Trump’s spectacle of force cannot hide the truth: America is meeting the appetites of the present by stripping future generations of stability, dignity, and hope.
This is a very difficult column to read mainly because of its accuracy. This is not because of “them” but of all is us. The years of comfort in our position in the world has not led us to gratitude but for the past decades to apathy and denial.
Denial has led us to superficial changes rather than real change that includes and embraces all of us and our environment.
It would take some intestinal fortitude on your part, but if Grandpa behaved as erratically and unhinged as Donald Trump has been behaving of late, for his own safety and the safety of others, you would take Grandpa’s keys away.
Kindly Google “intestinal fortitude” and then act as if you were in a position of national responsibility lest your keys be lifted from you.
There is a BIG PICTURE if only 'they' can see it...it involves a future where hope is not just a dream, but something more tangible, something for younger people! Forty democrats voted to block sending bulldozers to Israel. Chuckie Schumer, along with 6 other democrats voted against their 40 colleagues. Thirty-six democrats voted to not send more bombs to Israel. The influence we, the American people, are having on this sick support of this war that is Netanyahu's, djt's and Hegseth's is working...but Schumer who is still deep in the clutches of AIPAC's (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) financial grip still can not see the majority of American sentiment is against this war! We are not benefitting from this war. WE ARE PAYING FOR THIS WAR AND THEY WANT US TO PAY EVEN MORE!!!!! Call Schumer's DC number and call it often...1-202-224-6542...you can leave a message on #3. He wants bombs? Blow up his phone!!!!
even if one could generate definitive proof of cheating (definitive for whom? MAGAts who are impervious to evidence?), how would one unwind the last 15 months or change the next 3 years?
Oh, we couldn’t. But I’m saying that the auditing is out there. Check New York State. Several districts audited the ballots, and in several of them there were no votes cast for Kamala, but rather for Trump. 100%, no votes for Kamala. But on the same ballot, they voted for Democrats down Ballot. So the information is out there. But yeah, I think people realize it would be a losing battle.
I adore this woman. Thank you Mary for studying what's happening and writing about it in ways I find the most readable of anyone I read. And I read a lot. Rarely watch news. I prefer the concise presentation by great journalists.
Though I've long been a huge fan of your eloquent writing, your latest post has left me disappointed.
It's all too easy to call out the current Washington "leadership class" for being incompetent, irresponsible, arrogant, and corrupt, forgetting that half of America's voters opposed returning their party to power. But what about the arrogance and incompetence of our opposition leaders, who saw no need to find or promote a winning successor for their one-term stopgap president until the last possible minute, so sure were they that their own indubitable moral superiority would inevitably carry the day again? Worse, the same crew are still asleep at the switch, although it is already too late to start building momentum for a decisive victory in 2028. Surely someone new will come along just in time to carry the torch for us, the good guys? Meanwhile, let's just keep a low profile, subscribe to Substack, and remember the Founding Fathers....
Copy and paste, restack, share: Mary has conveyed a core truth of what we are witnessing with piercing clarity and eloquence:
“Literally, we are borrowing against generations not yet born to finance wars we cannot define clearly, much less win. We are burning through ecological stability, democratic legitimacy, public trust, and social cohesion for immediate political advantage. Worse, perhaps, we are normalizing corruption, lawlessness, and institutional decay, then calling it realism or patriotism or toughness, as if slapping a flag decal on the looting makes it stewardship. A society is no longer sustainable when it preserves present power and present comfort by stealing possibility from the future. On that measure, the United States is not merely in trouble. It is running an intergenerational smash-and-grab.”
Yes! This administration says they want “real Americans” to have more children but the present course of action is leading to a debt ridden environmental hellscape
It’s too much for me to keep up with. But your posts give me insights beyond my community and state while also including them. I still know people who support the orange menace , I give room for other opinions ,reality will catch up with all of us.
But I think American people and as a country are majorly good, some leaders also, not all of either. But do we all live in the same reality? Perhaps it’s more encompassing to say there are different realities. It IS different rich vs poor, women than men, children than adults , and laws, representatives, have to negotiate principled exceptions .
But principle must remain clear.
That being within reasonable effort everyone is given the same chance.
What gets in the way of ‘reasonable effort’ are the people who don’t have enough . They’re at both ends of the spectrum.
And yes….its complicated, it takes a lot of fine tuning, mistakes are made.
I really believe leveling the playing field , bests we can do, ought to be done by level heads and clear principles.
This is a very difficult column to read mainly because of its accuracy. This is not because of “them” but of all is us. The years of comfort in our position in the world has not led us to gratitude but for the past decades to apathy and denial.
