pane at the
Associated Press write at the unbelief with which Europeans are staring at
the United States, as we head for 300,000 dead from the coronavirus and our
economy shrank 33% on an annualized basis last quarter, and we just appear
to be all right with that.
Not only are we perfectly willing to toss grandma in an early grave on
Trump's say-so, but we are supine as he openly engineers the destruction of
social security and medicare, and of the post office, on behalf of himself
and the billionaire class he represents. That is after we sat by while he
completely gutted all environmental regulations that got in the way of
corporations making money off poisoning us. I don't think the neutering of
the EPA has even been reported on daytime cable news, though the prime time
magazine shows on MSNBC have at least brought it up.
Americans imagine themselves rugged individualists. A cartoonist did a
satire on us showing brawny guys, shirts off, with the logo "Rugged
individualism works best when we obey."
In fact, Americans are masochistic sheeple who let the rich and powerful
walk all over them and thank them for the privilege.
We have become wimps. The word wimp may come from "whimper." It was used in
a newspaper in 1920, and then not again until 1960. Since then it may have
been influenced by the character of "Wimpy" in the Popeye cartoons, who did
not have much gumption. He was only good at mooching off people in search
of
a hamburger.
I always thought Americans were the plucky Popeye, who knew how to get iron
in their diets and show some spunk.
Turns out we have been reduced to begging for our meals.
The rich figured out in the 1980s that Americans are all form over
substance, and if you put up for president a Hollywood actor like Ronald
Reagan who used to play cowboys, they would swoon over him. In 1984 when
Reagan ran against Walter Mondale, I saw a middle aged white Detroit auto
worker interviewed who said he woudn't vote for Mondale because he was a
"panty-waist." Reagan took away their right to strike and took away
government services by running up the deficit and cutting taxes on the rich
simultaneously, then claiming the government couldn't provide the services
the people had paid for because it is broke.
Reagan raised the retirement age from 65 to 67. Why? Most young people
don't
realize that their health will decline in their late 60s and they often
won't actually get any golden years.
What did Americans do in response? They just bent over and took it.
Actually, it is the French who are much more like Americans imagine
themselves to be. President Emmanuel Macron last December tried to raise
the
retirement age from 62 to 64. I can't understand why. France has
persistently high unemployment as it is.
In response, all hell broke loose. Some 30 unions went on strike, and they
supported each other. Trains were interrupted. Trucking was interrupted.
Life was interrupted. A million people came out into the streets. But one
poll had 61% of the French approving of the strikes. They went on for
months, and were very inconvenient.
