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American politics

Scary,isn't it?

Having lived here for 20+ years (my grandparents on my dad's side escaped the Soviet Union to come here in the 1920's) it is full-on scary. For the first time my wife and I are seriously pondering leaving as this country accelerates the slide into autocracy. Trump hits so many of red warning lights of a dictator and we are potentially only one terrorist attack away from a state of emergency and further erosion of many of the laws that safeguard the concept of a free country.

This side of Amerikkka has always been present - a country founded on genocide and made wealthy from slavery that has enshrined discrimination in its laws from the outset (slaves counting as 3/5 of a person for purposes of representation in the early days). American law was part of Hitler's inspiration in Mein Kampf for how Germany should construct immigration policy.

Ugh.
 
Or maybe it's a good excuse to move work to cheaper foreign factories and blame someone else for it.

The timing suggests otherwise.

I actually like some of what Trump represents. Cutting the crap, cutting through the established protocols to get things done etc. Good stuff. Shame it is backed up by little intelligence or innovation. Few if any of his policies deliver anything of value to people, they are just done for him to look like he's doing something. Will they work? No. Of course not.

If you could take his bluster, premise and determination and combine it with intelligent innovative policy then that would be something. But this is all buffoonery with no value.
 
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