(August 20, 2017 at 8:05 am)Alex K Wrote: Good for him, really!Rationale discourse in the U.S. political arena has been taking a siesta for decades. It's all about sound bites and memes.
But, it has become so ridiculously easy to play the political hero under and with Trump, and that's also a problem. People like Arnie and Macron can make videos stating obvious and normally uncontroversial things like "Nazis bad", "You shouldn't cancel all environmental policies", "science is useful" that 10 years ago wouldn't have raised an eyebrow, and get celebrated as heroes. That also means that you don't have to make the effort and political sacrifice to discuss complicated or really controversial and difficult topics anymore, because "Nazis are bad, Mr. President" earns you all the publicity and political profile you need. A monkey could write a valid criticism of the Trump administration.
Does America still remember how to discuss actual policy and offer criticism on more subtle issues than "Arrest all the muslims and nuke Korea!" or will they have forgotten how that works after Trump is gone, because they were occupied with complete absurdities for so long.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
