Comments by "Halfdan Ingolfsson" (@Halli50) on "Thom Hartmann Program"
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The US as a concept is, sadly, falling apart. While the French pioneered the concept of liberty, equality and fraternity in relatively modern times, the fledgling new United States of America took the concept to another level. That experiment is now apparently buckling under the weight of autocrats. The rich and privileged have for over 200 years tried to run the show in the US and were on top of it all until WW2, when they temporarily lost control. The white and privileged part of the US enjoyed actual liberty most of the time, at least until Ronald Bloody Reagan ruined it all. Equality was, at least on paper, enjoyed for a while but fraternity has always been outlawed in a nation where a privileged few (the Repugnican minority) are allowed to rape and pillage the disfranchised majority.
The last time this state of inequality was allowed free rein ended with a bloodbath: The French masses rose up and invented AND USED the Guillotine!
While the radical Trumpists have been diligently amassing a lot of military-type weapons and ammunition, they are less than 20% of the US population. The more peaceful 80% of the nation will, when finally provoked to act, rise up and violently overwhelm and slaughter the fat and useless fascists, the Brownshirt/Gestapo/SS types of modern US society.
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Thom, you are now supporting blatant cover-ups, simply because you own country was caught committing war crimes?
To compound the hipocracy, you want the MESSENGER, the whistleblower to be punished, not the war criminals!
Wikileaks were handed a trove of information about the war crimes YOUR COUNTRY committed in Iraq and, like any independent news organization, they simply PUBLISHED IT!
The "Crazy Horse" callsign, a bloodthirsty young 'Murican chopper pilot chomping at the bit to be allowed to SHOOT something, to KILL something exposed a fatal and murderous flaw in the 'Murican psyche, something I cannot condone, ever. Anyone that watched the dead father and the seriously wounded children will never, ever be able to forgive the murderous intent of the sick young 'Muricans that killed a father and tore apart his children because the father saw a wounded person in the street and wanted to help! I certainly hope the identities of these murderous 'Murican soldiers - and their commanders - will become public in the future, NO ONE should be above the law!
Watching you defending the war crimes and advocating the shooting of the messenger does it for me: One lost long-time subscriber - and another brick in the wall that confirms that being a modern 'Murican is a serious mental disease.
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The level 'Murican right-wing politics have sunk to is astounding, they are making the Spanish Inquisition look like a picnic!
What is horrifying is the fact that 1/4th, even 1/3rd of 'Muricans have been dumbed down to the extent that they are eager to re-elect Trump to a position of power; Hitler reincarnated!
Putin, China and a sprinkling of other autocrats (Erdogan, Orban, Netanyahu etc.) are raring to go - and 'Murican right-wingers seem raring to go with them! Just remember the sticky end the latest set of autocrats came to: Hitler the miserable coward checked out by his own hand and Mussolini ended up hanging by his balls! A truly grisly sight.
There is a slew of 'Murican right-wing politicians that will eventually join the likes of Göebbels, Himmler and Mengele in the history books. Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Greg Abbot, Ron DeSantos, to name a few...
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Thom is describing the state of greed in the US! The US of A is in serious trouble, it has been systematically been dismantled from the day Ronald Bloody Reagan became president. True, there are developed nations that are further down the drain than the US: Russia, Poland, Hungary and Turkey are just a few "developed western nations" that have gone completely off the rails, not to mention the countless other nations that are also on the path to destruction, countries like Brazil and the Philippines. The myriad of smaller despotic countries do not even register in this context.
There are many examples of nations where the average citizen has a good shot at living a decent life - having a good work/life balance, raising and educating their children to their best potential and being assured that good health care is a right, not a privilege! All the Nordic countries and the bulk of European countries are currently managing this. Sure, there are dismal failures like Poland and Hungary, but those are exceptions.
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Has Fascism Taken Root In America? Short answer: NO, bloody NO!
Has Fascism Taken Root In the US? Short answer: YES, bloody YES!
America is a two-part, even three-part continent, North, Central and South America.
The northern extreme is around N83° (Canadian America) and the southern extreme is around S55° (Chilean America). The crude arrogance of 'Muricans to hog the concept of what is an "American" is astounding! The most damning piece of evidence is the fact that 90% of 'Muricans could not even find 'Murica on a map if their life depended on it! The corona virus pandemic just might be the catalyst that forces the US population to face the fact that they are actually "The Crappiest Country on Earth", not "The Greatest Country on Earth".
All the US population has to do is to turn out to vote, every single one of you! It might take a few months (the 2020 election) or it might take longer, even 4-8 years. Stop listening to your lying politicians, start thinking about what qualities you want in your politicians (e.g. no lies!). Politicians are experts at both lying outright and lying by omission. You, the voter, should be able to spot the difference between an empty campaign promise (Mexico will pay for the Wall!), a corporate trickle-down promise ( the Repugnican/Democrap "spiel" for 40-odd years) or a genuine 40-year commitment to working 'Muricans (Bernie). The only certainty is that 'Murica in it's current form is not sustainable.
Just how bloody the showdown will be remains to be seen.
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