Actual Quotes from Trump’s Endorsement of Hydroxychloroquine during COVID-19 Pandemic
This post is a response to a question posed on Quora in its complete format: “Donald Trump desperately wants to be the best president. What would he have had to do differently in his two terms to be considered one of the best presidents the USA has ever had? Is it too late for him to change his ways and be the best president ever?”
That was never possible for him. He would have had to have been a fundamentally different human being for that to be possible.
Donald Trump Interviewed by Charlie Rose in 1992
Donald J. Trump has always been a fundamentally broken human being who has left a wake of collateral damage in his journey through life.
The only way he could have achieved a status as a somewhat mediocre president, rather than a toxic stain on a nation built on freedom from tyrants, would have been by overcoming his horrifically destructive family legacy of corruption.
Friedrich Trump, Fred Trump, Donald Trump
Donald J. Trump’s grandfather, a 16-year-old German barber named Friedrich Drumpf, boarded a ship with a one-way ticket to America to escape compulsory military service. He was among the wave of desirable German immigrants settling in America between 1880 and 1885. He began his new life as a barber, then became a restaurateur, saloonkeeper, hotelier, and gold-rush prospector, eventually becoming a New York real-estate investor.
Friedrich’s fortunes, however, came from his brothel operations. “Friedrich Trump amassed a ‘substantial nest-egg’ from the Yukon hotel before heading to New York.”
Friedrich became wealthy from the exploitation of women through sex for profit.
Friedrich had three children with his Bavarian wife, and their middle child, Fred, was Donald’s father. Fred became a successful businessman who amassed a fortune while many around him slumped into financial ruin.
Friedrich died on the morning of May 30 from pneumonia, and secondarily, nephritis during the period of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, just before his 50th birthday, while his son, Fred and his mother continued Friedrich’s real estate work.
Fred met two Scottish sisters at a party and eventually married the younger, Mary Ann MacLeod, who had lived in poverty her entire life as the daughter of a fisherman.
Fred died in a flu pandemic just before his 50th birthday, while Donald and his mother continued Fred’s real estate work.
(This summary was extracted from a somewhat sanitized article posted on History.com,
The article fails to do more than hint at potentially embarrassing admissions of corrupt behaviour; however, Donald’s father, Fred, made several enemies among New York’s citizens, as Donald has. Woody Guthrie was considered a legendary folk singer who wrote several songs about Fred’s racist housing practices and his endorsements of segregation. Fred was clearly not a “nice man,” and it appears Donald inherited his racist hatreds from his father (just like all racist hatred has survived the generations).
“In December 1950, Woody Guthrie moved to an apartment building in Brooklyn , Beach Haven Apartments. His landlord: Fred Trump, father of Donald Trump, gained millions in federal funds to construct postwar public housing, moving people of colour out of their neighbourhoods, and creating racial codes to keep decent housing out of the hands of persons of colour.”
I suppose Old Man Trump knows Just how much Racial Hate he stirred up In the bloodpot of human hearts When he drawed That color line Here at his Eighteen hundred family project ….
Fred Trump’s racism was an obvious influence on Donald, which explains his actions when posting a full-page editorial in the New York Times endorsing the death penalty for five innocent black men who were eventually exonerated of the rape charges levelled against them.
Given what we know now of Donald Trump’s sexual predation history, this example of over-compensating behaviour makes even more sense today. Donald Trump has since still refused to apologize for this action. Donald Trump does not have a forgiving heart, nor is he capable of assuming ownership of his actions or demonstrating remorse for their consequences.
No one can expect to become an exceptional leader of anything if they cannot rise above the pettiness they have infamously wallowed in throughout their entire life.
For Donald to have achieved a character as a decent human being meant overcoming generational odds against him. To succeed at that would have required high intelligence and immense personal suffering and sacrifice.
Donald J. Trump was, at best, an unremarkable individual, and he allowed the toxicity of his lineage to define his character. Not only was Donald born into a fundamentally corrupt family, but he also leaned into the corruption. He embraced his lineage of hatred, which is the defining characteristic of the most corrupt among us: low intelligence and high cowardice, used to justify corrupt ethics.
Donald J. Trump has lived his entire life as a wailing child angry at a world that cheated him of greatness and has wasted every moment of his life getting revenge on the universe for not being handed the respect that “inferior in his mind” people like Obama seemed to have had given to them on a silver platter.
Trump Stares at Obama
Trump could never achieve the kind of genuine respect that better people freely grant to public figures who deeply inspire us to become better people. He was never going to be anything better than mediocre. Instead, Trump chose the opposite, to become this century’s most destructive force for evil, we could have imagined being saddled with to teach us all some humility.
No matter how far we have gotten as a species, and no matter what it is that we have accomplished while rising above the primitive savagery we tell ourselves that we evolved past, Trump reminds us all that barbarism can easily become our future if we don’t stand against it.
Trump will die as a stain on a nation once considered great and as a cautionary tale for a future that is rapidly transforming into a world that will become either a nightmare for whomever from the billions among us who will survive an impending catastrophe, or will successfully catalyze such a resistance that our progeny can lack back on and feel proud that we, as a people, rose to the occassion and gave our all to fix what is broken and make this a better world for our future as a species on this planet.
Donald J. Trump Memurinal
Since this piece is being published on the last day of an incredibly dysphoric 2025, I want to wish you a festive New Year’s celebration filled with hope for a far better 2026 than many have had to endure.
Thank you for reading this post, and a special thank you to my Quora readers who quickly blew up a shorter version filled with errors to support my efforts with their acknowledgments (and corrections).
This post is a response to a question posed on Quora in its complete format: “Whats is it called when Democrats are saying things just to get something from the other people, Like saying maggots or it’s a cult or playing rubbery glue but they never ever have valid arguments and just defend the wrongness they represent?” Please note the Addendum at the end for an explanation of why I chose to expand its publishing venues beyond its original venue on Quora.
Saying “something to get something from someone else” is pretty broad. In your case, with your question, you at least defined “the other people” as Democrats, which is already a tacit admission of being an ideologue with an “anti-Democrat” bias. It could mean you’re a somewhat moderate Republican, but confidence levels in that conclusion dramatically drop because ideologues are not moderates. It’s extremist thinking, which indicates a high likelihood of being a MAGA Republican or a right-wing extremist who is further right than “staunch Republican.”
Since these categories are not part of popular discourse and are somewhat subjectively supported by my bias, I’ll explain how these work.
