(August 31, 2025 at 9:42 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: I'm not say that I'll be sorry to see him bleach himself out, quite the opposite. I'm saying that if you don't treat the underlying problem, then America will just keep crapping its collective pants. I don't think anybody wants to see what the Americans can scrape up that's worse than President Shartstain.
Right. Treating the symptoms helps, but reaching a cure requires removing the base cause. In a nation of 330+ million people, that's a big ask, because the base cause is that tens of millions of people believe this shit.
That's a lot of minds to change, and to be frank, a lot of rigid minds. America is in the midst of a historical paroxysm, one which will ramify through decades going forward -- precisely because treating the symptoms doesn't treat the cause, and treating the cause is such a monumental task that it will require decades to recover ... if we indeed do.
Still address the symptoms, but don't think for a moment the job is done. This is a historical motif that arises somewhat regularly in American history -- "Know-Nothings", Bryan's populism, American isolationism in the 30s (infused with an appreciation of the fascism of the times), McCarthy's persecutions, and now this. Address the symptoms, but understand that like any illness, if you seem to be cured and then relapse, very often the relapse is worse. You finish your antibiotic prescription for exactly the same reason, while you take some Aleve or Dayquil.
