We, humans (in general) are asholes.
Surprised by this statement? You shouldn't be.
At this aspect, humans divide in 2 groups - there are many other categories, but they are not the subject of this classification.
These 2 groups are:
1. People, who think that they are better than others (for any reason, be it education, religion or lack thereof, finantial status, color of the skin, place they live... etc), and they ACT upon this belief, discriminating left and right, showing their supposed superiority, and applying harsh judgement on everybody, who have and those who have not. Clearly bigots and zenophobes.
2. The Second group is completely different... People who think as above (maybe 'at the back of their heads', maybe at the bottom of their souls), but DO NOT ACT upon it, suppress it, trying to treat everyboy like 'an equal, passing judgements only on those who are openly bigots and zenophobes... And then they 'soak in' they self-appreciation... 'until they are proony'...
It's only my opinion, but I simply do not see any other type of personalities among Humans.
When people from the Second Group get elected to the office, starting from the local level and ending on the highest rank in any system, things go in right direction. Those who have are pressed to share a bit more, and abandon the first group, and those who do not have may benefit from the govenmental program and maybe starting to hate a bit less all those who have. All members of the first group are shamed and themselves have to work on supressing those sadistic and unhumain tendencies.
We are only humans, and knowing what we are and what are the most primitive and tribal tendencies of the psyche is THE KEY to progress and social harmony. Does the harmony exist - no, but we all should aspire to make it happen.
We, 'type 2' people, knowing our demons, do our best to ovecome them. It's a constant struggle, but we are for it. It's a process to make it better, to create a climat, where the racism, and zenophobia (and all other kinds of the discrimination) can't grow, and get eradicated.
Completely different sutuation is created when the First type gets the power. Throughout the history it happened repeatably in different places on the planet. The recent history is full of it - but let me bring our attention to only two episodes which changed the world dramatically. I am referring to the fall of the Weimar Republic with Hitler getting an absolute power in Germany, and of course the second, being Trump getting elected in the USA.
I dare say - the two episodes in the World History which have the chance to be similarly destructive to the fabric of the world societies.
I do not want to teach the history at this point. The Weimar Republic fall is just a reference to show that all has been writted and done already. We all should know it. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - as George Santayana concluded. I do not believe that Trump was an avid student of history (or anything else for that matter - as his niece writes in the new bestseller book)... and his supporters?...
When the First Personality type gets in power, all 'type 1' people get encouraged. They are angry that they had had to suppress their ugly fillings for so long, and they spew the venom of hate. Millions of those who you even wouldn't suspect of being 'bad people' become 'bad' in an instant, and grow in power, seeing the growing number of alike characters, and responding to the encouragement from the highest office of the country.
The fall of the Weimar Republic is just a reference. We have been repeating the same scenario in the USA since 2016, when the dishonest, senile 'type-1' person was elected to be the President of the USA.
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One of the Greatest Governors of the New York State, Andrew Cuomo in his more than 100 daily briefings during the hardest part of the Covid-19 Pandemic, used to say:
"It's all you, people. Show me how you behave today and I will tell you with the high dose of certainty how we all look in 2-3 weeks, with the infection curve and the hospitalization, and the death".
How the USA and the world will look tomorrow is directly related to what 'we the people' think and do. People are tired. That's understandable. We are in a deep mess, where the 'covid-19' pandemic is only a 'cherry on the top'.
Sooner we all understand that what Trump has done already (growing uncontolled deficit even befor the pandemic, loss od the leadership role of the USA in the world, removing the US from the Climat Treaty, destroying non-proliferation treaty, and nuclear heads limit in the arselal of the USA and Russia, Letting Putin's Russia assume control over a great part of the Middle East, etc.) is wrong and destructive to the whole world, sooner we can start preventing the unreperable damage to the fabric of our reality.
It's all you, people, who can promote the change. This, coming elections ARE the most important elections in the history of the world, not only in our history. Do not try to 'wait it out'... The twisted, orwellian reality will hunt us for decades.
It's all you people... VOTE.
