Yesterday, I had my own long rambling, heart-rending, conversation with my best friend, who lives in Poland, and who is tuned into the latest fuckery from the new American administration.
The question on both of our minds was mainly how could America abandon the "post-war (World War II) dream?" How is it that America now aligns itself with Fascist Authoritarians and against the grand Democratic experiment, here and across the globe? What happened to the great American dream & example?
Good question. Easy answer. The Trump/Musk New Fascist Terror Dome Regime is out to upend decades of Ameican good will and intention. It is heartbreaking. Disgusting. Totally destabilizing. And gob-smackingly stupid and counter-productive. Chaos unleashed.
Good question. Easy answer. The Trump/Musk New Fascist Terror Dome Regime is out to upend decades of Ameican good will and intention. It is heartbreaking. Disgusting. Totally destabilizing. And gob-smackingly stupid and counter-productive. Chaos unleashed.
Back to Heather here:
"At the conference on Friday, February 14, Vice President J.D. Vance launched what The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour called “a brutal ideological assault” against Europe, attacking the values the United States used to share with Europe but which Vance and the other members of the Trump administration are now working to destroy.
Vance and MAGA Christian nationalists reject the principles of secular democracy and instead align with leaders like Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. They claim that the equal rights central to democracy undermine nations by treating women and racial, religious, and gender minorities as equal to white Christian men. They want to see an end to the immigration that they believe weakens a nation's people, and for government to reinforce traditional religious and patriarchal values.
Vance attacked current European values and warned that the crisis for the region was not external actors like Russia or China, but rather “the threat from within.” He accused Europe of censoring free speech, but it was clear—especially coming from the representative of a regime that has erased great swaths of public knowledge because it objects to words like “gender”—that what he really objected to was restrictions on the speech of far-right ideologues."
Vance and MAGA Christian nationalists reject the principles of secular democracy and instead align with leaders like Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. They claim that the equal rights central to democracy undermine nations by treating women and racial, religious, and gender minorities as equal to white Christian men. They want to see an end to the immigration that they believe weakens a nation's people, and for government to reinforce traditional religious and patriarchal values.
Vance attacked current European values and warned that the crisis for the region was not external actors like Russia or China, but rather “the threat from within.” He accused Europe of censoring free speech, but it was clear—especially coming from the representative of a regime that has erased great swaths of public knowledge because it objects to words like “gender”—that what he really objected to was restrictions on the speech of far-right ideologues."
WTF?! Sure over here in the states we are crushed by the hollowing out of the USA government. But this European catastrophe unleashed in Munich is just as, if not maybe even more, disturbing. As a born & bred American Human Being, I am appalled and ashamed that my country is aligned with the worst, retrograde Fascist, racist forces around the world. Not my American Dream by a long-shot. WTF?! I mean, this is a total betrayal of the American Dream. We have totally fucked up by electing a moral cretin, convicted felon, and lying con-man. No doubt.
