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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'll cite Niall Ferguson once more:
The progression is Economic Malaise > Nationalism/Tribalism > Scapegoating > Regional Skirmishes > Possibilly, Global Conflict
Trump is a symptom, not a primary cause. Yes, he's an accelerant, and a agitator at the worst time. But historically, that's the only time people like him come to power.
This is not a defense of Trump. This is a request that people consider the broadest possible context, because what we've got happening must be addressed. And if Trump gets hit by a bus tomorrow, it's still going to happen. If Hillary'd won, it'd still be happening, just differently. Or perhaps identically, or in a more lurid manner.
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. If society makes this an exclusively or even mainly Donald Trump thing, it'll never fix any of the causes of things like Charlottesvillle.
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I'm just pissed because I'm fed up with bigots. Screw who you want to blame it on, there's no excuse for it, whether on a street in Charlottesville or in an office building in Boston.
And I have unkind words for anyone who wants to try to excuse it.
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