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Re: I wish I was left handed » floatingbridge

Posted by sigismund on April 20, 2011, at 23:26:12

In reply to Re: I wish I was left handed » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on April 20, 2011, at 21:58:43

We get all this news (I think) because there is real anxiety about political gridlock in the US. And there are refugees from the US who then make it a subject in their various fields. I'm thinking of Chip someone or other who is the director of the Sydney Writers Festival and who made that the theme of last years festival. And I've noticed it in other papers and magazines such as the Telegraph (London, straight conservative) and the Economist (pretty free market).

When I reflect on the fortunate but complicated hand the US possessed after WWII I am more willing to feel that even interventions like Vietnam made some sense and were honourable in their intentions if not in their execution (stopping communism, stabilising France and protecting its sense of honour). Whereas now I truly wonder if attention is being paid to the world outside the US. Clearly this can't be expected from Mr Trump about whom I know only that he fires people, owns buildings, has a lot of hair and is very rich. Sort of like Elvis but without the charm and the drugs but with much more money. Decline, that's what it is.

Australians tend to be concerned because they can see it spreading here. I think. Anyway a program remarked that he had made Sarah seem like a public intellectual.

I wonder how much that hair cost? It *could* be genetic.

How do you stop being alarmed about this? Ever since I read it on Tuesday I have been in a state.

 

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