What is the connection between the WHO coronavirus investigation in China and Democrat attempts to impeach Donald Trump even though he is no longer US President?
To my mind the connection is scrutiny or perhaps we might say oversight. Totalitarian national establishments, political parties or political movements cannot tolerate any form of outside scrutiny, inspection or oversight. This is a core aspect of what it means to be totalitarian.
It also applies to individuals. People with a totalitarian political outlook resist outside scrutiny, often reacting in a hostile manner to criticism and analysis casting doubt on key facets of their political outlook, particularly where moral doubts are raised.
This is what we see in Democrat attempts to impeach Donald Trump. He offered voters oversight and scrutiny of the establishment. For that the establishment loathed and abused him in a traditionally totalitarian manner, accusing him of anything and everything which came to mind. Not a pretty sight even from this side of the Atlantic.
A startlingly unmissable aspect of the entire US establishment including the media has been an immovable determination to reject the oversight and scrutiny roles Donald Trump brought to the US Presidency. He came across to this observer as a would-be US CEO with a self-imposed brief to sharpen up numerous failings within the US establishment. A brief huge numbers of voters hoped he would deliver – as he so clearly knew.
Unfortunately for many millions of US voters, the US establishment and its stakeholders have drifted towards a self-serving and increasingly totalitarian political ethos. The impeachment process itself is corrupt – very much a banana republic reaction to the threat of even the mildest reforms. Sadly that is the term being repeated all over the place now – banana republic.
A startlingly unmissable aspect of the entire US establishment including the media has been an immovable determination to reject the oversight and scrutiny roles Donald Trump brought to the US Presidency. He came across to this observer as a would-be US CEO with a self-imposed brief to sharpen up numerous failings within the US establishment. A brief huge numbers of voters hoped he would deliver – as he so clearly knew.
Unfortunately for many millions of US voters, the US establishment and its stakeholders have drifted towards a self-serving and increasingly totalitarian political ethos. The impeachment process itself is corrupt – very much a banana republic reaction to the threat of even the mildest reforms. Sadly that is the term being repeated all over the place now – banana republic.
3 comments:
Yes, I think that Trump may well have failed to deliver on his agenda, but the groundswell of opinion will not have gone away. His supporters will be incensed by the impeachment, but the establishment are too dumb to realise this.
His republican successor is going to be interesting. (I'm assuming he will be too old by then...) Either it will be an establishment person, in which case they will have won. Or it will be someone much more right wing, and the gloves will come off.
I'm not easily persuaded to dredge up history for the most telling analogy... but people have asked why so many decent Germans went along with their totalitarian government in the 1930s.
My suspicion is that many Americans have been deceived by propaganda delivered at high speed with little chance of reflection. They have been 'managed' by their 'team' to vilify the opposition, people dread being targeted by the Woke fascists, and there is big money pushing to return to an opaque status quo. And that's how so many decent people are conned into going along with the Basket of Reprehensibles.
But... this is only half the population. The other half (the Basket of Deplorables) are resisting. It's a 'minority' too large to blame everything on. A unity President and a unity set of political parties might still navigate back to some sort of civil society. But it seems like a huge task.
Sam - it's hard to tell what the Republicans will do because some of them seem to be there for the ride. For electoral success they would have to be united in appealing to the electorate Trump showed them exists, but they don't really seem to want that electorate. Similarly the Conservative party doesn't really want many of us.
DJ - yes the 1930s analogy is telling, people don't do enough to avoid being deceived by propaganda and appeals to their emotions. It doesn't feel like a resolvable problem, too many people have to learn by direct experience when it is often too late anyway.
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