Clearly I'm an idiot. I don't see one man rising to power and circumventing the democratic process to concentrate all that power within his own office. They (and I mean all Presidents for the last 40 years) have concentrated more power than they were ever intended, but not nearly enough to be King like. The whole thing is a sham anyway as it doesn't really matter who gets to sit in the chair, they're all cut out of the same cloth and all have the same ultimate agenda.
The virus has just put on the fast track a plan that has been in place for a long, long time. The dragging of America down to the level of everyone else.
I'm confused as to what "camps" we have? Our own homes? These 50 little fiefdoms we have run by some power mad dingbats and blundering fools?
Our current problems are a combination of the virus and political agenda. A fool will say the virus doesn't exist. A fool will also say that the government is doing it's best to protect the people... From what? A disease that's long since won this fight that no one can control? People thinking it's government's job to take care of them is the problem. People have no sense of responsibility and no one seems to want to, or is able to, make choices by themselves that might help to reduce the spread. All most intelligent people want is to be able to live their lives and take whatever level of risk they feel comfortable with. The true stupidity is that while they might be willing to take more risks than others, they are not willing to take steps to mitigate that risk when interacting with other people.
For instance... We go to a lot of races in other states around us. No masks, no social distancing, basically it's just like any normal Pre-Covid Saturday night. That's a level of risk we're willing to take. What I'm not willing to do is put my parents lives in jeopardy, especially since they're both diabetic, one has had a heart attack and the other, part of his lung taken out. So, in the last 4 months I've seen my parents for 4 hours. Masks, distancing, as little interaction within the house as possible during that time to mitigate the risk to them. I am willing to risk my health to do what I want, but I have no right to expect anyone else to do that and I have no right to risk their health if I can avoid it.
Europe has no leg to stand on here with criticism. They can bitch all they want that Americans are stupid and racist and intolerant blah blah blah but they would do well to turn around and look in the mirror and their own anti-semitism.
If foreigners think we're all morons, by all means don't come here then. If they think we're all morons and still come across the pond, fuck them and their hypocrisy. If it was so bad than why did they come over in the first place?