2025 will be the beginning of a repeat of the Guiled Age (19th-early 20th century)…..

Too many once critical opponents of Trump are starting to change their tunes and basically asking….what could go wrong?

Heads up here…I AM NOT ONE OF THEM!

I have read all 900+ pages of Project 2025 and anyone that has been awake for the last couple of decades should see the problem that is rising on a dim horizon.

Personally, and I am not alone, I think the US could be entering into a new Dark Ages….

Donald Trump has moved at warp speed to nominate people to serve in his Cabinet and other important government posts who have chosen loyalty to him as their most important virtue, making a mockery of merit even as the nominees claim to uphold meritocracy.  

Moreover, like Trump himself, his nominees denigrate science and scientific expertise, subscribe to conspiracy theories, are eager to impose litmus tests in the arts and education, and seem hostile to the world beyond America’s borders.

Elections have consequences, so the saying goes.

And if that wasn’t enough to remind us that elections have consequences, the president-elect announced that on the first day of his administration, he will order a mass deportation of millions of immigrants and impose stiff tariffs on this nation’s most important trading partners.

While much of the post-election commentary has focused on its implications for American democracy,  there is another side to what will unfold starting on Jan. 20. When he takes office, Trump, who promised to Make America Great Again, seems determined to lead America into a period of scientific, cultural, educational, and global retrenchment, which collectively might be called the new “Dark Ages.”

Some see Trump as reviving the so-called Gilded Age of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an era of great prosperity as well as technological and industrial growth. It was an era dominated by corrupt “captains of industry” or “robber barons” whose corrupting influence also extended to government and politics. 

However, leaders in the Gilded Age did not reject science and rationality. Quite the contrary, they embraced both because they saw them as essential to the growth of capitalism. And they invested in culture and the arts, rather than trying to make them hue to a particular orthodoxy.

https://www.salon.com/2024/12/07/welcome-to-the-new-dark-ages/

I am a person of meager means and I am not thrilled about the policies Trump has threatened the country with…..these policies will do nothing to make my life better if they are put into action.

Some of these ‘nominees’ are truly ‘successful’ business men…..but very very few have done anything to help this nation and its people….they have raped (metaphorically) and back-stabbed to get their millions and billions but that does nothing for me.

I want the people to lead my nation that look at the people and how to improve their lives not as a pack of peons to be exploited.

Do not fret far from finished with my criticisms.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”