It seems that twenty years later, they did find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after all.
They found fuel, glass bottles, rags and cigarette lighters.
All is justified in hindsight!
Is the average American okay with this? I was talking to one today over a coffee (who is a very good friend of mine and we can talk about anything) and he was pretty dumbfounded by the claim that Molotov Cocktails are now considered WMDs. And he was a semi-supporter of Trump who was hoping that real free speech would return to the US, rather than everything being somehow outlawed. In his words though, "it turns out Trump might be worse".
Everything is being called illegal and terrorism now.
Is this the America people voted for and are Trump supporters getting behind this? It seems antitheoretical to what was proposed to begin with. But, maybe the current government was expecting quite the pushback it is getting. Or perhaps, the conspiracy theorist in me thinks they are getting just the pushback they wanted, so they can start rewriting laws to increase their power and control for more decades to come.
Time to cut them free?
My friend was asked by his son what happens if the US is cut off from the global economy, and as I have stated here before, I think that the rest of the world will do fine in time, and the US would become like the USSR, before the collapse. A lot of people don't realise that the US economy is able to be the largest and they are able to consume the most, because they are essentially using what they extract from the rest of the world to buy with from externally.
Time to shed the US dollar as the major reserve currency now, isn't it?
Time to price commodities in something else.
While I do see things in the news and hear things from friends and acquaintances, I also feel that a lot of this crazy is being somehow brushed aside, as if none of this matters. Yet, because we are controlled by the economy and the legislation, we are definitely all going to be impacted. And while my friend and I were wandering around an electronics store at the time, I asked him,
Do you have security cameras?
Because while Finland is safe for now, I have a feeling that it is going to get pretty bad, pretty quick, if things keep heading down this path. As people feel more and more oppressed economically and socially, society tends to spiral out of control - accountability goes down, crime goes up.
Ready?
I'm not.
I feel old and just want an easy life, where I can spend the time with family, working at something that I don't completely hate, that gives me enough income to live life with an occasional small luxury, like a holiday away. I don't need much to really be happy, but if society isn't stable, it is very hard for anyone to really thrive. Sure, people might make money, but is that enough?
As long as we keep supporting power-hungry fools, we can't thrive.
That isn't theoretical.
They will keep pushing and pushing, competing and competing in a quest to be the most powerful, no matter who they trample along the way. Or perhaps that is Trumple along the way? We need to invest into new methods of governance that takes the power out of the hands of these kinds of people, no matter what side we might support currently. The security and morality of our governance, shouldn't be in the hands of a few, because as we know, power corrupts, no matter the original intention.
Eventually, they come for us all.
Taraz
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