In a city still bearing the emotional scars of the death of George Floyd only a few short years ago, tragedy strikes again. And again. And again. Chaos descends upon the streets, wearing masks and mandated by the King of the country: a spineless, orange blob of fat, spewing lies and filling his pockets while claiming he's doing everything for the good of his country.
The cult of MAGA refuses to acknowledge reality and cover their ears while chanting their mantra: "fake news, fake news, fake news..." and they expect the world to do the same. So let me walk you through my take on why I think that all this is a perfect example of life imitating art.
It all starts with Equilibrium, a not so distant future where everything that's viewed as potentially eliciting an emotional response is banned/burned/destroyed. But it's not really about the emotions, is it, though? It's about knowledge, it's about history and not repeating it. The same is happening in the US for years now, books being banned from schools and libraries, because they present all sorts of point of views, effectively censuring what people have the right to know or read.
Then it escalates to the Handmaid's tale, where (fertile) women no longer have rights or indeed control over their bodies, but they become mere incubators for the rich and powerful, in a patriarchal society that drives their own citizens to seek refuge in neighboring states like Canada, all while being in a sort of Cold war with the rest of the world, but especially with Europe. Under the current administration, women's rights have taken hit after hit and their abortion rights have been curtailed or obliterated. We were literally on the verge of a full-blown war between NATO (but mostly the EU countries) and the US (which is a founding member, FFS!) and celebrities and even regular Americans have started "jumping ship" to countries where the rule of law applies to rich and poor alike, so you draw your own conclusions about how far-fetched that future is.
And we get to today, with the often-mentioned George Orwell's 1984. Where the state tells you not to believe your eyes when you watch videos of a non-armed, non-threatening woman, on her way back from dropping her kid at school that gets gunned down in the street by masked men that show absolutely no remorse, or when you see a man like Alex Pretti filming masked men that shove people down on their face in the snow and when he tries to intervene, he gets pepper sprayed, jumped by half a dozen other thugs and ultimately executed with about a dozen shots fired by multiple persons. No, it's your eyes and ALL the eye witnesses that are lying and not the Pathological Liar in Chief and his fascist minions. And no, it's not 1984, it's 2026 and it's Minneapolis, under ICE occupation, funded by DHS, emboldened by their ice-Barbie and her orange King.
Finally, if nothing changes drastically and soon, we (EU and the rest of the world) will watch Civil War live, but not eating popcorn, but rather by counting our blessings that we do not live in a country that allowed itself to plunge into this abyss of chaos pushed by the will of one man unchecked by his entourage, the Congress, the justice system, or even by his own citizens that have the ultimate power to topple tyrants such as him.
Wake up, America and smell the shit in his diaper before you find yourselves ripped apart from within, or get your affairs in order and prepare for what's coming. And make no mistake, it's about to get a whole lot worse!
PS: don't count on him leaving office in 3 years either. If he actually lives that long, he won't go without a fight because he has too much to lose: money from corrupt schemes, the power that he covets so much and probably the most important, his freedom, for all the criminal acts he's committed before and during his years of presidency.
RIP to all the heroes that give their lives to protect their freedom and rights and RIP to democracy and rule of law in America.


