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The Only Test That Matters
Why each one of us will soon face the ultimate moral choice
For the last eighty years, people in the West have been able to sleepwalk through their lives undisturbed by any real challenges. The longest period of peace and prosperity since the collapse of the Roman Empire fifteen hundred years ago lifted tens of millions out of poverty and technological progress made everything safer and easier for everyone. The biggest challenges most people faced in their lives were relatively trivial, such as what job to aspire to and with whom to partner. Even most setbacks were trivial: the loss of a job and income, the loss of a partner, perhaps illness or injury. A few unfortunate people suffered the loss of a child or a sibling, but these were rare occurrences. And even with these rare unhappy events, no moral choice was required.
Today everything has changed.
The vermin Trump is rapidly destroying every single thing the Western world has depended on for its security and prosperity and is intentionally ushering in a new Age of Tyrants. Fascism is the philosophy of violence: the strong have every right to do whatever they want to those who can’t defend themselves. The bloated mental cripple Trump is, due to his personal inadequacies, drawn to fascism as are so many weak people. He imagines himself sitting at High Table…