From this Canuck’s biased perspective, a “moderate Republican is someone like Hillary Clinton, who has essentially embraced the Neo-Liberal version of Conservativism, which endorses the view that industry is the priority in establishing economic strategy, which then leads to social development.
(To be clear, I’m not “picking on” Hillary; I’m just using her as an example because she and her politics are well known. I would consider both Joe Biden and Barack Obama as milder versions of Neo-Liberal, which is what I facetiously refer to as “Conservativism in drag.” For comparison, I would describe Bernie Sanders as slightly left of center because he also endorses, to some extent, the central role of industry in social development. These are also not entirely “my views,” or views I’ve concocted on my own in a vacuum. These are positions that can be found on the Political Compass website, which is considered an authoritative source for political orientation along a spectrum defined by political science theories developed by Herbert Kitschelt. The website address is: The Political Compass, so that you can see for yourself.
John McCain was someone I would describe as a “staunch Republican” (he was a generally decent human being with a conscience who would have been a better Republican president than every Republican president since Eisenhower). He would have acknowledged the value of human life during his presidency more than any President after Eisenhower. It’s quite possible that he would have implemented Romneycare without it being subjected to perpetual attacks by Republicans over the last few decades, like was the case with Obama (and sadly, because of reasons ALL Americans should be embarrassed by).
I write these provocative words precisely to trigger the MAGAts in the crowd who might read this, including the querent. I also am using this as a setup for identifying what is meant by a right-wing extremist Conservative Republican, or a (fascist) MAGAt. I see no point in delving deeply into defining a MAGAt because this constitutes a group of highly entrenched ideologues who put their tribal identity over and above the peaceful process of social development for what is now ironically named the “United” States OF America. (MAGAts have endlessly blamed their divisiveness on Democrats, and particularly Obama, because they know that national divisiveness is harmful and considered “bad.”)
These are all characteristics of a cult mentality. Here is a comprehensive summary of a cult mentality.
Here are a few articles that elaborate on the AI summary above:
Part of the problem in dealing with the cult mentality is what it implies to those who are cult members. They can instinctively understand that it’s bad, or acknowledge how a cult mentality suggests a loss of agency, and possibly even know how they may have lost touch with their own identity. This last one may be the most difficult to grasp because they still hold a series of memories in which they see themselves at the centre of the images that come to mind when they recall.
Being indoctrinated into a cult mentality is made especially more difficult to break from because their old identity has been reshaped into a new one built around their tribal affiliation. Being surrounded by people who validate one’s feelings is a powerful motivator, like slipping into a warm, welcoming bath. The freedom to “be oneself” or indulge in self-serving views that disparage others is a far easier path than introspection. Instead of being confronted by tears, one is free to indulge in rage-fueled dopamine highs.
The most significant reason for rejecting the notion that one has been indoctrinated into a cult has been permanently stamped onto our collective social consciousness through the extreme consequences of cult behaviour. Cults have been associated with extremist behaviour for good reason, because the most horrifying of human behaviours have been common to cult outcomes.
Charles Manson’s smallish cult of personality resulted in the nation’s most horrifying serial murders to that date. Reverend Jim Jones’ Peoples’ Temple took that cult/horror association to another and more extreme level through the Jonestown Massacre in 1978. The photos from that era are stark and unforgettable. One cannot see these photos and not see a cult as a “bad thing,” no matter how entrenched they may be in their tribal association. No one wants to believe they could be convinced into committing mass murder and suicide on the suggestion of a powerful personality, yet that’s what we have in Donald Trump.
This statement that Donald Trump made on January 23, 2016, should have ended his campaign, as many other egregious behaviours should have long before. Instead, his outrageous behaviours became fuel for motivating his supporters.
Instead of becoming a limit to egregiousness to restrain his future behaviour, it became a bar for a shock jock to surpass, and surpass it he did. His entire political career has been an escalation of atrocious behaviour from scandalous to heinous, as his supporters have taken every grotesque step along with him while cheering his validation of their basest emotions.
Trump has been playing his base like a fiddle, or a puppet master, or a cult leader, and he took that role to an extreme when he set himself up as a fraudulent near-martyr to secure his second term.
It was bad enough that he managed to incite an insurrection by making an obvious accusation of a stolen election. The wholly fraudulent B-grade movie nature of his staged assassination attempt should have ended his political career. Instead, it further cemented the naive loyalty of his base in ways that made their cult nature impossible for the rest of the world to ignore.
As easy as it can be for a psychologically healthy human being to be horrified by the scope of the Jonestown massacre, a total of only 918 people died.
Donald J Trump well exceeded that total during his first term, with 1,228,289 confirmed deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although he cannot be held accountable for all those deaths, a significant proportion of that number was due entirely to his dismissive reaction to the severity of the crisis, and his parasitically opportunistic prioritization of profiting from a catastrophic event over the survival needs of the population.
A report published by The Lancet, a leading medical journal that was founded in England in 1823, determined in an independent study that about 40% of those deaths are directly attributable to Trump’s hostile responses to medical authorities during the crisis. Those deaths of Trump’s first massive death toll, exceeding well over 400,000 victims that would still be alive today, have gone almost entirely ignored by the media and most especially by his base, who essentially believe the pandemic was a hoax, according to his wholly ignorant disregard for human life.
Making matters horrifically worse is that this death toll has been merely the beginning of a final total that is already expected to exceed 14 million when combined with the 600,000 and growing number of deaths of mostly children due to the cancellation of the USAID program. By 2030, Donald J. Trump’s death toll will be in the ballpark of Hitler’s 17 million dead.
His supporters not only ignore the surreal horrors occurring entirely due to his actions, but they also justify it as happening to people who are not “of their tribe.”
As much as they and this querent may wish to dismiss the gravity of a phenomenon that sane people cannot ignore as a cult of personality, that is entirely how history will record this travesty in our period. This is assuming we survive an escalation where we can contain his rampant destruction as he concocts new and creative ways to engage in hostilities through war crimes and interventions into the sovereignty of nations outside U.S. boundaries.
In retrospect, all the signs are impossible to ignore; however, never in my life did I ever consider how the United States would become the enemy of the world’s people. I had always envisioned, even as a child, while considering superstitiously concocted scenarios (cuz I was a naive, ignorant, and easily fooled child given to fantasies such as Nostradamus’ predictions), that the U.S. always wore the white hats and would come to the world’s rescue in any future worldwide aggressions by megalomaniacal dictators.
