Dr. Cox Richardson has traced the attempt by Russia and its US allies (the GOP, Trump, his coterie, and the Trumpian voters) to destroy the USA and replace it with a Russian satellite state. This feels like a kind of revenge, except it really is the way nation states operated against each other in the days before WW1. Putin is nothing if not regressive. That goes for the GOP and the conquerors alive and well among us today. This class of man longs for a return to Rome, a slave society. One can look up the history of Rome and see what people who are in awe of that society see if the leaders of those societies have their way and no one else has any say in their own destiny. Those leaders would be the paterfamilias in each family. That guy! Sure, most family groups were not important but like, 24, were. Did I mention armies, their use and maintenance? Armies like those clashing in Ukraine even as we speak? How many sides have we heard? At this point, many of them. Evidence has piled up that we can no longer question or ignore. This is not something we want to see happen, but we haven't known what to do about it. We have tried fighting, like in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. We did leave jolly olde England and went independent. The oceans on both of our sides helped. Canada helped. So did Mexico. And actually, us Western Americans went all in for living here and not there, in Europe: We were in the North, Middle, or South Americas. Our historians and philosophers, down to people like Dr. Cox Richardson, have always existed and left writings about their attempts to understand and guide the western world. Yeah, that is us. It was then and is now hard to control all of us. That is our key advantage. Let's use it gently and quietly everyday as we live among each other, enjoying life, and that is absolutely everywhere….what then? We do it long enough to give us time to work holding us all together in our everydayness. Many classes of people have done that the world over throughout time, and their childlren are still doing it. We are doing it separately and together. We are helping hold us all together. We are paradox in helpful outcomes. We exist too.
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