I don’t know about that. I think nations allowing aristocracy to parasitically divert resources and set policy priorities go back to the beginning of history, as soon as we could start organizing labor and creating surpluses. Wasn’t Marx a historian?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

Nobody leaves the Company

We’re creating our own “Mini Kuiper Belt”. By the time we’re ready to make interplanetary space travel a practical thing (intriguing but doubtful given present circumstances and trajectory) there will be so much space shit that it’ll be as dangerous as trying to land a plane in the United States today!

Strains credulity

I don’t buy it. They’re flying American jets and they don’t have IFF?

“Political power comes from the barrel of a gun”

Democracy is usurped, policy projections are incomprehensible, volatile, everyone should take note.

I remember when I was a kid watching and Pecard was talking about humanity moving on to a moneyless society, the fact the Star Trek was space communism was the most obvious thing in the world. Love breaking that out on boomers.

If anyone thinks Epstein was the first or the only guy doing what he was doing they’re a nitwit

We are the extinction event

Macron will drown with the rest of them

Trump is the result of decades of continuity in U.S. foreign and domestic policy. He’s not an aberration. “Good cop, bad cop”, nobody’s buying it anymore.

That is effectively the case in history, and I don’t think OP is denying that, but the philosophical basis is more about individual human rights. I think OP is asking how Americans feel about how far from those ideals we have strayed, which is completely off the fucking map. For my part, I question the cost to society that prioritizing individual liberties like property rights has had, but I don’t think that capitalism itself is inextricably linked to “classical liberalism”, and Americans tend to insist that it is. It’s a confusion born out of ignorance and propaganda.

The “Founding Fathers” were shit people, but the constitution as an evolution of enlightenment ideals is a pretty sound document, we just haven’t lived up to the doctrine. The same could be said about communism as practiced by authoritarian regimes.

Are we talking about liberalism or neoliberalism? My understanding is that liberalism is, ostensibly, grounded in enlightenment ideals.

Chris Matthews, Central Park.

Honestly these guys should be banned from traveling to Europe for the rest of their lives. They will absolutely be involved in radicalization campaigns.