I have an ominous sense that something new and sinister has infected the republican guard, and that honest participation in a democratic republic is not part of it. We are in perilous times.
I was listening to NPR this morning and they considered that the post-merger financial managers at Boeing perhaps thought that Boeing was "too big to fail" no matter how reckless their financial "engineering" became. Of course, they all but ruined Boeing.
It strikes me that far too many republicans may wish to think that, no matter how much they indulge Trump, "America" and American democracy" (whatever that may mean to them) is similarly too big to fail, too secure to undermine.
Unfortunately, once a well is true and well poisoned our intentions, wishes and beliefs are irrelevant. It merely becomes a relic, a reminder of a better past that cannot be reclaimed.
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The chemical formula for the deadly poison hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is disarmingly simple looking. A reminder that the most perilous things need not be shrouded in complexity and subterfuge. Sometime the threats is just as simple and direct as it appears, yeah? Both for wells and for systems of government.
That's one of the big questions: are we going to get to the point where the damage from four more years of Trumpism will take 20 or 30 years to reverse? That could be the case with the courts. With climate, it's more depressing. A lot depends on whether there will be a strong counter-reaction and whether it can find ways to be politically potent.
Maybe the word could be “werkspatz”, korruptekraft, or “lügenfabrik” or maybe “volksfurcht”! I could probably go on!
Great pov, by the way.
wait, though. do you know German??
what about going literal: mouse odor = mäusegeruch
I have an ominous sense that something new and sinister has infected the republican guard, and that honest participation in a democratic republic is not part of it. We are in perilous times.
I was listening to NPR this morning and they considered that the post-merger financial managers at Boeing perhaps thought that Boeing was "too big to fail" no matter how reckless their financial "engineering" became. Of course, they all but ruined Boeing.
It strikes me that far too many republicans may wish to think that, no matter how much they indulge Trump, "America" and American democracy" (whatever that may mean to them) is similarly too big to fail, too secure to undermine.
Unfortunately, once a well is true and well poisoned our intentions, wishes and beliefs are irrelevant. It merely becomes a relic, a reminder of a better past that cannot be reclaimed.
***
The chemical formula for the deadly poison hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is disarmingly simple looking. A reminder that the most perilous things need not be shrouded in complexity and subterfuge. Sometime the threats is just as simple and direct as it appears, yeah? Both for wells and for systems of government.
That's one of the big questions: are we going to get to the point where the damage from four more years of Trumpism will take 20 or 30 years to reverse? That could be the case with the courts. With climate, it's more depressing. A lot depends on whether there will be a strong counter-reaction and whether it can find ways to be politically potent.
Always thoughtful and memorable. That smell is obnoxious! Thanks, Dave. Happy Holidays!!