Thursday, January 19, 2017

Banana Republic



When I came to the US from Brazil several decades ago, I wrote to friends and family that America seemed to be just like Brazil but that you needed more money to bribe the people in power. ... I still think that what I observed then holds true then and especially now, the difference being that then the great and beautiful middle here still functioned honestly and in first world fashion.  ... “first world” being a descriptor shunned by the privileged left because it implies that there is a third one, which then implies a hierarchy whose existence the left refuses to admit to... ...and thus contemporary humanities trouble with "reality"… any-who…

...With Trump coming into office, the tendency towards “third world-ness” of this nation that I first perceived as a teenager, 40 years ago, moves from the background to full frontal.  Yep, America you've finally turned into a Banana Republic (yes, lefties, they exist, I was born in one), though this one has somewhat of a Russian Oligarchy flavor to it, so maybe we’ve turned into a Caviar Republic.  …Caviar, Bananas… no matter the food, still a third world kleptocracy.

Welcome to the "Best and Most Amazing" present "ever"....  Oy.


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