Nope. Its all written into the way things are shaped and given to all matter of probability leading up this point.
In a post 9/11 culture, there is less tolerance for individual civil liberties period. Less tolerance for civil dissent and more likely a given that not only that a US government is as likely involved in snooping on its citizenry as it is drafting formally and informally its own citizen spy brigade. While elements of McCarthyism were rearing an ugly head in the early days immediately post 9/11, certainly there were an older, remembering generation, that were seeing some of the obvious signs while ignoring generally others. Never mind, that even corporate culture could be in on the act in one greater vast conspiracy, or that individual homes could be spied upon given any massive violation of privacy, this all to be ignored...
Remedy comes in the sign of changes but changes that shouldn't be substantive enough. Certainly voter anger ushered the GOP swiftly out of office, not because of massive privacy violations, certainly not because of Guantanamo, not because of America's carceral addiction, not because of anything longstanding that had shifted the psyche of the American landscape over decades to the path of the angry white man repleat with shock jock in tote to slut shame former Hollywood child stars turned to prostitution, but because the economy took a jolt. The solution...elect a man that should serve in pronouncing diametric shifts from one side to another. Even criticized for at times sounding too Reaganesque, criticized likely having done too little in the way of liberalism and too much all the same which might have been expected but also given to all the hyperbole of action especially in relating to the absent pedigree of skin color. The problem isn't merely given the inaction in regulatory reform on economic/financial fronts or that the blurred lines between corporation and government should be so much that it might harder to tell where one started and the other stopped. It is that even more social conditions in America are generally ignored and the election of a first black president should be an obvious sign to any given remedy. The festering problem comes to even greater head when it is merely suggested that America is also one of the most punitive countries on Earth in so far as incarceration. Another part of America resents the idea, save a family member thrown in prison for heroin substance abuse, that the 'remedy' weren't enough. As to the infringements on civil liberties, yes, some revisions and another 'remedy' too the domestic security issue supposedly safeguarding the people that don't like their family members being thrown in prison for heroin substance addiction.
And then there is problem of 'demonstration' remaining in all of this. Demonstration of power, emblematic demonstrations, but mostly surface and veneer demonstrations that are raised as an ill forgotten ghost of all this...as though in order to have an enemy, one need empower the enemy in proving an existential threat, but generally speaking, the more looming and pressing issue were that America has already deemed it okay in restricting civil liberties enough, or in having passed laws in spying on itself to so much greater tolerance that a game show could at times be made of the massive invasions of privacy and the social tolerance given were enough so much that most people think little to say much of anything. That is mostly silent submission, and threats of impunity suggestive in culture for moving too far against supposed social currents, and yeah apparently somewhere secret and silent 'don't tell' wars suggested being waged.
And Establishment claims to risk itself foot and hand in principle, but uses Machiavellian populism in its back hand. Do as thou art commanded by the people and you have done no wrong...and certainly, but only as convenient as in the arrangement of a neo liberal war with all investments having been made neither being offed in the process of populism. Thus manipulation in populism, smoke screening and hoodwinking a populace with respect to inherent problems that apparently do matter relative to those that don't. The populace doesn't like being contradicted and especially if their loved one's are thrown in prison for heroin related offenses. The populace might not care if they are robbed blind of their retirement securities in the process so long as restoration means a 'whiter' country in the process.
Trump hasn't surfaced from a vacuum here, and certainly while some have attempted claim that I were personally at times 'delusional' for saying otherwise that problems have been growing domestically in the US for quite some time. Now, I am sort of amused by all of this, because what should be sensed in all of this, is that little talk and much repression has brought much of a social political situation to a greater surface. Its a bit more than as Trump has suggested being an issue of 'political correctness'. I don't know, I think it is of greater concern that no where in the history of the US has polarization in politics been as extreme as it has been and likely the 'remedy' isn't more asinine populism, is it? As to all the problems mentioned above...if it isn't not only a rising culture of victim blaming having surfaced from at one time apathy, or a marked trend of cultural sadism, there isn't anything new here. It is written in all the warning signs of a population that loves to pretend.
