I confess I have suspected that leaders of right wing parties now seem to be 'strongmen' whose only concern is how to dominate. Win or lose, control or be castrated. It's not a new thing but it is seen by thoughtful healthy people to be an obstacle to relationship and mental health. I think it's an obstacle to a livable future.
Listening to conversations where people appear to be hostile to ideas of community, justice, living wages and respect — because these ideas get in the way of the economy, which is promoted as the highest priority for today.
It seems the economy is not part of human structure but the god to be worshipped faithfully, not shared with a reverence for life. Greed must worship the economy, we must bow down to it, to cast out any other concern. Kindness, compassion, are infidels that get in the way of masturbatory greed breathing heavily in all public spaces.
Umair Haque wrote in 2018 "Americans, it seems to me, don’t treat one another like human beings. Perhaps they don’t even really know how to. They’re constantly dehumanizing, objectifying, and degrading people — beginning with themselves." The Idea That Changed the World but America Never Learned. Medium.
This is corporate fascism. Greed for money and status is the destruction of life for the sake of power. In psychiatry it's called 'megalomania', 'psychopathic', 'sociopathic'.
A good and wise friend however, advised that many Americans do not fall under this generalization and grieve for the structural violence created by such capitalist values.
Any institution that promotes and upholds the supremacy of capitalism, is willing to let all of natural creation die for this 'economy'.
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