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In article <
memo.20260531151257.15192L@jgd.cix.co.uk>,
John Dallman <
jgd@cix.co.uk> wrote:
In article <10vfvm9$17a86$1@dont-email.me>, davef@tsoft-inc.com (Dave
Froble) wrote:
On 5/29/2026 3:01 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
One thing I did not see you cover (but I may have missed it) is
the increasing unease here in Europe with relying on US vendors and
the increasing perception that the US is becoming very untrustworthy.
November 2026 is coming ...
2028 is coming ...
I'm looking forward to getting rid of that ego so big it forms it's
own gravitational field ...
That will be nice, but he is not necessarily a one-off. Remember, he was >elected twice. The US is capable of electing such a government again.
That limits the degree of trust that can be placed in the US.
Yes, this is the thing. Trump is a disaster, and the damage he
is doing around the world is incalculable; I would not try to
minimize that. But it is also true that the speciric Trumpism
brand of fascism is unlikely to endure without Trump himself.
He's no spring chicken, and given his age and manifestly poor
physical and mental health, he won't be around forever, or even
particularly long.
That said, he is just the odious manifestation of a much deeper
social rot that has been 50 years in the making, and many
Americans (myself included) were blissfully unaware just how bad
it had actually gotten. Due to the structure of our government
(rooted in our original sin of slavery) that awards undue and
outsized power to a political minority, and the way that we were
asleep at the wheel as so much of the media and information
landscape was quietly usurped by the fasicst Right, it's unclear
how we can correct it in the near term. For that matter, it's
unclear how we can stop an invasion of Cuba in the immediate
term.
Frankly, other nations are right to be extremely wary of the US
in the near- and medium term.
"Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government when it
deserves it." --Mark Twain (who I am sure would agree that the
present US government is undeserving)
- Dan C.
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