The Musk Administration is now speaking overtly about destroying Social Safety and Medicare along with ravenous folks in third world international locations depending on US meals grown by US farmers who’re additionally being left excessive and dry by the federal government. And right here we’re driving round Argentina. It feels a bit bizarre to be fiddling whereas watching the nation I believed was a bulwark for decency get shredded to loud cheers of assist from the folks. However right here we’re.
We use Starlink and excellent it’s too however my revulsion at what is occurring within the US causes me to take a look at my receiver quite as if it have been Rosemary’s Child.
In the meantime Congress is writing a price range to offer tax cuts to…Musk. And it seems to be as if there is no such thing as a chief prepared keen or in a position to cease this.
They used to inform us that the majority Individuals weren’t saving sufficient for retirement so we obtained regular jobs with pensions and deliberate a retirement technique. Pensions, financial savings and social safety. Now an unelected billionaire is upending our lives. And worse than that may destroy folks barely scraping by on Medicare and Social Safety. And nobody appears to care. I discover it baffling.
I obtained a message from a pal anxious about not solely social safety however veterans advantages. America is doing nothing whereas President Musk assaults veteran well being care. To me that is unimaginable. And but Republicans who personal Congress, the courts and half the governorships say nothing. Democrats can’t tout their achievements so I don’t count on a lot from them on this disaster.
Layne factors out we are able to’t stay any extra cheaply than in South America a area which can also be largely out of the purpose of world large conflict mongering however I really feel awkward writing about this, our comparatively carefree existence at a time when a lot isn’t just going incorrect however is being torn down at residence.
Nobody approves of fraud and waste however when Musk fires authorities inspectors and makes use of unskilled labor to hold out a facsimile of forensic auditing I’m wondering on the lack of protest.
I don’t know easy methods to proceed. Layne desires to hold on so long as we are able to; she’s a Jew and has no need to stay beneath a white Christian Nationalist dictatorship. I don’t know if we should always pack up and return to Britain to settle in a spot I’ve not lived in for forty years, or keep right here or return to the US to affix a protest that should absolutely develop.
I can’t say I’ve been a fan of the management of the nation through the years. I used to be glad to see a black President however Obama struck me as beholden to huge enterprise and the Democratic Management Council which I’ve despised since NAFTA introduced it to gentle. However to see a President threatening opponents, calling protests unlawful and ignoring court docket orders leads me to suppose we now have moved into a brand new age of authoritarian anarchy that’s not for me. And the worst of it’s there are hundreds of thousands of Individuals cheering this on. As soon as Trump goes, if he ever does, they are going to nonetheless be there.
I’ve little interest in trans gender stuff or e-book banning or telling ladies to have kids. I need peace order and certainty and I count on a change of presidency each from time to time to maintain the ship of state hewing a gentle course. I’d like more cash spent to assist the poor and incapable, as in a rustic of 320 million you may’t count on everybody to be on the ball and managing their lives. And till now with numerous failures the nation has finished a satisfactory job of this. If the federal government offers assist for the needy and incompetent I can see no higher use of my tax cash. Supporting veterans any manner they need assistance appears apparent however firing park rangers and meteorologists to stability the nationwide price range appears ludicrous. And attacking social safety, a self contained pension fund accusing it of huge fraud looks like against the law to me, and nobody I do know elected Musk and his statements are made with no figures to again them up, no checking or dialogue. Individuals are simply getting fired on a non-public citizen’s whim.
I discover this betrayal by the nation I’ve cherished to be deeply unsettling. I do know my historical past and I do know what comes subsequent. We’re being undermined by Russia (what the hell would Ronald Reagan say about that?!) and by no means have I heard Trump apologize or admit he was incorrect. There’s one thing incorrect there because the inventory market tanks and enterprise leaders panic.
Whereas I admire this quaint web page not written by AI, promoting free and so forth is a balm in these instances I felt the necessity to say I’m not touring untroubled. I have a look at the international locations we journey by way of to attempt to perceive, not simply to take a look at nature or make a buck off social media. On the similar time my safe residence base has been thrown into confusion and I really feel adrift. My favourite quote about the 1933 take over in Germany is from the British Ambassador in Berlin despatched to the International Workplace in London.
Sir Horace Rumbold was later credited with being forward of his time in anticipating the horrors to come back however his warnings fell on deaf ears. He died in 1941. His description of the brand new regime in 1933 resembles quite too carefully for consolation the Christian Nationalism of our personal Secretary of Protection and assistant director of the FBI:
Rumbold concluded by giving stark warnings for the way forward for worldwide relations:
Sir John Simon, the International Secretary, discovered Rumbold’s descriptions to be “positively disquieting”.[8]Ralph Wigram, an official within the International Workplace, gave Winston Churchill a replica of this despatch in the midst of March 1936.[9] After Rumbold’s dying, Lord Vansittart mentioned of him that “little escaped him, and his warnings [about Nazi Germany] have been clearer than something that we obtained later”.[10] Walter Laqueurconcurred by claiming that Rumbold’s “prophetic” insights defined the Third Reich higher than the skilled opinions that have been later issued from the OSS.[11]
If my phrases sound hysterical I draw your consideration to the cupboard of billionaires and the appointment of individuals not match to serve in excessive workplace. How to deal with what’s to come back is made extra difficult for me by the truth that Layne and I’ve decisions. What’s the appropriate selection I’m positive I don’t know and this causes me stress. I want you nicely however now greater than ever the Chinese language curse mentioned to be: “Could you reside in attention-grabbing instances” appears to use.
