Averting the Greatest Crisis Humankind Has Seen in a Very Long Time
I hope you’ll check out this video from David Frum, senior editor at The Atlantic and the chairman of Policy Exchange, and then ask yourself about the urgency of getting personally involved. You may want to consider all the aspects that make (made) America the greatest nation on Earth: freedom of the press, equal opportunity, rights of women and minorities, public education, environmental protection, a thriving middle class, a government that works for all the people, or dozens of other bulwarks of a free society—literally all of which are under immediate threat from the new regime in Washington. Then, select the arena in which you have the greatest passion or feel you can make the largest impact, and get to work, enjoying every minute, knowing that you’re standing up against the single most destructive force humankind has faced since World War II.
Craig,
“the single most destructive force humankind has faced since World War II ” !
Wow, !
ER, do you really think the election of a President you and David Frum dislike, (okay, really, really dislike) is greater than the Korean war, Berlin Wall, Mao’s annexation of Tibet, famine and Pol Pot ! How about MAD , the Berlin wall, Cuban Missile crisis, Soviet invasion of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam,Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the list goes on and on…
Or could it be just hysteria and tantrums caused by losing an election and over-active imaginations ?
So far, the new US President hasn’t done anything he didn’t announce during his campaign, nor acted unconstitutionally.
Meanwhile in the UK, depite a lot of media hysteria the sky didn’t fall, the “immediate economic devastation” forecast by the Guardian newspaper, hasn’t occurred as Westminster MP’s voted 498 to 114 supporting the Governments right to trigger Article 50, dissolving the UK’s membership of the EU.
All talk of a “second vote” has dissipated with the realization support for Brexit has increased since the referendum.
The Trump administration may not pursue policies of your choosing, but as long as it adheres to the constitution, the ability to act destructively is limited.
The EPA may be forced to be more accountable, it may have to explain to Congress and the American people why it needs a tank regiment or how exactly it spends $6.6 billion of research grants, $400 million on “political awareness ” publicity and information etc.
Pipelines will be built, but only after all due process is exhausted, immigration will become more controlled and selective, in common with many nations.
These policies maybe disagreeable to some, but hardly radical or unusual, mostly simply enforcing existing laws.
Trumps economic policies have yet to be tested (or even properly explained) but are unlikely to be excessively radical, or long term destructive.
President Trump will certainly be an unusual President, perhaps a throwback to the more colourful US Presidents, but hardly worthy of such excessive hype.
What has he destroyed so far to earn the title “the single most destructive force humankind has faced since World War II” ?
We’ll see where this goes. It’s not hard to imagine that I turn out to be correct here, if only on the basis of the environment alone, the destruction of which has catastrophic consequences for all 7.3 billion of us.
And in terms of the Constitution, it’s fairly clear that he started violating it the moment he was sworn in. Again, we’ll see.
I have to smile at your choice of euphemisms. E.g., if Trump were merely “unusual,” none of this uproar would be happening around the globe.