https://substack.com/inbox/post/184215571
"I had the privilege of living and studying in America in the mid-1990s. I
lived in states at either corner of the country, the ‘Green Mountain State’ of
Vermont, home to Bernie Sanders, Murray Bookchin and Ben and Jerry’s, and San
Diego, California, which oscillates between residual surfer-stoner hippydom and
a latent bristling xenophobia. Kind of the Beach Boys meet the Proud Boys.
The sort of anti-migrant policies and cultures which were rippling up in
southern California back then should have been a portent to the days we are
living in now, because, as the commentator David Cochrane said on US television
the other day: “America isn’t the way it is because he’s president. He’s
president because America is the way it is.”
But the question of the long roots of the Trump regime can be acknowledged and
explored without obscuring the fact that this is a descent into a far darker
place than we’ve ever seen. It’s both true that Trumpism springs from a country
saturated in violence, slavery, racism, genocide and colonialism, and that this
iteration is more brutal and dangerous than anything before it."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