Never did I imagine, within the worst of scenarios, while practicing our duck and cover drills in school, to protect ourselves from fallout by a potential nuclear holocaust, that the U.S. would be wearing the black hats. This shows me how effective the propaganda has been while we have all been fooled by the oligarchs who have repeatedly pushed humanity to the brink of extinction.
I had always feared the leader of the fascist army. I should instead have been far more concerned about the wholly conditioned footsoldiers who pollute public discourse with toxic and hypocritical presumptions and disingenuous deflections of responsibility for their evil behaviour, such as evidenced by this querent’s expression.
ADDENDUM:
This answer was originally posted to the group “Done With the Bullshit” on Quora. I submitted this answer for approval and went to bed. I discovered, when I awoke this morning, that it had been accepted by the group and made public. I then checked to see if it was posted and found it had been deleted, not by a moderator in the group, but by Quora’s moderation team.
This indicated to me that the original querent reacted strongly enough to my answer to report it on Quora, and Quora’s algorithm responded accordingly, without any human judgment.
I have enjoyed the content on “Done With the Bullshit,” and I have had the good fortune to have a few of my answers reach a broad audience and receive a lot of support through upvotes, comments, and, most of all, fulfilling dialogues that my content has encouraged.
This entire process of social media content production is, after all, a means of encouraging public dialogue on issues that would otherwise go unaddressed, allowing problems to metastasize and grow into malignant forces in society.
The rapidity of the response by “Kyle Jacobs” (likely not this person’s real name) to have this answer removed indicates to me that this has been a very effective answer in addressing a severe condition of widespread dysphoria affecting society.
As you can see, I’ve reposted this answer at the top level of Quora’s question hierarchy, where it will be less visible due to the numerous other answers. There are over 200 answers to this troll question; almost all of them are challenges to the fundamentally flawed character of a question intended more to smear an enemy than to seek knowledge or insight into a subject of interest. Quora is rife with such questions by trolls attempting to shift focus away from their corrupt states of mind and onto their ideological enemies.
The deflection character of the “question,” and the aggressive removal of information deemed offensive to the MAGAt sensibility, is a large part of the reason why the cult mentality is so resistant to the requisite introspection they must all undergo to cure ourselves of this scourge before it escalates to such a degree that we experience catastrophic losses far beyond what we have already been forced to endure as a consequence of this mental health pandemic.
I am encouraged by the efficacy of my answer and will make it available to a broader audience beyond Quora. I will also publish it on several social media platforms through my Medium account and on my WordPress blog at kree8r.com.
I want to thank you, “Kyle Jacobs,” for your swift response, because I would otherwise have likely let this answer languish in relative obscurity, where it would remain just another of my well over 22 thousand answers.
I hope you have an excellent New Year’s celebration, and I hope this is enough encouragement for you and your fellow MAGAts to take to heart just how severe your mental health condition is. Please, for the sake of those you care for in your lives, if such people exist, get some help from a professional because the trajectory you have put us all on may not be recoverable. I doubt many of you wish to be responsible for contributing to the end of human civilization.
Please take some time to consider your loved ones and ask yourself if all the hatred consuming you is worth losing everything.
This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “After seeing what Trump has done in less than a year, what do you expect America to be like after his full 4 years?”
The problem we are overlooking with this question isn’t what America will be like, but what the world will be like.
America is the epicentre of a sociopolitical earthquake that will fundamentally change the global geopolitical landscape forever.
Whether that results in the further democratization of a multipolar world or in the establishment of continental empires is entirely contingent on the degree of public engagement today.
Whether we like it or not, the recent release of the American National Security Strategy , alternatively referred to as a revisionist version of the “Monroe Doctrine,” which they arrogantly and narcissistically refer to as the “Donroe Doctrine,” is a declaration of war. (citations below)
We have been witnessing their strategy play out throughout the last year with antics ranging from a cleansing of bureaucratic staffing throughout the entire government apparatus, to tariff wars, annexation threats, ICE expansion and citizen round-ups to be shipped off to concentration camps, to testing the waters of a Venezuelan aggression through the commission of war crimes to see how far they can push to trigger resistance.
All of it has appeared to be a random series of events intended to sow chaos without a guiding strategy to culminate in the long-term achievement of objectives. It’s been easy to find ourselves misdirected by an imbecile who stares at an eclipse as if immune to blindness or rambles incoherently into fractured thoughts strung together only by the mouth in which a babbling stream of consciousness flows.
It’s not randomly generated chaos, however. It is a carefully orchestrated stream of chaos that Steve Bannon conceived of as a “flood the zone” strategy. The goal is and always has been misdirection because that’s how grifters play their marks, and the marks in this case are not solely the American people, but the entire global network of interconnected enterprises and competing foreign powers.
For an in-depth review of the Trump administration’s plan, Ben Norton from The Geopolitical Economy Report presents a one-hour, chapter-by-chapter interpretation and analysis of the scope and severity of the global upheaval planned in the video linked below. The intention is for the entire globe to be reconfigured into continental trading blocks, with the U.S. at the centre of a global power dynamic following the consolidation of the Americas (North and South) under U.S. control.
(Citations are below for those who may be unfamiliar with Ben Norton’s credentials as an Investigative Journalist. – Transparency on this source is provided for those whose personal political views might be triggered by Ben’s. Whether you align yourself with them or not isn’t relevant to the issue of an objective analysis of his analysis of the gravity of the issues he examines in a globally transformative initiative spearheaded by the Trump administration.)
Like all things Trump, he’s not intelligent enough to have contributed significantly to the goals and strategies outlined in this document, even as he provided little more than his name as a brand for the Project 2025 initiative. Trump’s M.O. has always been to have other people do the groundwork while he brands and sells the product to a gullible public.
Trump is a spokesperson for a movement that has essentially operated outside the spotlight and occasionally lets slip the quiet part of its plans.
You may remember the election campaign when the president of the Heritage Foundation threatened violence if people did not willingly submit to their restructuring of a New World Order conceived of by a White Supremacist ethos.
This is not “political business as usual,” where issues are bandied about like a table tennis match, and points are awarded for each winning strike the opposition fails to return as fans cheer their favourites from the bleachers. Changes or initiatives implemented by opposing parties in the past may have affected people’s lives, but they have never fundamentally transformed civilian life as this current administration seeks to do.
We have been hearing cries that the U.S. is at the precipice of full-blown fascism (and, in the interests of complete transparency, I have also been contributing to that noise), but this is the next stage in a dramatic battle for global control involving machinations in which we, the little people, are pawns in a massive game of power between the few who have no loyalty to any nation and who treat the world like a chessboard, as they position their dynasties for shaping tomorrow’s brave new world order.
