Der amerikanische Historiker Timothy Snyder spart nicht mit harten Worten über die Zustände in und der USA. Und ich zitiere das im April, geschrieben und veröffentlicht wurde Timothy Snyders Artikel schon vor zwie Monaten, also im Februar.
America exists because its people elect those who make and execute laws. The assumption of a democracy is that individuals have dignity and rights that they realize and protect by acting together. The people who now dominate the executive branch of the government deny all of this, and are acting, quite deliberately, to destroy the nation. For them, only a few people, the very wealthy with a certain worldview, have rights, and the first among these is to dominate. For them, there is no such thing as an America, or Americans, or democracy, or citizens, and they act accordingly. […] The federal government has immense capacity and control over trillions of dollars. That power was a cocreation of the American people. It belongs to them. The oligarchs around Trump are working now to take it for themselves.
Timothy Snyder
Und was hat das, werden sich aufmerksame Leserinnen und Leser fragen, mit dem Titel dieses Beitrags zu tun? Timothy Snyder vergleicht den momentanen Zustand der USA mit einer, nun ja, etwas zwielichtigen Auto-Werkstatt, die so gar nicht erledigt, was man als Besitzerin oder Besitzer eines Autos bestellt und erwartet hat.
Think of the federal government as a car. You might have thought that the election was like getting the car serviced. Instead, when you come into the shop, the mechanics, who somehow don’t look like mechanics, tell you that they have taken the parts of your car that work and sold them and kept the money. And that this was the most efficient thing to do. And that you should thank them.
Timothy Snyder
Da kann ich noch so viele Emojis verwenden, die Sache wird nicht bunt.