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!!!!
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
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?
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.
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!!!!
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
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?
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.