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.
“Republicans”…?
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.
Dictatorship ahead…
To summarize the ‘quality’ of this man who’s been elected in this year 2024 for president of the United States of America, at the moment the most powerful nation on this earth (why…?), a couple of many more truths about him – signs for a possible intended dictatorship:
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- The Supreme Court Justices at that one-time revered legal institution as well as highest and last legal instance in the US’s legal system, are necessary for a change of the constitution in order to ’empower’ a dictator(ship).
- They were in majority selected and instated from his political stronghold – during his last time in office.
- Via Twitter (now X) he initiated the attack on the Capitol in January 2021.
- He was ruled guilty on 34 counts in May 2024. Yet, the Supreme Court(!) confirmed his immunity during his time in office.
- He has committed several acts punishable by criminal law, especially fraud, bribery and embezzlement.
- He was indicted on sexual abuse and found partly guilty.
- During the 1960s he drove several of his businesses into failure on purpose in order to save his own assets, thus willingly ruining thousands of small stakeholders.
- In fact: He is criminal and ruthless.
- He is best buddy with Putin in Russia. Another dictator.
- There’s only a fine line left to divide them (him and his actual ‘stakeholders’) from a dictatorship.
By a coup, or even without one…
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 yet clear ways to express the range of my frustration and actual dread of what they intend to be doing.
The ‘Monetary’ Cultural Basis
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 Our Voices be Heard
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.