We are passively watching the pieces of last century’s attempt at global dominion reassemble like a reborn T-1 Terminator. They have reinvented the Hakenkreuz symbol as a red beanie, and their little people’s army sings “Sieg Heil” in a country twang. Their base of disgruntled citizens, marginalized by society, sincerely view themselves as “patriots” who commit treason against their nation and wage war against their neighbours with righteous indignation.
Since 22 states are already in a recession and recent job reports have been terrible, the odds are excellent that the economy as a whole will be underwater by the midterm election. As much hardship as that will cause, the sad fact is that not enough truly understand what’s at stake. Many are still deluded by the shortsighted, self-serving thinking they’ve been led to believe is a patriotic fight against the evil forces that have been making their lives more difficult by the year.
A recession means they won’t be able to continue lying to themselves about who is genuinely responsible for their hardships. The polls and the recent elections show a distinct swing away from supporting the party of the plutocrats. However, the DNC is still struggling to accept that the opposition has long since lost sight of its responsibility to provide good-faith representation.
People like Chuck Schumer refer to the current situation as a fever he hopes will break, and that’s the thinking that a parent demonstrates when they’re holding out hope that their addicted child will eventually see reason in time to return to sanity. Decades of working with the same people have glossed over his perceptions with unwarranted sentiment. It is an incredibly tone deaf mistake because he’s prioritizing his relationships with his political peers rather than accepting the deadly threat they pose to a nation struggling to survive a dystopic shithole.
Whatever happens between now and the midterms, the public will need to see hope on the horizon as the economy careens headlong toward what could conceivably become a full-on depression. Without that alarm bell ringing loudly in their ears and motivating them to the polls, they may not cleanse the halls of government enough to slow down the strategic assault against the nation, its people, and the rest of the world. At the same time, the increasing consolidation of power among the plutocratic class continues their machinations and maneuvers the country into armed conflict with Venezuela.
An open war seems like a likely strategy to mobilize their base to vote for them, and, depending on how they massage the optics, they may convince a few Democrats to support them enough to hold onto enough seats to continue their agenda.
The DNC must stop resisting public sentiment, and the old guard must step aside to make way for new leadership and convince people that the two parties are not the same. The DNC has done a terrible job on their messaging, and that turns off potential support while convincing people that the entire edifice of government must be torn down. However else Trump may be perceived, he still represents the chaos they innately trust more than a government that has turned its back on them for the last 50 years.
If the DNC loses the support they’re getting now, “for free,” they’ll be stuck with tepid government shutdown strategies that will turn the public further away from a do-nothing administration.
They still don’t understand the hardships people are enduring. People like Schumer and the “old guard” are living in a disconnected reality, like it’s 1983.
The people are angry, and they have to feel that anger themselves if they want to leverage it for change.
If the DNC succeeds in winning back enough control to turn Trump into a lame duck for the remainder of his term, and even possibly initiate another impeachment process (although after two prior impeachments that accomplished nothing tangible enough to be visible to the public, that could backfire on them). The nation might have some hope of at least mitigating the economic downturn, while the entire country will be in turmoil.
Economic hardship otherwise seems unavoidable, and particularly so when destabilization becomes an international strategy for containing the expansionist MAGAt hunger for dominion.
Making matters worse, the people behind Project 2025 and the “Donroe Doctrine” will continue to push their agenda by ramping up their disinformation campaigns. They’re not going to rest while their crown falls closer within their reach. They will likely do what they can to kneecap the DNC or enough members to hamper efforts to stop them, or at least minimize their investment losses.
Results from the mid-term elections will dramatically affect the trajectory of the remaining half of Trump’s term in office. Even if Trump’s power and influence wane, the architects of Project 2025 and the U.S. National Security Strategy will have contingency plans to sow discord, escalate disinformation, and likely inflame conflicts between nations, thereby furthering their agenda.
For example, I’d been thinking the $80 billion transfer to Argentina was to cover Trump’s escape plan, should things go south and he finds himself facing insurmountable legal battles. That money, however, could also serve as a means by which they can destabilize Venezuela’s politics enough to justify American aggression.
Keep in mind that their endgame is a North and South America economic bloc that they can control.
It seems quite possible that Trump could deliberately sabotage a renegotiation of CUSMA to pressure Canada and Mexico into falling in line. He seems to be taking steps in that direction by imposing punitive tariffs on Canadian potash and proactively minimizing the impact on farmers by handing out money to quell their growing anger and disappointment with the results of his actions so far.
Moving too fast or too hard in that direction, however, risks global retaliation, such as a massive sell-off of U.S. Treasury securities, which could further destabilize the nation and the world. This would be a “nuclear option” to avoid a perceived worse outcome that would further impact global trade and exacerbate a U.S. recession into a worldwide depression, but that’s a nightmare scenario which seems least likely.
At any rate, at the end of Trump’s four-year term, the least dramatic outcome would be for Trump to voluntarily step down (as he should – but won’t without at least hurling a choice collection of his favourite words of petty spite), and the nation is left hobbling through a deep recession that would require both austerity on behalf of the little people will be so enraged by this point that the plutcrats they will demand restitution from will either begrudgingly commit to long resisted initiatives like a universal healthcare option, and quite possibly a minimum guaranteed income.
Whatever else may be the case, if the architects of this madness fail in their quest to reshape the globe into a manifestation of their “Dark Enlightenment agenda,” then the days of the U.S. as a dominant superpower are rapidly ending.
America will be in chaos at the end of Trump’s second and final term, but it will at least represent a state of turmoil with some hope shining through the end of a long and dark tunnel.
Ben Norton is an American investigative journalist, political analyst, and founder of the Geopolitical Economy Report, known for his anti-imperialist reporting on U.S. foreign policy, Latin America (where he lived for years), and China, now based in Beijing, studying at Tsinghua University to blend journalism with academic research on global development and finance. He previously worked for Salon, AlterNet, and The Real News Network, focusing on economic justice and critical media analysis.
America has a humongous chasm dividing the nation. Consequently, their politics and decision-making process are subject to a see-sawing effect.
Whatever decisions a party in power might make, the next election will likely empower the opposition. When that happens within conditions of extreme differences, the next party completely reverses whatever gains one party makes.
America has no consistent long-term development or growth plan.
It is ruled by chaos, making it impossible for any other country to count on stability.
Stability is crucial to any form of success, whether for an individual, a family, a community, an organization, or a nation.
