However, I do agree that it should be seen. America can then judge. If that is the battle the Trumpistas want to formally wage, one for people's trust, and simultaneously for the collective dissolution of the soul of the American people, I am confident they will lose that war, and that the wild ride is going into another phase.
It might be the Pence Phase. Trump himself can't ride this wave to the end, he's got to wipe out, and I predicted last spring, remember,
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that if he has not resigned or been removed by means of the 25th Amendment by Presidents' Day, the GOP is going to be massacred in both Houses.
Tick, tock, it's their choice how long they want to avoid vomiting this president up. He's completely uncontrollable, and the Pubs have to include those who are saying to themselves, "this guy is going to destroy this Party, and we, responsible Republicans, are going to get taken down with him."
I'll make another prediction at this point, that Bernie Sanders will be running, and if he does, he will win in 2020 against whatever Republican happens to hold the office, and that is not necessarily Pence, though I would give the best odds on that. One very good thing that Pence running in 2020 will mean is that Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un didn't blow us all up back in 2018, before he resigned.
At this point, speaking with my fellow debater, I engaged in a discourse on post-post-modernism, which is a social ethos not even yet pointed to by Daniel Bell, the pioneering post-commentator on its predecessor, post-modernism.
From Wikipedia: Bell is best known for his contributions to post-industrialism. His most influential books are The End of Ideology (1960), The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973). Two of his books, the End of Ideology and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, were listed by the Times Literary Supplement as among the 100 most important books in the second half of the twentieth century.
People are in a political WAR in the US. My debate adversary's friend and I both went through the late 60s and 70s, and the political war now in progress dwarfs that one in intensity of bad blood. Senators have called each other out, and called the President out for a liar.
The language, representing the coarsening and polarization of the American public dialogue, is absolutely unprecedented in the last two years. A President actually calling a continent full of nations "shithole countries"!?
This is post-post-modernism, which might be the evolution from an ethos of A. everyone is an equally competent arbiter of what meaningful art, political thought, or other human expression are; to one of (in the age of alternative facts) B. it don't matter if what you say means or is worth spit, just say it.
The modernist age, of course, was one in which the education and familiarity you had with a subject, or an artistic axe-- painting, music, dance, sculpture, whatever-- that you had gathered from training and hard work, was to be sought after. An age in which your work would endure, and would provide GOOD and beneficial effects to numbers more than yourself.
This computerization, the rewiring of people's brains, and the absolute ubiquity of information-- what's-his-name coined the phrase "information overload" way back in the 70s, come on, help me there-- has made actual thinkers, seers of the big picture, almost quaint.
I just saw an actual cyborg a couple days ago. He's actually got devices in him, one's in his head, eeewww, that do stuff.
And all this talk about AI-- well, I thank God, or the universe, whatever I feel the feeling of gratitude to, that my own brain is at least running MY life, and at my best I can inform, please, influence people by firmly living in the older, Modernist way, where there still are actual, intrinsic GOOD things to be thought and expressed.
The nebulous thing called Trumpism, if there can truly be an ism synthesized from the sum of his erratic statements and actions, is the ethos of post-post-modernism in practice. I wish Daniel Bell were here to see it.
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