The world-wide catastrophe we are experiencing is certainly different from any which has happened in the lifetime of anyone except the very oldest people and they were probably too young to get it while it was going on. I think this one may be worse than the one a hundred years ago but that is premature. I can say that since so much more is known about virology and epidemology and all of the other scientifically knowable parts of this kind of thing is so much better known than it was then, the catastrophic collapse of the federal government under Republican rule is far worse than the bad response then. You can grasp how much worse when the only responsible people who have appeared with Donald Trump on stage, Fauci, Brix, even his stooge of a doctor Redfield put their jobs and, Trumps fanatical followers being what they are, possibly their lives on the line when they can't tolerate hearing him lie his fat head off getting and people killed.
I think this one is going to be far worse in its economic impact, the only thing cared about by Trump and the billionaire oligarchs who rule so many of the putative democracies and all of the dictatorships - there is a lot of overlap between the two. When the stock market crashed, it was the phony con job that were the financial markets, banking, etc. that failed, in this it is The People who are under attack from a virus. The People of the world are under attack. This is more like the black death and other plagues of the long ago past in that and the institutions that democracies have allowed to be corrupted and decayed are joining in on that. And unlike in the great depression of the late 20s and 30s of the last century, the highly touted "service industry" that was created as the billionaires and millionaires shipped production to slave economies such as those in the Marxist dictatorships after the opening of China by Nixon. The Chinese dictators (ruling gangsters) took the hint and realized they could become a lot richer through Victorian style capitalism on steroids than they could from a nominally socialist Communist Party ruled state. The resultant destruction of jobs that actually produced things in the United States has left more than a generation of Americans without actual skills. In many cases, they don't even know how to cook their own food, certainly they know very little about growing it as opposed to the generation of the great depression when so many were one or two generations off the farm, themselves.
The Republicans in the United States and the lying media that installed them and maintains them are a warning to democracies around the world that the interpretation of "freedom of the press" "free speech" that led to Americans' first being duped into Republicans and those Republicans, having been so rewarded by lies and other forms of moral degeneracy, in the Newt Gingrich and now Mitch McConnell years that degeneracy and hypocrisy not only knowing no limits but nothing so much as resembling shame. I have mentioned before that when Bill Clinton, at a Hollywood fundraiser asked the assembled moguls and stars of fantasy and make believe to help him make America's culture "to make a new future" that it sent a chill up my back. I would have thought people had understood the danger in that from the first Hollywood created president, Reagan who certainly had massive show-biz backing from the start, he himself a creation of the culture of entertainment. For Bill Clinton to have done that in 1992, as he certainly needed Hollywood money may have been naively innocent, though he was certainly one of the five smartest men to have ever been president. It makes the fact that the even smarter and far better Hillary Clinton was kept from the presidency by the Electoral College putting our second Hollywood product in the Oval Office far more bitter.
When Trump is on that stage, it's sheer Hollywood culture, when Fauci and Brix are up there, it's real and if any of you figure those two are secure in their jobs, if they are kept on that will be a Hollywood culture calculation, when unreality rules, it only matters to the rulers as a matter of casting and even the best actor in a series upstages the star, they are disposable.
Now that we have our second show-biz, Hollywood culture created president, Trump, it's clear that that is one of the pillars of the oligarchy we are ruled by. When a majority of Americans are brought up by TV and movies and Facebook, it makes democracy impossible and when democracy is impossible gangster rule comes in and gangsters don't give a second thought to thousands, tens of thousands, millions dying if they can benefit from it.
Meanwhile, we die because Trump was on TV and radio and in the movies and the Warren Court said the media could lie with impunity.
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