A quick Sunday word about how the world sees us, and Democratic debate open thread
A punch in the gut, ain't it?
This is how the world sees us in the Age of Trump. Regressing, not progressing, saddled with pathology and illness.
It will take years to recover from the damage we've done to ourselves.
I will never forgive those who voted for this monster, unless they ask for forgiveness. I will never forgive those who didn't vote for this monster, but voted for someone other than Hillary Clinton. They've brought us to this calamity.
I often speak of the felix culpa, the "fortunate fall." In Catholic theology, this is a way to derive good out of the Fall of humanity in the garden of Eden, as the Fall allowed for the saving grace of Christ. A more quotidian way of stating it is that "every cloud has a silver lining." Out of disaster we can rebuild better and stronger. What this regime's incompetence has shown is that America has to change. We must face and meet the challenges confronting us. And that won't be done by voting in the GOP, or at least this cultish iteration of it. People are seeing that the country is broken, unable to meet the crisis upon it. Joe Biden's platform is pretty progressive as it is; expect it to become even more so as the true gravity of the situation unfolds.
American voters will have a clear choice come this November: a party which gambled—and lost—with its lives, or a party which will work to ensure that the nation is better prepared for unforeseen events, which will come fast and furious in this new decade.
Stay frosty, and stay inside if you can.