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| B. C. Comics Forsees Two Countries |
| 2020-01-21 |
| [GoComics] What do you get when you mix a country divided along political lines with a loss of institutional trust? |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #9 #5. Well, there are some perfumed Pentagon princes who clearly see themselves as Marius. On the bright side, I guess that means we still have a century or so before the American principate. Assuming that tech and societal breakdown don't speed up the process. |
| Posted by: charger 2020-01-21 17:56 |
| #8 They aren't journalists anymore. They're all variations on the same AOC-MeghanNarkke-RachelMaddow-Hollywood Maroon theme: a combination of activist, entrepreneur and Shitshow Performer/Drama Queen. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-21 15:43 |
| #7 The sooner the occupation of professional journalists hits the dustbin of history the better. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-01-21 10:35 |
| #6 ...it began when Rome inherited an empire at the end of the Punic Wars. It distorted the power and political arrangements of the city state government. We demobilized at the end of WW2. Ours began when we, our ruling class, decided at the point of the Berlin Blockade to become the world's policeman. The Constitution was never set up to operate a virtual empire with a large standing army. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-01-21 09:30 |
| #5 A couple centuries of bitter partisan politics along with the eroding of trust in the system led directly to civil war and Julius Caesar. And now it is starting in our Republic too. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-01-21 08:54 |
| #4 Political class is a reflex of Journalist clss. |
| Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 2020-01-21 02:34 |
| #3 h/t Instapundit |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-01-21 01:45 |
| #2 For the record, I don't hate the 80-85% of Americans who are largely apolitical and who do not make a living off of gunning up 2 Minutes Hate, or the outrage We don't have a class war in this country. We have one class that is as corrupt as it is incompetent, a group of self-regarding fools that lives inside their own Twitter-Media bubble. That group of course is our ludicrous political & media class, the folks who bring you, hourly, The Shitshow. Replace the absurd, gross antics and virtue-signaling of this class with a group of normal people who are not on the make, who use logic and evidence and speak clearly, in normal English, and half our problems would disappear. We don't have to hate each other. But we do need to replace our current political class, one of the most corrupt and incompetent in modern US history. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-21 00:44 |
| #1 You get France in the 1930s*: a nation whose citizens fear and hate each other more than they fear and hate the nation's enemies. *It doesn't end well |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-21 00:28 |