Defusion of the Cold War with minimal armed conflicts. German reunification and the pioneering of the EU as a continent-wide collective project.
These happened 30 to 40 years ago. Meanwhile, the US is repeating Germany’s 1930s. Surely, the German Nazi regime counts as its own era, or at least would have if it lasted longer than 12 years?
The US is repeating the US in the 1890s. We’ve been a nation saddled with congenital fascism for centuries. We’ve run out of free real estate to give away to settler colonialists. Our finance sector is a fat little tick sucking our nation dry. And our flagging imperialist military is fumbling around for a fight its not guaranteed to lose.
But unlike our glorious rush into the Spanish-American War and all the indignities that ensued, we’re not a country full of illiterate bumpkins with no sense of our history or understanding of our own plight. This country is thick with opposition. It’s bristling from coast to coast. And its going to go off like a powder keg in the next big economic downturn.
Surely, the German Nazi regime counts as its own era
Fascism wasn’t confined to one country on one continent over the course of two decades. It’s been a plague on the planet going back nearly a century. Trumpism isn’t demonstrating a glorious Triumph of the Will, but a humiliating impotent failure of mismanagement serving as a capstone to the project of American hegemony Bush Jr tried to kick off in 2001.
It’s a death knell for the American Petro-state. The rest of the world is already better off as we turn inward and collapse on ourselves.
These happened 30 to 40 years ago. Meanwhile, the US is repeating Germany’s 1930s. Surely, the German Nazi regime counts as its own era, or at least would have if it lasted longer than 12 years?
The US is repeating the US in the 1890s. We’ve been a nation saddled with congenital fascism for centuries. We’ve run out of free real estate to give away to settler colonialists. Our finance sector is a fat little tick sucking our nation dry. And our flagging imperialist military is fumbling around for a fight its not guaranteed to lose.
But unlike our glorious rush into the Spanish-American War and all the indignities that ensued, we’re not a country full of illiterate bumpkins with no sense of our history or understanding of our own plight. This country is thick with opposition. It’s bristling from coast to coast. And its going to go off like a powder keg in the next big economic downturn.
Fascism wasn’t confined to one country on one continent over the course of two decades. It’s been a plague on the planet going back nearly a century. Trumpism isn’t demonstrating a glorious Triumph of the Will, but a humiliating impotent failure of mismanagement serving as a capstone to the project of American hegemony Bush Jr tried to kick off in 2001.
It’s a death knell for the American Petro-state. The rest of the world is already better off as we turn inward and collapse on ourselves.