Without stability, there is no predictability, and no way to proceed without constantly reverting to a fight-or-flight disaster planning mode.
It’s impossible to develop, much less maintain confidence in one’s decisions, because circumstances could flip the next day.
It would be like trying to decide which bank would be safest to deal with to protect your savings, and being unsure whether or not they’re going out of business tomorrow.
It would be like going to multiple stores to decide which products you can buy at the best prices while building your list, and then going back to make your purchases, and all the prices doubled between visits.
No one can make any progress in that kind of environment. America has no capacity for long-term planning, while planning for a nation like the U.S. should be at least for 100 years. Meanwhile, Americans can’t even plan every quarter like a business would.
This type of ongoing chaos is the kind of dynamic that is often found in a family that is controlled by a narcissist who constantly keeps people on edge and walking on eggshells to ensure they can be overwhelmed into submission when the head chooses to flex their muscles.
This is precisely the dynamic found within criminal gangs, which are often at odds with each other while engaging in ongoing internal conflicts.
This is precisely the dynamic that Donald Trump has lived with his entire life.
The only way he can find comfort is in the knowledge that he can destroy anyone within his sphere on a whim.
It’s only a matter of time before he begins publicly trash-talking Elon Musk while he secures a relationship with Peter Thiel to pit the two against each other.
His strategy has always been that of a bully. No one wants to deal with a bully unless they can benefit from being subservient to them and are comfortable navigating such chaos while accepting subservience to their abusive mindset.
Such people are all products of a broken home, while we live in a world where one in five people are suffering from a mental health condition, and a whopping majority (70%-80%) of families are dysfunctional.
Anyone with experience in a dysfunctional family understands how the pain that drives all the members apart makes them estranged.
America is the child in the global family who has become an addict, has lost control and threatens international stability.
The world can stay as far away from America’s business as possible while shutting its doors on trade deals until America can come to its senses.
Attempting to work with America today represents a significant risk to the stability of any nation that tries to do business with it.
Donald Trump has a long history of bragging about how he doesn’t keep his promises, so only a gullible fool would trust him with anything of value.
This is why Ukraine shared nothing in advance of their counter-attack on Russian military planes with the U.S., because the nation cannot be trusted.
If that’s happening, you can bet that the rest of the world’s nations have changed their information-sharing policies to regard the U.S. as an enemy, not an ally.
The impact of Trump on America that the MAGA cult cannot see will be felt for at least the rest of this century.
If nothing else, America will emerge from this nightmare, if it survives intact, with a newfound appreciation for the importance of voting in the world’s most extended election cycles.
Right now, it’s only a matter of time before America becomes Greece and the U.S. becomes the world’s beggar looking for a handout to keep its economy from collapsing.
This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Aside from it being a moral duty, why should I contribute to society?”
As a reason to contribute to society, a “moral duty” represents a form of coercion which garners the absolute least that one will contribute. Referring to contributions made to society as a “moral duty” creates the perception that it’s like paying a tax. You do it because you have to.
That’s the best way to get the worst attitudes and the least value in contributions from people.
“Paying it forward” is a far better way to frame contributions to society because it serves as a reminder of how one has benefited from society and the contributions of others as part of a shared community.
Another context that can help to imbue the concept of contributing to society with motivational meaning is as a team. As members of a species, we are all members of the same “team” in the sense of our challenge to maintain survival. This perspective is why I chose the concept of a bucket brigade to illustrate the idea of working together to put out a fire.
Understanding the difference in perspective between one who feels they “should” versus feeling like one “can” will clarify the attitude we should be cultivating in society to encourage contributions back to society. When a person feels like they’re a valued member of a supportive community that enables their members to achieve their best potential, it cultivates an attitude of gratitude that prompts people to think positively of what they can do in return for their community.
Think of it like gift-giving during the holidays, where people go to great lengths to impress someone with a special gift they know will be meaningful to the recipient, versus the sentiment people demonstrate when put in as minimal an effort into their gift as they can get away with to meet an expectation from someone they don’t care about but feel an obligation to gift them something.
To do what one “should do” invites the minimum effort to meet a bar of expectations set by the lowest common denominator and is characterized in the best of terms as an apathetic form of disengagement from one’s community. Why give something to society when you don’t value it?
Conversely, when one feels closely connected to a community that has cultivated gratitude within their mindset, they want to give as much as they can afford to adequately express their appreciation for what they value receiving from their community.
To do what one can, rather than what one must, is to be motivated by a natural desire to contribute out of a spirit of reciprocity.
This is why the social contract is crucial to our health as a society and why community development is an essential mindset for leaders to adopt and cultivate within society. Community members who feel they belong to a larger dynamic and are valued for their contributions are engaged and self-motivated to do what they can to improve life for everyone else.
They understand and value the meaning of the words, “We are all in this together.”
This sentiment is the glue that will keep society from collapsing into chaos during the most troubling times.
This sentiment is the glue that has given humanity the grace to survive and prosper to such a degree that our short presence here will be as lasting into the future as hundreds of millions of years of a planet dominated by dinosaurs has been to date within a fraction of the time they existed.
When one feels connected enough to something, they have no problem going out of their way to contribute as much as they can afford because they believe their giving is its own reward. They derive pleasure and fulfilment from giving to their community. They will go to great lengths to contribute as much as possible to their society because giving transcends moral duty.
Some people will give to causes, for example, because they want receipts to lower their tax burden through the benefit of deductions.
Other people give to cancer research, for example, because they have been personally affected by the issue. Giving as much as they can afford is a way of coping with the issue by acknowledging a loss or a deeply impactful experience. Giving is rewarded by a cultivation of hope within oneself.
Many people volunteer their time in contributions to a cause because of the social connections they create and benefit from on an intangible level. Giving energizes one’s spirit through interpersonal interactions and cultivates the interconnectedness that defines a core need for the human condition.
In all self-motivated cases, one’s contributions are made without considering moral implications because those are justifications which devalue the experience.
In all cases, people give in greater abundance and more honestly of themselves when internally motivated by intangible and intrinsic benefits than by material and extrinsic ones.
Understanding why one would want to contribute to society out of an internally motivated reason is far more crucial to the value of one’s contributions than meeting an arbitrary degree of obligation.
Understanding how one has benefited from the efforts of those who came before us and how we are each linked in a centuries-long chain of humans collectively contributing to an aspirational future for all of humanity is how to convert an obligation into a desire.
