In addition to what Spinoza said here, we have Hegel’s remark that “the only think we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
Regardless, what we’re running into here and now in the United States is unprecedented in American history. Since the country was established in 1776, there have exactly zero attempts to overthrow the federal government–until now, of course.
Here we have a former president inventing lies about the validity of an election in an illegal attempt to remain in power. We might think that effort failed, but it may be too early to make that claim.
With each passing day, there are fewer and fewer American voters who believe the bullshit at left.
Is Trump working hard to stay out of prison? Enrich himself and his family? Of course.
Could be possibly care less about anything else? Obviously not.
What’s the thought process of people in the rest of the developed world when it comes to visiting the U.S.?
Conversely, would you or I want to visit some country with a deeply corrupt regime that is systematically committing atrocities all around the globe, and whose leader is lining his pockets?
I’m glad I don’t own a resort in New England that counts on a flow of visitors from Canada. If I were a Canadian, I’d be thinking I’d rather visit hell.
Part of the challenge facing Trump is that a number of congressional Republican has reached the limit of their tolerance for the lies, the reckless stupidity, and the criminal corruption.
Since they are abandoning the sociopath en masse, that makes them, in Trump’s mind, RINOs (Republicans in name only).
It’s too soon to see where all of this is going to settle out, but God willing, it looks like the GOP may be headed back towards some level of normalcy in terms of honesty and sanity.
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