NO KINGS DAY: BE THERE, PLEASE - by Neal Gabler
(PLUS THE END OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA HAS ARRIVED)| nealgabler.substack.com
(PLUS THE END OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA HAS ARRIVED)| nealgabler.substack.com
One of the most wrong-headed and destructive myths in American life is that businessmen know what they are doing – a myth that has led to another long-held notion among a good many Americans, especially Republicans, that the government itself is in better hands when businessmen rule than when politicians or bureaucrats do.| nealgabler.substack.com
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that nearly all the eulogies for Robert Redford, who died last week at the age of 89, began with his beauty.| nealgabler.substack.com
It is difficult, probably impossible, to say exactly when America took its final step into oblivion.| Farewell, America
Someday, fifty or one-hundred years from now, historians will examine this period, and render their own verdict on what happened to us and what it meant to us.| Farewell, America
To begin with an understatement: I am not given to political optimism, especially not now.| Farewell, America
Much of humankind suffers from a profound ego problem.| Farewell, America
There will be plenty of time, decades, I suppose, to try to explain how this nation had moved - all right, plodded – its way to social justice, and then suddenly reversed course, racing its way toward what can only be described as deep, deep cruelty and viciousness and social injustice.| Farewell, America
My dear, dear friend Bill Moyers passed yesterday.| Farewell, America
Tomorrow, as you doubtless know, is No Kings Day, and protests will be conducted across the country to decry and challenge Donald Trump’s heinous activities.| Farewell, America
Donald Trump loves to govern – or, to be more precise, he loves to rule, if you call his mess ruling.| Farewell, America
One more week, a hundred more catastrophes.| Farewell, America
Though I have no illusions whatsoever about the possibility of defeating our Hitler enthusiast president, his MAGA acolytes, mindless Republicanism, and conservatism, which is cruelty masquerading as a political philosophy - all of which endanger our nation, our world, and our moral sense - I will nevertheless be protesting on the streets this morning and bearing witness to the disaster that has befallen us, and I hope you will be too.| Farewell, America
We are living in a nightmare from which we cannot awaken.| Farewell, America
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This long, seemingly endless election campaign is finally drawing to a close, and for many of us the finale feels dire.| Farewell, America
Gibberish. When Donald Trump isn’t fueling hatreds and hyping up his crowd of hyenas, he is talking gibberish, as we all know.| Farewell, America
Years ago – twenty-seven to be exact – I wrote a smallish book titled Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, in which I argued that the most powerful force of the then-late-twentieth century wasn’t political or religious or social or intellectual or philosophical or scientific or artistic.| nealgabler.substack.com
