The Second Coming
W. B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
…
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Incredible poetry. One of the best ever, but I refuse to give Turdmp that kind of epic significance.
I'm not minimizing the danger of the moment. But he's a weak idiot. The worst of the worst piece of shit loser, who as a mentally ill malignant narcissist and a pathological liar was able to hoodwink the electorate twice, not out of some great profound personality or deepness, but out of the systemic rot of the GOP and its network of propaganda and brainwashing.
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His end in the public sphere will be as ignoble, pathetic, anti-climactic and banal as any other strongman-wannabe tyrant.
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@TheAbbotTrithemius the person, yes, the beast he’s unleashed are political herpes.
Something like this:
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
- Socrates
Although TBH I’m feeling hella fighty right now… hella hella fighty.
@CanisPundit
I wrote earlier, yesterday I think, that we all must never ever allow this to be assumed to be anything but a freakish aberration. We need to be the conduits and the connectors to the promise of humanity’s best angels and that includes the incredibly imperfect (to say the least) barely realized potential of what this country felt it could be.
Conduits, connectors while also being open to and fostering and nurturing the new.