When we are disconnected from our humanity and community as humans, we lose sight of the value of our contributions to an evolving whole.
Learning to appreciate our distinctive differences between individuals and celebrating those differences while embracing the uniqueness of their contributions is how we can justify giving the best of what we can to those who will come after us and allow us to be remembered as individuals who each gave our best to make their lives better.
Cultivating this community spirit of belonging is how we survive our challenges, such as those we are struggling through today. Our connection to community allows us to cope with and overcome being inundated by the toxic influences of those who lack appreciation or reverence for the sacred nature of what we collectively benefit from.
Encouraging the creation of connections between us results in a superior form of morality that organically emerges in society to endure throughout our existence on this planet more successfully.
There is no valid reason why you “should” give back to society. However, without a desire to give back to society, you have lost out on one of the most valuable sentiments a human can experience, which is core to our development as healthy humans living fulfilled lives.
Bonus Question: How do you accept the fact that no one loves you?
Learn how much more important it is to love yourself and life than to be loved.
No two people or living creatures love in the same way.
Love is not about receiving but about giving.
If you want to be loved, get yourself a dog and/or a cat, or several.
If you can love what you do each day, it can sustain you enough to allow other forms of love to make their way into your life.
This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Why do liberals feel it’s okay to publicly trash conservatives?”
It’s funny, but the only time I think of myself as a liberal is when an ideologue draws a line in the sand.
Whenever I encounter a nutbar, I think to myself that the idiot I have encountered is a nutbar. I don’t care much about triangulating their ideological affinity. I prefer interacting with people as people and not as idiotologues who are myopically affixed to a flag embedded in quicksand.
Sadly, though, it’s become almost impossible not to assume the nutbars I encounter are ideologically conservative. It has been so consistently this way for so long that I was surprised recently to discover a nutbar group that was ideologically left-wing.
I had to do a double-take because I hadn’t encountered anyone I could remember who had extreme views (from my biased perspective).
If you feel conservatives are unfairly trashed, then you are obliged to speak out against the people who have co-opted the conservative brand. It’s not like the MAGAts among you are the silently incognito types in your group.
You don’t get to complain about liberals mocking conservative stupidity because that’s the only brand of conservative appearing on the horizon.
“All that is required for evil to exist is for good people to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke
If you wish to identify yourself as conservative and be treated with respect, then you have a house to clean up.
Standing on the sidelines and complaining about being trashed isn’t defensible. It makes you a coward and a hypocrite.
If you have a problem with liberals trashing conservatives, then you should be going after the people who are giving liberals something to trash.
You should be screaming at the top of your lungs at the treasonous monsters who are making you look bad.
Complaining to liberals about being trashed only makes you look worse.
Grow some Liz Cheney-sized cojones and fight to take your party back. Clean out the trash clogging up your house and take the garbage people out with it. You need to stop behaving like a snowflake because you bear responsibility for this happening.
You’re supposed to work with your honourable opposition to create solutions to our common problems, not treat them like enemy combatants while mindlessly cheering for your team and trash-talking the other like politics were a sporting event.
Real lives are at stake, and your nation deserves better. The entire world deserves better. Democracy demands better.
Bonus Question:Why do many democrats oppose ICE deporting illegal immigrants?
Your question needs to be fixed:
“Why do many Democrats oppose ICE deporting people without first identifying and proving that they legitimately are immigrants who are in the country illegally?”
You’re welcome.
A bonus question you could add is, “Why does the Trump administration commit human rights violations against American citizens by ignoring an 800-year-old legal precedent from the Magna Carta that’s more than three times as old as the U.S.?”
Yet another question you might want to ask is, “Why am I not scared of being hauled away in the dead of night and sent to a foreign concentration camp?”
Being placed on an International Human Rights Watch list should deeply disturb you. If it doesn’t, you’re the problem, not the people who fight to protect rights you take for granted. Before rewording their protests to suit your biases, you should try to understand what they are saying.
This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Why would anyone be so ignorant as to turn a blind eye to the liberal agenda? It’s very apparent they want to control and not be controlled as they should.” (This answer was originally written about six months before the 2024 election and I’ve updated it but I may have missed a few items that could make it seem somewhat disjointed. I apologize for any confusion I missed clearing up. Thank you for reading.)
You have answered your own question.
You assume the right to control what you demonize as a “liberal agenda” and then hurl a confession of your controlling nature as an accusation.
There is no “liberal agenda,” but CONservatives have been very clear in conveying their agenda of controlling a population. The examples of power-hungry conservatism stretch back to antiquity through a delusional assertion of association with Godhood through the arrogance of a “Divine Right of Kings.”
This delusional presumption forms the basis for driving efforts such as Project 2025 and Trump’s assault on democracy, both inside and outside the borders of his nation. This delusional presumption forms the backbone for the “Dark Enlightenment” proposed by the political influencer, Curtis Yarvin, who imagines restoring a two-class society of rulers and serfs. It is precisely this assumption of power that drives every right-wing organization manipulating a MAGAt army of extremists who are prone to violence and listed as domestic terrorist organizations like the “Proud Boys,” “Oathkeepers,” “Sons of Odin,” and other militia groups.
Right-Wing Extremist Terrorism in the United States
This self-serving and socially destructive delusion sums up the entire character of conservatism. It shows up everywhere in everything you monstrously destructive idiots do.
Every problem you pretend to deal with, you make worse. You create problems with your perpetual violations of the social contract each time you issue an idiotically dictatorial edict to repress people and strip them of their rights on all issues that you pollute with your monstrously vile, misanthropic hatred of your fellow humans.
Name any issue where a conservative barfs up what their perversion of a solution is, and you will see nothing more than a hammer smashing a nail because CONservatives can’t handle complexity or nuance.
Economics? — Tax breaks for the wealthy while claiming the wealthy are altruistic beings and not predatory parasites who were responsible for the Great Depression and World War II, and the rise of the Nazi threat — even though history is repeating itself right from the tax table level to the overt increase of racial hatreds.
Abortion? — Shrink the government to the point of fitting inside every vagina to monitor the state of pregnancy. Force pregnant ten-year-old rape victims to term while endorsing capital punishment for women who abort their development process as per their right to bodily autonomy.
Environment? — Pretend the floating plastic continents don’t exist, and if that doesn’t work, deny they’re a symptom of a much larger problem because the last thing you want to do is hold wealthy monsters who pay for your unearned power in government accountable for their destruction.
