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About the only thing I disagree with is Mr. Scalzi's statement that Trump is a virus infecting the body politic. I said so in a comment there, which I'll copy/paste here as well:
I don’t think Trump is the virus that’s infecting American politics. I think Trump is merely the most egregious symptom of the virus infecting American politics. So… if Trump himself isn’t the virus, then what is?
Could be all the RWNJ “news” “sources” (aka blatant lie-spewing machines) like FOX News, Breitbart, OAN, etc. which are the sole “sources” of “news” for far too many people (including Trump himself).
Or it could be the innate racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, aporophobia, xenophobia and all the other -isms and -phobias afflicting those people (again, including Trump), such that they willingly and militantly poison themselves with those RWNJ “news” “sources” (and, of course, willingly vote for a putz like Trump) in the first place.
Or it could be the fact that guys like Mitch McConnell are still in office, continually touted by the aforementioned “news” “sources” and continually elected and reelected by the aforementioned people brainwashed by those “news” “sources.” Because if asinine shitgibbons like McConnell hadn’t been there, cooler/smarter/less brazenly evil heads would have prevailed and Trump would have been impeached (and, more importantly, convicted and removed from office) years ago.
Those things are all inextricably linked and they all feed on each other, though, so not sure what’s the source of the virus rather than just another symptom. In any case, those things have been problems for far longer than Trump has been a major player in politics (and for far longer than whatever shenanigans Russia has been getting into lately involving American politics, though that’s still a problem all its own, too), those things will remain problems long after Trump is out of the White House (and, hopefully sooner rather than later, rotting in a prison cell for the rest of his life), and those are the problems that must be dealt with and solved, somehow, if we’re to have any hope of properly repairing our country.
About the only thing I disagree with is Mr. Scalzi's statement that Trump is a virus infecting the body politic. I said so in a comment there, which I'll copy/paste here as well:
I don’t think Trump is the virus that’s infecting American politics. I think Trump is merely the most egregious symptom of the virus infecting American politics. So… if Trump himself isn’t the virus, then what is?
Could be all the RWNJ “news” “sources” (aka blatant lie-spewing machines) like FOX News, Breitbart, OAN, etc. which are the sole “sources” of “news” for far too many people (including Trump himself).
Or it could be the innate racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, aporophobia, xenophobia and all the other -isms and -phobias afflicting those people (again, including Trump), such that they willingly and militantly poison themselves with those RWNJ “news” “sources” (and, of course, willingly vote for a putz like Trump) in the first place.
Or it could be the fact that guys like Mitch McConnell are still in office, continually touted by the aforementioned “news” “sources” and continually elected and reelected by the aforementioned people brainwashed by those “news” “sources.” Because if asinine shitgibbons like McConnell hadn’t been there, cooler/smarter/less brazenly evil heads would have prevailed and Trump would have been impeached (and, more importantly, convicted and removed from office) years ago.
Those things are all inextricably linked and they all feed on each other, though, so not sure what’s the source of the virus rather than just another symptom. In any case, those things have been problems for far longer than Trump has been a major player in politics (and for far longer than whatever shenanigans Russia has been getting into lately involving American politics, though that’s still a problem all its own, too), those things will remain problems long after Trump is out of the White House (and, hopefully sooner rather than later, rotting in a prison cell for the rest of his life), and those are the problems that must be dealt with and solved, somehow, if we’re to have any hope of properly repairing our country.
