Giuliani is simply human, and that behavior follows. The core of what happened is within us all.
He came from a time before modern media eliminated the bubbles of each separate locality and how individual people came across, experienced, and thought about things. A diverse nation of patriots who were taught and raised in the rule of law... most of them followed it and or at least justified their actions under it. Both that and science were somewhat adhered to by individual people across this nation, even if parties and interests did not. People were still coming from separate backgrounds. Most started off innocent and had to be corrupted. What united us was their education, their indoctrination as American citizens meant they were raised a certain way. It was a trust in the American system.
But to be raised does not result in a final product. An innocent youth does not necessarily last, as we humans are held together by faith. And only faith. You would know it by another word. Trust. And that trust can change, it can be misplaced or corrupted. What was once a diverse yet common American foundation... has since been entirely erased and replaced by party dogma.
24/7 news entered the world like a disease. It slowly erodes and erases individuality and diverse localities. Not physically, but mentally. The space of ideas in this nation shrank until there were just two clubs you could belong to. What it meant to be a Democrat or a Republican shrank to a checklist that had to be marked off. So fuck the law and fuck science, my sports team is going to win! Humans are biologically tribal, religious, zealots. It's just that sometimes the tribe you identify with... the people you trust... were decent and honest American educators and role models. Not anymore, those people are supplanted by party dogs. They bark and you follow.
That is what Fox News existed for. But it got worse with social media. Far worse. Now our parties exist beyond the filter of journalistic ethos, simple professionalism or even an aimed agenda. Now our dogma is just pure madness derived from the masses, spurred on by the desire to belong and the abundance of self aggrandizement your cell phone provides every minute of every day. It is poison to the mind, and to some degree every single human is a victim of this disease. We have sickened ourselves and corrupted countless in the process.
What North Korea and Russia are... is simply human. They are us, and before long you will come to recognize it in ourselves as our decent unto madness continues unabated.
If you doubt it, look at your opponent and ask yourself how you feel about them. What they want. And if you would truly allow it.
That is a civil discourse that has come to an end, a political system that no longer exists in any practical form. Society is an off the rails train still sliding along...
The peace you enjoy is a temporary respite afforded to us by sheer momentum, but our trajectory is.... uhh... far less than civil.
You only need look at the ghoul of this subject for proof of that. The madness he suffered and spread like a disease is only growing worse. And he wasn't the problem, just another victim of how we communicate. Fix it? That's like saying you're going to contain COVID. Far too late for that. The idea that we cannot live with each other is already cemented in our heads. And there is no person born free of the disease of madness we continue to spread, fresh minds are corrupted every day - there is no one that is going to stop it. No way to do so. Hard divisions have formed, the pot of boiling, and we're all just sitting around waiting for the spark.
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