Alternative Energy? — Deny the need to transition to an environmentally responsible system of meeting our growing energy needs because that would reduce the grotesque profits of the fossil fuel industry, destroying our planet. Have some idiot monkey perform for optics by bringing a snowball into the chamber to deny the global warming responsible for creating heat bubbles that incinerate towns from the face of the map.
Crime? — Pretend it’s on the increase instead of admitting that crime has become less of a problem because you need to keep your idiot flocks scared of a big, bad world so that you can justify the militarization of a government-sanctioned terrorist organization that kills innocent citizens for sport.
Mass-Murders? — Pretend that children being gunned down in their schools is the price the public must pay to be free, while no other nation on the planet experiences that kind of depravity. It’s more important to you monstrous freaks to defend profits for the weapons industry because weaponizing everything is how you react to being overwhelmed by a world that intimidates stupid people who wallow in fear.
You name it. You pollute EVERY issue with ignorant stupidity and destroy lives.
“Right to Work” Laws — Strip workers of their rights, increasing poverty among the working class. All “Right to Work” states have the highest poverty level in the nation.
The list is endless. CONservative stupidity worsens EVERY issue and creates issues that would not exist without their power-hungry meddling. CONservativism is defined by its bullying antics.
Your president is a 34-time convicted felon who you reinstalled to finish destroying 243 years of democracy. It wasn’t enough, though, that he is responsible for more American lives lost than Osama Bin Laden. You want him to rid you of more Americans you don’t like to help the oligarchs take over the nation and become a mirror image of the corruption that has defined an enemy America has been in a cold war with for over 100 years.
You endlessly complain about the debt when your government isn’t controlled by “your team”, while ballooning it by trillions in giveaways to the wealthy and throwing people into dire straits by stripping them of their lifelines.
Republicans embrace the power-hungry, controlling evil that the founding fathers escaped and warred against for the freedom of the people. Republicans embody that evil and seek to transform the nation into the nightmare that prompted the creation of a nation built on liberty through fraternity and equality.
America was built on the solidarity of the people against the controlling monsters that CONservatives everywhere embody.
During the horrors of your prior CONservative presidency of war criminals, you had Karl Rove blatantly announcing your treasonous agenda by claiming your goal of a “permanent Republican majority.” You have taken all the steps you can in an overt agenda to ensure that’s the case by denying Obama’s right to appoint a SCOTUS judge and maintain an objective balance in the scales of justice. Now, you have succeeded in corrupting the highest court in the land to make it a mockery of justice.
You spit on democracy when you dedicate your efforts to controlling strategies like gerrymandering districts, purging voter lists, and creating barriers to the electorate to ensure you can win elections. Then, when that corrupt strategy fails, you attempt a coup on the nation and kill people who won’t submit to your abusive horror show. None of you care in the least about solving our common problems because the only problem you care about is how to control everyone and everything permanently.
You are all ruled by fear and ignorance.
You have concocted a plan (Project 2025 / Agenda 47) to send the entire nation back to a medieval state of rulers and serfs and blatantly threaten violence against those who don’t capitulate to your monstrously inhuman betrayal of humanity. Meanwhile, you believe Trump’s denial of knowledge of it as he recruits its authors and begins his assault against the nation with a “flood the zone” strategy to implement it, on day one of his re-election.
You people embody evil and embrace it with every word and deed, including this pretend question.
“Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality” are values that define a liberal sensibility. It’s not an agenda because values transcend agendas. Only stupid monkeys who have nothing of value to offer beyond horror need agendas. The most famous Republican in history was a liberal. He freed slaves because he valued “liberty, fraternity, and equality.”
You should be embarrassed by your incompetence, if not by your evil and controlling natures or your betrayals of your fellow citizens.
Agendas are what monstrous freaks of broken human nature rely on to conspire against their fellow human beings and assert power over them.
Liberals want power to be decentralized and distributed to everyone, while CONservative monsters aggregate power and attempt to centralize it like every dictatorship throughout history. With clear intent, conservatives deliberately try to reset humanity to a medieval state of society with rulers and serfs and deny it in the same breath.
You can see it in their agenda to make the president’s powers absolute. The SCOTUS took another significant step in that direction before the 2024 election, hoping a decent human like Joe Biden would choose the high road of not exercising that power and permanently terminating a threat to democracy.
You stupid freaks have no clue that you have handed him the right to assassinate your beloved saviour, who pretends to be victimized through a fraudulent assassination attempt to gain sympathy because he’s the most unsympathetic character in recent history. Having him assassinated by the legal means you have granted him would bring a sigh of relief heard all around the world. No one but you, bloodthirsty freaks, wants the ideological divide you’ve been stoking to escalate into a bloody nightmare.
Joe Biden has proven that by refusing to follow your frenemy’s method of eliminating political rivals by nuclear mist. Meanwhile, Trump has been doing all he can to eliminate his detractors by having judges and political leaders arrested, while you delusional freaks cry “freedom!”
Only grotesquely inhuman monsters would support a predatory pedophile like that murderous Orange Nazi… but here you are… endorsing a convicted felon on an agenda to destroy democracy and install him as a permanent ruler while he brazenly claims no one will ever need to vote again.
Ignorance is what defines humongous monsters like you. You should be very glad that we still have the pretense of democratic civilization protecting your stupidity because once that veil drops, all bets are off. You are sowing chaos, and with it, you will reap a whirlwind of regret, which will require the rest of this century for the nation to recover.
Your politics of hatred is not infinitely sustainable and will burn itself out along with you, just like it did almost one hundred years ago, and one hundred years before that. The real tragedy, however, is how many innocent lives you will take with you as you destroy 250 years of progress.
We see you for what you are and what you feed on, while the more people who wake up to the truth of you, the more you dig yourselves into a toxic hole that the world will try to bury in the dust of horrified memory from a nightmare of evil.
This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “If Tesla automobiles are cheaper to make because of less human labour, why are they so expensive?”
Ah… the CON of capitalism is that the people believe price is a consequence of production costs when nothing could be further from the truth.
The cost of everything you buy is based on what the seller thinks will sell the most products.
Ironically, many people believe the most expensive products are the highest quality, and that misconception drives every vanity purchase.
It’s why capitalists like monopolies in their market. They can fix prices at whatever level they want, and people will gladly pay more for an inferior product. That’s how the health insurance industry works in the U.S. All they have to do is sell the idea that their consumers are getting a superior product at a lower cost because they’re not paying for supporting the poor or the immigrants they hate.
It’s a game of manipulating emotions and dulling logic with massive amounts of cheaply disseminated disinformation.
