Could it be said that the Obama and Biden regimes were the weak men that led to the hard times, that brought about a strong man like #Trump (in the sense of him being authoritarian right), and that we can next expect good times ( #libertarian freedom!), perhaps as a result of a collapse of the US government?
Bullshit 😂 Politics is a theatrical game in which ordinary people are spectators (give them water and a circus) and politicians are actors;
Why are you imposing the right and left scale? Like there is a choice? There is only the state. To free yourself from government you must also free yourself from their programming.
Left and Right are still meaningful concepts, if for no other reason than people think they are.
They are cultural signifiers as much as they are anything to do with actual policy.
No, either there is taxation (Left), or there is taxation (Right). Only bullshit is the difference, nothing of substance.
I've never liked the hard/weak men/times cycle idea myself, there's something that feels particularly depressing about it, like we'll never get off of a kind of treadmill.
I'll also note that every generation gets objectively "softer", and this is a good thing -- living a life of backbreaking labor and dying at 30 might make you "hard" but it isn't something to strive for.
But as for Trump -- my take on him is directly from Hayek's "Road to Serfdom." He is the authoritarian that arrives when (a) government gets too large and promises too much, and (b) the populace gets fed up with the perceived inability of parliamentary democracy to deliver, so (c) they go with a "strongman."
Of course the strongman will fail to deliver as well. I agree the end result is the collapse of the USG, by fiscal failure primarily. I just hope that can be handled in such a way as to produce the minimum amount of suffering for the (former) Americans as well as the rest of the world.
