3681 - Behind Bars


It’s interesting to see what Trump will really do, now that he’s managed to defeat “crooked” Hillary. It’s all like a bad soap opera, isn’t it? But then, a lot of his voters will get very, very angry if he doesn’t follow up on his own announcements. The question is, does he care?

I think it’s unlikely that we’ll see Hillary Clinton behind bars, but I bet a lot of perfectly innocent, poor people will not be as lucky. Some of them will even have voted for him. Nobody will care though. Solidarity is for the communists.


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Markus   (2016-11-17)

... and what that solidarity is worth I see here in Harare. Imagine they still have a Politburo here! A local colleague told me that here if you go out as a (political) protester on the street you should better prepared to die. And I fear thats not hyperbole. Of course that does not excuse what T. has done and will do his country, his voters included. But I just read statistics that 22% of the Germans would accept a political 'Fuehrer' that doesn't bother with parliament or law. Admittedly I was shocked, but then this just reflects what manifests itself in Poland, Hungary, Great Britain, France, just to name a few.

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andreas   (2016-11-18)

Words mean nothing. That's one of the big lessons one learns over the years. Politburo => Communism => ? The implications are completely random when Politbuero can mean the buddies of the local dictator. And to start with, Communism was not meant to be a dictatorship originally. It also implied certain guarantees and rights, all attributes that it lost to various degrees in different places and over time. In some places not more than a fascist dictatorship was left. See North Korea. In others like China we see a "communist" society move straight into kind of a capitalism, that again is completely different from what the word means in the US. Words are problematic and people are told to not question their "official" meanings. That's how dogmatism as a tool of any ruling group or class makes us believe that we've always been at war with Eastasia. And most people are fine with that, as long as things are acceptable (a word without static meaning by itself!) or someone claims to do something that is declared to make things better. Even if it doesn't make sense.

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Juha Haataja   (2016-11-17)

It is unfortunately so that there is no vaccination against dictators, and when time passes, the resistance goes away, and it can be rather painful to try to build it up again. A fitting photograph to T. It may be that the people will be googling the meaning of the term "impeachment" more and more during the next few years.

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andreas   (2016-11-18)

I doubt it. Those who would, already did 🙂

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