POTD #13 Bluffing Erik Seidel in the Triton London Main Event
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It is frightening to watch this country devolve into a cesspool of Profit over humanity, Wrong over Right, and Free Opinion over facts. It is all too close to the change which occurred in Nazi Germany. Nobody believed that they would be a victim, just as Hispanics could not imagine that despite voting for Trump they would be equally at risk for deportation. Nationalism and extremism if very dangerous and a huge threat to Democracy.
With due respect, I think it's part of America's mythology that they have not always been a country that values Profits over Humanity; your entire economic system is set up and policed this way. Far more so than in Scandinavia or even here (Canada) where social democracy has at least a strong hopefully expanding foothold. I wish it were not the case but it's present in your literature, history, myths, all of it, and in the founding documents too. "Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Property" was t…
Our great Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau (present PM Justin Trudeau’s father) famously said the following about the USA:
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt”