Paulcoholic on Nostr: vic Senator_Armstrong Oh,I’m not disputing your points. I see them too. But I ...
vic (npub1l4e…hev7) Senator_Armstrong (npub18me…xtr3) Oh,I’m not disputing your points. I see them too.
But I don’t see the solution as authoritarianism. Authoritarians have never relinquished power willingly, once they get it.
Authoritarianism as a cure is worse than the disease it attacks. Just like those TV ads for drugs; “Side effects may include death.”
America was founded on certain ideals. It wasn’t founded on an ethnic identity like “Germany,” “Poland,” “Korea,” etc. But on certain Enlightenment values mixed with Greek and Roman concepts.
America as an entity will hold ad long as those ideals are accepted. Unlike “Germany,” “Poland,” “Korea,” etc., which will continue to exist regardless of their political system because they are distinct ethnicities with millennia old cultures, once “America” is disagreed upon, separate partings are inevitable.
I may be wrong, but I think Rome is a good example: no real “Roman” identity beyond certain provinces. As a whole the notion of “Roman identity” was an ideal aspired to by many but after a fashion, it wasn’t enough and it ended.
But I don’t see the solution as authoritarianism. Authoritarians have never relinquished power willingly, once they get it.
Authoritarianism as a cure is worse than the disease it attacks. Just like those TV ads for drugs; “Side effects may include death.”
America was founded on certain ideals. It wasn’t founded on an ethnic identity like “Germany,” “Poland,” “Korea,” etc. But on certain Enlightenment values mixed with Greek and Roman concepts.
America as an entity will hold ad long as those ideals are accepted. Unlike “Germany,” “Poland,” “Korea,” etc., which will continue to exist regardless of their political system because they are distinct ethnicities with millennia old cultures, once “America” is disagreed upon, separate partings are inevitable.
I may be wrong, but I think Rome is a good example: no real “Roman” identity beyond certain provinces. As a whole the notion of “Roman identity” was an ideal aspired to by many but after a fashion, it wasn’t enough and it ended.