Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 25
th, 2024 at 4:37pm:
I don't think so, not at all.
America is flexible and can change to suit conditions rapidly.
It is in a bit of a troubled time, as Aust was 5 --> 10 years ago.
I believe the US will right it's ways and forge forward.
We'll have to wait and see what happens, Sprint.
Right now, one of America's two main parties has been usurped by a criminal cult of PeRsOnAlItY.
Does any dear one here deny this fact?
That's why Bobby's posted this. His DL said it first, so Bobby has to get the message out.
Think on it, no candidate before suggested America was finished. No candidate ever campaigned on political VENGEANCE or MASS DEPORTATIONS or OVERTURNING THE CONSTITUTION or becoming a DICTATOR ON DAY ONE.
Some of his followers have even gone further, turning this message into MASS EXECUTIONS and WAR ON LEFTARDS and DEATH TO ILLEGALS.
America was founded on Christian ideals. Today, America's Christians have stopped going to church, reading the Bible or engaging in anything remotely Christian. They see themselves more as white nationalists defending a brand of consumerist identity politics, much in the same way as Russian Orthodox believers practice their faith in Putin's Russia.
You look back on the sermons of Billy Graham or Robert Schuller or even Tammy Baker and can't even see the same religion. Mainstream American Christians find their voice in sales of God Bless the USA Bibles, bound in cheap fake leather, complete with patriotic song lyrics by Lee Greenwood and the US Constitution. None of it is intended to be read, but displayed on a shelf as a sign of aggressive, nationalistic pride.
This is America at its worst, but it is not its downfall. America can go one of two ways. It can elect the same old guard of bloated fascists to completely wreck the joint. Or it can find a new generation of social democrats - those prepared to take on the corporate oligarchs, raise taxes, fund health, education and social welfare and give middle class Americans the same standards of living we take for granted in Australia, Europe and most of the developed world.
The next election is a crossroads. One way offers a chasm, the other a bridge. Which way will the Americans go?
We'll have to wait and see what happens.