[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #700 Church of the Poison Mind

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Op zondag 29 december 2019 00:58 schreef MangoTree het volgende:

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Die is al begonnen, al veel eerder zelfs dan 2019.

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KaivanShroff twitterde op zondag 29-12-2019 om 01:08:48 NEW: Biden says he’d nominate Obama to the Supreme Court (if he would accept). reageer retweet

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Two of the most widely quoted and shared poems in the closing years of this decade were William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” (“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”), and W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” (“Waves of anger and fear / Circulate over the bright / And darkened lands of the earth”). Yeats’s poem, written just after World War I, spoke of a time when “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.” Auden’s poem, written in the wake of Germany’s invasion of Poland, described a world lying “in stupor,” as democracy was threatened and “the enlightenment driven away.”

Apocalypse is not yet upon our world as the 2010s draw to an end, but there are portents of disorder. The hopes nourished during the opening years of the decade — hopes that America was on a progressive path toward growing equality and freedom, hopes that technology held answers to some of our most pressing problems — have given way, with what feels like head-swiveling speed, to a dark and divisive new era. Fear and distrust are ascendant now. At home, hate-crime violence reached a 16-year high in 2018, the F.B.I. reported. Abroad, there were big geopolitical shifts. With the rise of nationalist movements and a backlash against globalization on both sides of the Atlantic, the liberal post-World War II order — based on economic integration and international institutions — began to unravel, and since 2017, the United States has not only abdicated its role as a stabilizing leader on the global stage, but is also sowing unpredictability and chaos abroad.

A 2019 Freedom House report, which recorded global declines in political rights and civil liberties over the last 13 years, found that “challenges to American democracy are testing the stability of its constitutional system and threatening to undermine political rights and civil liberties worldwide.”

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Op zaterdag 28 december 2019 23:18 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:

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Hij heeft die tweet inmiddels toch maar verwijderd.

https://www.washingtonpos(...)a4d2c2166_story.html

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brianstelter twitterde op zondag 29-12-2019 om 04:03:51 Thread, 1/4: Earlier today I said Trump had RTed, then removed, a post with the unsubstantiated name of the Ukraine whistleblower. Tonight, Twitter said that Trump never un-RTed the post. A Twitter glitch made it LOOK like he had removed it. I've updated my story the new info. reageer retweet

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brianstelter twitterde op zondag 29-12-2019 om 04:07:45 4/4: We've updated my @CNN story with a new headline:"Trump attacks whistleblower in tweetstorm full of rants and conspiracies"https://t.co/UoqUHMmWLR reageer retweet

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Op zondag 29 december 2019 16:49 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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In tegendeel, juist door het laks optreden tegen illegalen druk je mensen daar de bijstand in.
Met als gevolg dat je een permanente onderklasse krijgt omdat ze simpelweg niet kunnen concurreren met de illegalen.