Told you so!!!

Fogy’s Humble Admission (Not).*

Yesterday I was happy to post the New York Times article on American lawmakers’ opinions of the Duck (POTUS). Those who read it might have noticed a few familiar points — echoes of Fogy’s long-standing dislike and distaste for this particular person.

“Told you so!” isn’t really fair. It seems painfully obvious to Fogy — and, I suspect, to many observers around the world not hypnotised by the messy and greedy machinations of what appears to be a nation teetering on its own contradictions.

It’s hardly fair, too, to throw everyone that once-great nation represents under a bus simply because they were born there or live there. Yet so many years of carefully crafted manipulation of minds and souls have led to what the world now sees.

And is it an isolated case? Hardly. If not the forerunner, it is at least the follower of other modern states that have bred systems and people capable of moulding nations and politicians alike into the same grotesque shapes. Russia, Israel, and Venezuela quickly spring to mind — an odd grouping, perhaps, but all have used strong-arm tactics to sway outcomes and dominate headlines.

Topping those same headlines we now see the UAE-financed Air Force One lumbering its hideous cargo of ego across the globe, poisoning a planet that was once on track to recovery.

The Americans themselves have developed a more ego-centric approach to the world, convinced that all serve their mighty empire — shades of Rome, methinks, and probably not far from the truth.

It is not their fault, of course. When such domination wells up and carries a team forward, complacency sets in and a “It can’t happen to us!” mindset takes over. It was not by accident that so many Germans remained ignorant of what was happening around them during WWII — and one might argue that the modern Duck-in-Chief has carried this tradition of collective blindness into twenty-first-century America.

What can be done, you might ask? Very little, it seems. Sometimes it’s best to ride out the fiercest of storms so that a clearer assessment can be made — of when the bandages must be applied and what vaccines might be needed to cure all and sundry of such sicknesses.

Heavy-handed, perhaps, to call it an illness. But it does seem that this nation and its people are sick, struggling to find a cure that doesn’t infect the rest of the world.

Yes, I’ve left some obvious situations and hotspots off the table. Posts will come in time. So keep tracking the POV.

The cure, as always, begins with the courage to admit the infection.

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Nature’s oddities we can forgive. It’s when imitation becomes policy that things turn toxic.