Awful America? NPR Host Scott Simon Compares Trump's USA to the 1970s Soviet Bloc #Political
For decades, National Public Radio was funded by American taxpayers, but these people do not love America, especially when Republicans are in charge. On the latest Weekend Edition Saturday, host Scott Simon demonstrated this by comparing today’s America to Eastern Europe under the domination of the totalitarian Soviet Union.
Coming out of President Trump’s speech at Davos, Simon noted (and sided with) Canada’s socialist leader in an audio editorial headlined "Mark Carney's warning and its echoes from the past."
Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, opened his remarks in Davos by citing an essay by Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright dissident and eventually president. When "The Power Of The Powerless" was written in 1978, Havel's country was still in the grip of Soviet Communist control. The essay could only be circulated by hand and read in secret. It was eventually published around the world. Havel's essay invites us to ask ourselves, how can good people sign on to the nonsense of a bad regime?
Havel's essay did not call for mass demonstrations, although many would follow. It suggested that change might begin in a society when people stop the rote motions by which a government infers loyalty.
That’s Trump, obviously – “the nonsense of a bad regime,” and apparently totalitarians. Simon explained that in Havel's essay, a greengrocer puts a sign in his window saying "Workers of the World Unite," an old Communist rallying cry, to get along with the tyrants.
How mentally daft do you have to be to compare a democratically elected leader with the Soviet communist empire? NPR wouldn't stomach conservatives saying Obama was a Communist, or just like a Communist. But these people clearly side with the globalists at Davos, and agree that America now is an international menace:
Prime Minister Carney did not mention President Trump by name, but he called on what he called middle powers, like Canada, most of the European states at Davos, to live the truth and see the scaffold of American power on which so much of their security had been built was being abandoned. When even one person stops performing, said the prime minister, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack. Prime Minister Carney said, friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down and find a different way forward. Almost half a century later, Vaclav Havel's vision and words may offer strength as the world faces another great change.
Opposing Trump is “living the truth,” and comparing the “scaffold of American power” to Brezhnev’s USSR is considered truthful. Simon seems to be suggesting that an American empire needs to collapse like the Soviet Union did. This is when conservatives can get angry all over again that these people have stolen our money to smear us.
PS: In the previous segment, the "Week In Politics" chat with NPR political analyst Ron Elving, he suggested Trump was so unglued it was time to raise the 25th Amendment [click Expand]:
SIMON: Ron, I want to be careful about raising this, but I think it's important to ask you. President Trump rambled a lot in his remarks at Davos. He referred to Greenland as Iceland several times. He mocked the sacrifices, lives lost of U.S. allies and seemed not to know that, in fact, NATO had come to the defense of the United States after 9/11. President Biden had a shaky debate performance. There were calls from both parties for him to step down. Has President Trump's conduct made his mental health a genuine concern?
ELVING: One big difference between this moment and the Biden debate is that Trump is not on the ballot in November the way Biden was. But hundreds of other Republicans are, as candidates for Congress and state offices. The Biden example is not lost on those campaigns. And they will be hearing questions. Trump will be 80 in June. People notice changes in his walk and his talk and changes on his face and his hands. Then they start noticing behavior, noticing when he loses his temper repeatedly over small things or when he says adverse polls in The New York Times are fake and fraudulent and should be treated as a criminal offense or when he goes on sending social media messages well into the wee hours.
This kind of change in a president was not discussed publicly in the past. But in the wide-open ethos of 21st-century social media, Scott, nothing seems out of bounds. So we have to begin seeing mentions of the 25th Amendment, which was enacted 60 years ago to set a formal procedure in situations that might arise if the president were incapacitated. And it's only been used in temporary situations up to now, such as the president undergoing surgery.
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