We Have Descended into Utter Madness
We have descended into utter madness.
We knew we were at risk of it. We struggled against it as it was happening. We called out the warning signs and its first manifestations. And yet, somehow, its onset has accelerated and deepened and we are suddenly in a place of lunacy more acute than this country has ever experienced
What is more, for all of our awareness and resistance, it is clear right now that our response is too subdued, too complacent, too accepting of the inarguably unacceptable.
At least, as it turns out, frogs do have the common sense to jump out of a pot of water as its temperature grows unacceptably high. We dont. The water is boiling all around us.
Take the news of just the past few days as sketched out in headlines and shards of social media.
We are about to go to war against another country for no reason. Our president is delusionally barking out orders to the planet, seemingly convinced he rules the entire globe.
https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-descended-into-utter-madness
sop
(17,075 posts)KS Toronado
(22,405 posts)Will he shoot down commercial aircraft coming from Caracas? Who's next Mexico? Germany? 
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,517 posts)... and it was bipartisan. HW Bush started it, Clinton kept it going, as did Shrub.
KS Toronado
(22,405 posts)Quite a bit of difference, apples & oranges IMO.
LymphocyteLover
(9,171 posts)that Saddam had been attacking.
Also it was a continuation of our war on Iraq started in 1991 and I think the international community was largely on board with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones_conflict
KS Toronado
(22,405 posts)LymphocyteLover
(9,171 posts)FakeNoose
(39,737 posts)Here's how the title should have been entered:
David Rothkopf: "We Have Descended into Utter Madness"
... or possibly this way:
"We Have Descended into Utter Madness" writes David Rothkopf
Bengus81
(9,635 posts)debsy
(729 posts)
what do we do?
Short of a mass mobilization of tens of millions of people into D. C., what can we do? None of the leaders of the insanity will listen to any of us, nor are any of the congressional sycophants reachable by any method.
Blue Full Moon
(3,055 posts)The drug cartel gang he named doesn't exist. Venezuela isn't where fentanyl comes from as well. The ex president of the Philippines Duterte is on trial at the Hague for crimes against humanity. For doing the exact thing that tRump is doing to Venezuela fishermen. Hogsbreath ordering the murder of survivors is a war crime. So while tRump is having fishing boats blown up which couldn't make it to the USA anyway. Trump is pardoning ex-Honduras' ex president Hernandez who he greatly respects. He accepted millions of dollars in bribes to protect cocaine shipments to the USA. He "paved a cocaine superhighway to the USA." Trump also pardoned Russ Ulbricht earlier. He created Silk Road dark web. Sold more than $200m in drugs. He had been convicted on drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking. He also had solicited 6 murder for hire. He was given 2 life sentences plus 40 years.
Whatever is in the Epstein files against Trump must be damaging.
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