In all the nightmare of news after the recent voting there’s one glimmer of comfort:
In the past, hard times had similar effects on elections, all around the world: Where there’s unemployment, rising prices and uncertainty in forecasts for the future, the right-wing populists always had the stronger arguments – because they make false promises and don’t care about truth.
Let’s remember that they mean ‘business’, in the true sense of the word, the ‘G.O.P.’, that party calling themselves ‘Republicans’.
In ancient Greek that kind of naming was called a ‘euphemism‘: Naming something bad using a fine term.
(The term ‘euphemism’ was invented first for the ‘Black Sea’ known in the Mediterranean to be full of dangerous and troublesome waters and winds, the ‘Pontos Euxeinos’, the hospitable sea…)
This party and its followers simply accumulate money. They don’t really care about others in times of crises, and never will: They didn’t in the past and they won’t in the future. There’s ample proof in newspapers such as the New York Times’ or Washington Post’s past editions, both having been awarded Pulitzer prizes for their reporting quality and reliability.
That sorry excuse for a man, now president-elect, has prepared his way to dictatorship. And with him such people as Elon Musk, another embarrassing entity calling itself a human being.
These to me are bitter ways to express the range of my frustration and actual dread of what they intend to be doing.
One thing is obvious too: That dratted cultural basis the US have in unwritten laws of admiring the so-called ‘successful’ writes it in clear and large Menetekel-letters:
Never mind about others, diversity, responsibility or truthfulness. Just go for the richest man.
It’s been part of some religious bodies even: That he who wins more riches is fine in God’s eye. It’s a disputed reading of some old texts. But it’s been around for too long.
Let’s stay united as those holding the real values at heart. There are quite some troubles ahead. But there always have been. And there also always were those that would try to paralise clear thinking by false threats and defeatism.
Look back at the history around the year 1000 – by the Georgian calendar – that is being used to this day in its modern version in Western countries: The patterns are pretty familiar…
The fight of the voice, in writing and in talking, is the one I mean: Every voice counts, remember that too!
Take your democratic right into your hands and let your political representatives all around the world know personally what you want. Each and every day.
Peace, equality and diversity.