It is so successful at making billionaires richer that they’re trying to institute it in Canada. A handful of billionaires want to spread this formula worldwide with activist organizations they fund.
It’s why Donald Trump likes tariffs — they make people get used to paying more for their products so that when tariffs are lifted, prices drop by less than the tariffs, so that the products still sell at volumes they did before the tariffs were instituted.
Tariffs are a form of strategic price gouging for a market of Stockholm Syndrome victims.
We saw this strategy in action after the global pandemic lockdowns ended and supply lines returned to normal operations.
A product like the Swastitruck can be utter garbage, but because it’s unique in its design and grossly overpriced, people instinctively believe they are purchasing a superior quality product.
Market pricing is a psychological game that product manufacturers and sellers play with their consumers.
This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “What is the role of contract law in regulating business transactions?”
Donald Trump has a reputation for bragging about and laughing about stiffing contractors. He’s been getting away with it because he has had the financial clout to bully his victims out of their earnings.
It may seem such behaviour is anomalous in the business world to someone clueless about its prevalence.
Working as an independent professional puts one in a position of being the lowest-hanging fruit for predators. That often means accepting jobs from people you can’t trust and who are abusive in their treatment.
Anyone starting as an independent contractor learns to navigate this predatory minefield as best they can while developing a professional reputation that allows them to increase the quality of their clientele.
Over time, one is exposed to fewer predators, but the period in which one must survive at the outset is a make-or-break gauntlet of survival because most people will try to stiff you if they think they can get away with it.
The many people I worked with over the decades that I can trust can be counted on one hand.
Many will try to weasel bonuses out of you. Many will try to move the goalposts by having you retouch and redo your work because they’re not quite pleased with the idea they were excited about before. Many will extol the greatness of your work and how their clients love it but then tell you to sod off when you want to collect remaining payments.
I had one client for whom a project that could have been completed in three months extended well past eight months because they kept changing their mind about what they wanted while they tried to figure out what their superior wanted, when that supervisor of theirs had no clue what he wanted. (That business no longer exists. Most of my former clients no longer exist as the entities I did business with.)
Much of the cost of that overrun was borne by me as I worked an inhuman number of hours (two months of overtime within three months) trying to mitigate their incompetence. I was concerned about how long the project was taking to complete.
I lost a lot of money on that project, and as an independent contractor, that means a double-whammy of loss; the loss of compensation for the work done and the loss of work I could have done for another client that (theoretically) would have paid me for other work. I have easily lost more than several hundred thousand in direct losses due to being stiffed by clients (which doesn’t factor in much greater losses from indirect losses).
I have no idea how many people I have encountered who expected my work for free while extolling the benefits of a piece to add to my portfolio.
Contract law is like a rope holding back a tide.
It indicates where the boundaries of responsibility exist between parties, but it is as effective a barrier as one has the resources to defend their entitlements.
If you can afford court costs, winning a case often means simply outspending and outlasting the other party.
This is why, after decades of struggling through that kind of nightmare and encountering abusively parasitic sociopaths after abusively parasitic sociopaths from well more than fifty percent of people one does business with, that burnout becomes a common problem for independent contractors.
This is why I could never be in Donald Trump’s presence as he brags about stiffing people who have worked for him. This is also why the business relationships one develops must be based on trust, because, unless you’re a millionaire with deep pockets, most people can’t afford to bully people into paying them or bully people out of holding them to account in meeting their contractual obligations.
Contract law is a line in the sand that protects the vulnerable from signing their rights away because no contract can contravene established laws. The catch is defending one’s rights and holding the other party accountable for the agreement made within the contract between the parties.
Large organizations, such as software developers who employ onerous contracts that are so overwhelming to average users, who almost uniformly never read them, can entrap people into signing away rights to ownership of their creative content. For this reason, it’s important to post only lower-resolution copies of their work. They can never assume ownership of or resell without your permission while never posting work.
Here’s an example art installation piece by Dima Yarovinsky entitled “I Agree,” which shows how entirely exploitative a contractual agreement can potentially be for creatives who rely on social media to gain exposure to their work.
This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Would you tell the truth about something to help the course of justice if it means you’d lose your job by means of corruption?”
I’ve just rewatched “The Big Short” — a film about the cluster of greed and stupidity that made a few people rich and millions poor and poorer. The housing market grew in a stupidity and greed bubble that collapsed in 2008, and a publicly funded bailout ensued while long-term financial institutions were wiped out of existence.
One quote I caught this time around that I’m stunned I missed it the first time I saw it, or at least don’t remember it:
“For every one percent the unemployment rate goes up, forty thousand people die.”
The nation learned nothing and did nothing to prevent this scenario from repeating. The CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligation) — a corrupt means of bundling bad debts into bad investments to profit from- was not made illegal. However, it has been a rebranded gimmick to create profits for those with resources and market exploitation expertise.
Meanwhile, the U.S. is again heading for a major collapse because the American public seems incapable of learning from its mistakes.
This time around, however, the collapse will not be fixed by stealing from a non-existent middle class after all being robbed by trillions per year for decades.
The “Big Beautiful Bill” that Trump named will add a few trillion more to the national debt and deficit, while twelve countries have already announced they no longer accept the U.S. dollar. The U.S. dollar is losing its status as the world’s currency, making it less secure while the cost of borrowing increases (while investing shrinks).
The next stage is a credit downgrade, and store shelves will be emptier than during the pandemic while product prices go on a gouge fest that will definitely trigger a recession. There is no avoiding it now. How bad it gets is still outside my wheelhouse, but I will not be surprised if it’s deep enough to create a full depression.
The unemployment rate will skyrocket, and the forty thousand casualties of unemployment will break one million.
All of this can be possible only because hundreds of millions are so willing to lie to themselves that they can’t risk facing reality and the prospect of losing the stability they count on to survive in a dystopia.
However, they won’t have any more choices because instability and outright chaos are inevitable.
The arc of history may bend toward justice, but that’s because the trajectory of injustice always bends toward chaos.
There is no way to answer this question honestly because context and circumstances are fluid and unique to each situation. What may be true for a person one day within a given set of parameters may not be true the next day with different variables at stake.
One may hope they will make the moral choice and accept sacrifice, but that’s the kind of self-serving thinking that people often indulge in when thinking they would jump on a grenade to save a crowd.
One’s belief about one’s selfless nature rarely matches reality.
At the end of the day, whatever choice one makes will always be a balancing act between benefits and sacrifices that becomes a lifetime burden to carry.
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