America at the CrossroadsPower, Politics, and Performative Grief
In February 2024, as the fortunes of Joe Robinette Biden began to visibly decline,Don Kenobi wrote:Empires don’t collapse suddenly.
They decay quietly… then fall all at once.
America is not arguing about policy anymore.
It is arguing about its soul.
And that is how great nations die.
None of my business
but will be such a shame to LOSE America…
FROM TYPHOID MARY TO “TYPHOID SARAH”
Read up Typhoid Mary. A luckless lady said to have infected New York City with typhoid. Not sure how but that’s the story. Happened in the early 1900s.
Fast forward to the early 2000s… history will record, “… And there was typhoid Sarah”.
Saw a recent picture of Sarah Palin and I gasped. All that ugliness has somehow seeped out and distorted that once pretty face.
The loss of America, Typhoid Mary and now Sarah Palin, what’s the nexus, I hear you ask?
WHEN EXPLANATION NO LONGER SUFFICES
If you need me to explain, no amount of explanation will suffice… (actually this a joke. It’s a gimmick I use when I don’t have time time to write ✍🏾 or explore a topic and it works).
Let me leave you with this from the tweet below 👇🏾
“Electing Republicans at this point is a self-destructive act. They don't care about the country and they can't stop bickering amongst themselves long enough to get anything done.”
A NATION DRIFTING TOWARD THE FALLS
Americans are sleepwalking their nation to the cliff edge… sailing their ship of State towards a gigantic waterfall… which has at its bottom, wrecked ships of state from antiquity… ships on which if you look closely you might find inscriptions such as “Great Hittites”, “Greater Assyria”, “Babylon the Great” and many a granite statue of forgotten gods…
A WARNING FROM HISTORY’S WALLS
I have written about this before: a poignant message written out on plywood near the home of Anne Frank… yes! The same one. The young diarist in Nazi occupied Netherlands…. I had scheduled a visit to the house she has lived in - the one in which she has made all those diary entries. It was now a tourist attraction.
Sadly, the house was undergoing repairs and had been boarded up, this was in May 2010. As I walked away, on the boards which surrounded the house was a graffiti in white spray and it read:
EMPIRES DREAM OF EVERYTHING…..
…..BUT THEIR FALL
AMERICA IN THE CROSSHAIRS
Republicans (and their evangelical allies) are destroying America and it’s all about a return to white supremacism.… this america which now is is in their crosshairs. It MUST be destroyed.
Reason?
It is living up to its promise.
It works for the little people.
A MOMENT OF RECOGNITION
I was stunned into silence yesterday as I watched a video which I shall post in the comment section - it was an interview by a gentleman whose last name is Schaefer. Scion of an evangelical family. In spite of the fact I have repeatedly called evangelicals out, it was stunning still to realize that I was right.
POWER, FAITH, AND THE THREAT OF THEOCRACY
Mike Johnson the little guy whose now speaker of the UNITED STATES HOUSE, is an unabashed white “Christian” nationalist who has passed himself off as a messenger of God in the mould of Moses, and believes that america should be a theocracy, has no qualms committing high crimes and misdemeanours along with dozens of elected republicans in Congress.
This is terrorism. This cabal is terrorizing Americans not in their demographic by creating the impression that they can “do and undo things Jay so ever they like or dislike, agree with or disagree with… and because they “control” the Supreme Court of that country, they are above the law!
Imagine any other demographic acting this way….
THE ARGUMENT COMES FULL CIRCLE
None of my business but will be such a shame to LOSE America…
Read up Typhoid Mary. A luckless lady said to have infected New York City with typhoid. Not sure how but that’s the story. Happened in the early 1900s.
Fast forward to the early 2000s… history will record, “… And there was typhoid Sarah”.
Ahhhh… I said this before.
Sorry
CONCLUSION
I rest my case
Don Kenobi
OldManInTheMolue
Power, Politics, and Performative Grief
Empires don’t collapse suddenly.
They decay quietly… then fall all at once.
America is not arguing about policy anymore.
It is arguing about its soul.
And that is how great nations die.
None of my business
but will be such a shame to LOSE America…
FROM TYPHOID MARY TO “TYPHOID SARAH”
Read up Typhoid Mary. A luckless lady said to have infected New York City with typhoid. Not sure how but that’s the story. Happened in the early 1900s.
Fast forward to the early 2000s… history will record, “… And there was typhoid Sarah”.
Saw a recent picture of Sarah Palin and I gasped. All that ugliness has somehow seeped out and distorted that once pretty face.
The loss of America, Typhoid Mary and now Sarah Palin, what’s the nexus, I hear you ask?
WHEN EXPLANATION NO LONGER SUFFICES
If you need me to explain, no amount of explanation will suffice… (actually this a joke. It’s a gimmick I use when I don’t have time time to write ✍🏾 or explore a topic and it works).
Let me leave you with this from the tweet below 👇🏾
“Electing Republicans at this point is a self-destructive act. They don't care about the country and they can't stop bickering amongst themselves long enough to get anything done.”
A NATION DRIFTING TOWARD THE FALLS
Americans are sleepwalking their nation to the cliff edge… sailing their ship of State towards a gigantic waterfall… which has at its bottom, wrecked ships of state from antiquity… ships on which if you look closely you might find inscriptions such as “Great Hittites”, “Greater Assyria”, “Babylon the Great” and many a granite statue of forgotten gods…
A WARNING FROM HISTORY’S WALLS
I have written about this before: a poignant message written out on plywood near the home of Anne Frank… yes! The same one. The young diarist in Nazi occupied Netherlands…. I had scheduled a visit to the house she has lived in - the one in which she has made all those diary entries. It was now a tourist attraction.
Sadly, the house was undergoing repairs and had been boarded up, this was in May 2010. As I walked away, on the boards which surrounded the house was a graffiti in white spray and it read:
EMPIRES DREAM OF EVERYTHING…..
…..BUT THEIR FALL
AMERICA IN THE CROSSHAIRS
Republicans (and their evangelical allies) are destroying America and it’s all about a return to white supremacism.… this america which now is is in their crosshairs. It MUST be destroyed.
Reason?
It is living up to its promise.
It works for the little people.
A MOMENT OF RECOGNITION
I was stunned into silence yesterday as I watched a video which I shall post in the comment section - it was an interview by a gentleman whose last name is Schaefer. Scion of an evangelical family. In spite of the fact I have repeatedly called evangelicals out, it was stunning still to realize that I was right.
POWER, FAITH, AND THE THREAT OF THEOCRACY
Mike Johnson the little guy whose now speaker of the UNITED STATES HOUSE, is an unabashed white “Christian” nationalist who has passed himself off as a messenger of God in the mould of Moses, and believes that america should be a theocracy, has no qualms committing high crimes and misdemeanours along with dozens of elected republicans in Congress.
This is terrorism. This cabal is terrorizing Americans not in their demographic by creating the impression that they can “do and undo things Jay so ever they like or dislike, agree with or disagree with… and because they “control” the Supreme Court of that country, they are above the law!
Imagine any other demographic acting this way….
THE ARGUMENT COMES FULL CIRCLE
None of my business but will be such a shame to LOSE America…
Read up Typhoid Mary. A luckless lady said to have infected New York City with typhoid. Not sure how but that’s the story. Happened in the early 1900s.
Fast forward to the early 2000s… history will record, “… And there was typhoid Sarah”.
Ahhhh… I said this before.
Sorry
CONCLUSION
I rest my case
Don Kenobi
OldManInTheMolue
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