Denial has led us to superficial changes rather than real change that includes and embraces all of us and our environment.
Dear Speaker Johnson,
It would take some intestinal fortitude on your part, but if Grandpa behaved as erratically and unhinged as Donald Trump has been behaving of late, for his own safety and the safety of others, you would take Grandpa’s keys away.
Kindly Google “intestinal fortitude” and then act as if you were in a position of national responsibility lest your keys be lifted from you.
Cheers!
There is a BIG PICTURE if only 'they' can see it...it involves a future where hope is not just a dream, but something more tangible, something for younger people! Forty democrats voted to block sending bulldozers to Israel. Chuckie Schumer, along with 6 other democrats voted against their 40 colleagues. Thirty-six democrats voted to not send more bombs to Israel. The influence we, the American people, are having on this sick support of this war that is Netanyahu's, djt's and Hegseth's is working...but Schumer who is still deep in the clutches of AIPAC's (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) financial grip still can not see the majority of American sentiment is against this war! We are not benefitting from this war. WE ARE PAYING FOR THIS WAR AND THEY WANT US TO PAY EVEN MORE!!!!! Call Schumer's DC number and call it often...1-202-224-6542...you can leave a message on #3. He wants bombs? Blow up his phone!!!!
Thank you for your brilliant analysis of exactly where thus country is heading.
Mary, I love your writing. But I think it is a myth that Trump actually won the second time around.
even if one could generate definitive proof of cheating (definitive for whom? MAGAts who are impervious to evidence?), how would one unwind the last 15 months or change the next 3 years?
Oh, we couldn’t. But I’m saying that the auditing is out there. Check New York State. Several districts audited the ballots, and in several of them there were no votes cast for Kamala, but rather for Trump. 100%, no votes for Kamala. But on the same ballot, they voted for Democrats down Ballot. So the information is out there. But yeah, I think people realize it would be a losing battle.
I adore this woman. Thank you Mary for studying what's happening and writing about it in ways I find the most readable of anyone I read. And I read a lot. Rarely watch news. I prefer the concise presentation by great journalists.
Dear Mary Geddry,
Though I've long been a huge fan of your eloquent writing, your latest post has left me disappointed.
It's all too easy to call out the current Washington "leadership class" for being incompetent, irresponsible, arrogant, and corrupt, forgetting that half of America's voters opposed returning their party to power. But what about the arrogance and incompetence of our opposition leaders, who saw no need to find or promote a winning successor for their one-term stopgap president until the last possible minute, so sure were they that their own indubitable moral superiority would inevitably carry the day again? Worse, the same crew are still asleep at the switch, although it is already too late to start building momentum for a decisive victory in 2028. Surely someone new will come along just in time to carry the torch for us, the good guys? Meanwhile, let's just keep a low profile, subscribe to Substack, and remember the Founding Fathers....
Copy and paste, restack, share: Mary has conveyed a core truth of what we are witnessing with piercing clarity and eloquence:
“Literally, we are borrowing against generations not yet born to finance wars we cannot define clearly, much less win. We are burning through ecological stability, democratic legitimacy, public trust, and social cohesion for immediate political advantage. Worse, perhaps, we are normalizing corruption, lawlessness, and institutional decay, then calling it realism or patriotism or toughness, as if slapping a flag decal on the looting makes it stewardship. A society is no longer sustainable when it preserves present power and present comfort by stealing possibility from the future. On that measure, the United States is not merely in trouble. It is running an intergenerational smash-and-grab.”
Yes! This administration says they want “real Americans” to have more children but the present course of action is leading to a debt ridden environmental hellscape
Such a hopeful ending thought, Mary!! Love your writing and analysis!! Brilliant!!!
It’s too much for me to keep up with. But your posts give me insights beyond my community and state while also including them. I still know people who support the orange menace , I give room for other opinions ,reality will catch up with all of us.
But I think American people and as a country are majorly good, some leaders also, not all of either. But do we all live in the same reality? Perhaps it’s more encompassing to say there are different realities. It IS different rich vs poor, women than men, children than adults , and laws, representatives, have to negotiate principled exceptions .
But principle must remain clear.
That being within reasonable effort everyone is given the same chance.
What gets in the way of ‘reasonable effort’ are the people who don’t have enough . They’re at both ends of the spectrum.
And yes….its complicated, it takes a lot of fine tuning, mistakes are made.
I really believe leveling the playing field , bests we can do, ought to be done by level heads and clear principles.
Thanks for providing this Mary.