[FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

[Steven A Smith]

I prefer the model of Twain's "history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes"...

It appears that the great poem of life has lapsed into a riff of 
thug-rap (taking names and popping caps)...  which could go on for quite 
a while... apparently there are a lot of folks who want/need that kind 
of angry/negative me-first energy?

And a slap-happy new year to you too!

> Dear Pollyanna,
>
> It will end and we’ll all learn an important lesson?
>
> Whew, I was worried there for a minute!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
>
> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Jochen Fromm 
> <jofr at cas-group.net>
> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
> <friam at redfish.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, December 26, 2018 at 6:53 AM
> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
> <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *[FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism
>
> Merry christmas and a happy new year 2019! I hope Mueller will finish 
> his report in 2019 and I assume president Trump will either resign or 
> be impeached like Nixon, since the House belongs now to the democrats 
> (Did you know "Mueller" is the German version of "Miller" btw? As you 
> know a miller is someone who creates the flour we need for life) Then 
> Donald will spend the rest of his life in prison or seek asylum in 
> Russia. This would be the end of "Trumpism". But who knows, it's a 
> complex world. In hindsight we will learn more about "Trumpism" as 
> well. At the moment it seems to be a mixture of the original Italian 
> fascism and post-soviet authoritarianism, i.e. the rule of an 
> authoritarian leader who demands absolute loyalty and trusts only his 
> family. I believe we can only decode social systems if we really 
> understand the various forms of *-isms like fascism, nazism or 
> communism, and how they are related.
>
> -Jochen
>
>
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