In a post 9/11 culture, there is less tolerance for individual civil liberties period. Less tolerance for civil dissent and more likely a given that not only that a US government is as likely involved in snooping on its citizenry as it is drafting formally and informally its own citizen spy brigade. While elements of McCarthyism were rearing an ugly head in the early days immediately post 9/11, certainly there were an older, remembering generation, that were seeing some of the obvious signs while ignoring generally others. Never mind, that even corporate culture could be in on the act in one greater vast conspiracy, or that individual homes could be spied upon given any massive violation of privacy, this all to be ignored...
Remedy comes in the sign of changes but changes that shouldn't be substantive enough. Certainly voter anger ushered the GOP swiftly out of office, not because of massive privacy violations, certainly not because of Guantanamo, not because of America's carceral addiction, not because of anything longstanding that had shifted the psyche of the American landscape over decades to the path of the angry white man repleat with shock jock in tote to slut shame former Hollywood child stars turned to prostitution, but because the economy took a jolt. The solution...elect a man that should serve in pronouncing diametric shifts from one side to another. Even criticized for at times sounding too Reaganesque, criticized likely having done too little in the way of liberalism and too much all the same which might have been expected but also given to all the hyperbole of action especially in relating to the absent pedigree of skin color. The problem isn't merely given the inaction in regulatory reform on economic/financial fronts or that the blurred lines between corporation and government should be so much that it might harder to tell where one started and the other stopped. It is that even more social conditions in America are generally ignored and the election of a first black president should be an obvious sign to any given remedy. The festering problem comes to even greater head when it is merely suggested that America is also one of the most punitive countries on Earth in so far as incarceration. Another part of America resents the idea, save a family member thrown in prison for heroin substance abuse, that the 'remedy' weren't enough. As to the infringements on civil liberties, yes, some revisions and another 'remedy' too the domestic security issue supposedly safeguarding the people that don't like their family members being thrown in prison for heroin substance addiction.
And then there is problem of 'demonstration' remaining in all of this. Demonstration of power, emblematic demonstrations, but mostly surface and veneer demonstrations that are raised as an ill forgotten ghost of all this...as though in order to have an enemy, one need empower the enemy in proving an existential threat, but generally speaking, the more looming and pressing issue were that America has already deemed it okay in restricting civil liberties enough, or in having passed laws in spying on itself to so much greater tolerance that a game show could at times be made of the massive invasions of privacy and the social tolerance given were enough so much that most people think little to say much of anything. That is mostly silent submission, and threats of impunity suggestive in culture for moving too far against supposed social currents, and yeah apparently somewhere secret and silent 'don't tell' wars suggested being waged.
And Establishment claims to risk itself foot and hand in principle, but uses Machiavellian populism in its back hand. Do as thou art commanded by the people and you have done no wrong...and certainly, but only as convenient as in the arrangement of a neo liberal war with all investments having been made neither being offed in the process of populism. Thus manipulation in populism, smoke screening and hoodwinking a populace with respect to inherent problems that apparently do matter relative to those that don't. The populace doesn't like being contradicted and especially if their loved one's are thrown in prison for heroin related offenses. The populace might not care if they are robbed blind of their retirement securities in the process so long as restoration means a 'whiter' country in the process.
Trump hasn't surfaced from a vacuum here, and certainly while some have attempted claim that I were personally at times 'delusional' for saying otherwise that problems have been growing domestically in the US for quite some time. Now, I am sort of amused by all of this, because what should be sensed in all of this, is that little talk and much repression has brought much of a social political situation to a greater surface. Its a bit more than as Trump has suggested being an issue of 'political correctness'. I don't know, I think it is of greater concern that no where in the history of the US has polarization in politics been as extreme as it has been and likely the 'remedy' isn't more asinine populism, is it? As to all the problems mentioned above...if it isn't not only a rising culture of victim blaming having surfaced from at one time apathy, or a marked trend of cultural sadism, there isn't anything new here. It is written in all the warning signs of a population that loves to pretend.
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