"you will not be beaten"

it has always been a violent country born of a western culture that has an inherent violence ingrained from its roots...there has already been one civil war here...and i was reflecting on trump's clear incitement of an obvious uptick in that inherent violence and i flashed on slobodan milosevic telling kosovar serbs "you will not be beaten"...milosevic use the kosovar serbs as a vehicle to promote serbian nationalism over a yugoslav identity in the central committee of the serbian communist party...once he gained the support of that committee and put serbian nationalism at the front of the agenda the other constituents ( croatia, montenegro, etc ) were forced to wither accept or reject serbian prominence in the country...that was roundly rejected and the state broke up into its constituent parts with al the resulting violence...

which thrust him to prominence and was a marker along the road to the dissolution of yugoslavia...none of which especially ended well...and now we seem to have a president saying "you will not be beaten" to a group of people who have always been here but have had to "go to ground" in the face of a society trying to be more at ease with diversity...privileging white nationalism as the nationalism of the country over a more inclusive and diverse identity...and using that malevolent base to spew out his own twisted disdain for...near as i can tell...everyone but donald trump...looking around i find i am not the first to make this connection...as pleased as i am to have found it on my own i see it was made early on in this non-presidential presidency by a number of people...that this has significant potential to end "not especially well" should be obvious...what i find myself asking myself is who ( and here i mean in the halls of government ans specifically the whores in the senate )...beyond the fore mention malevolent base...is accommodating themselves to this vileness...and why? personal gain leaps to mind and no one in washington is shy about money...none of them will retire like pepe mujica...government" of the people, by the people, and for the people" has always been a shiny lie...if nothing else the last twenty years or so should have illuminated the oligarchical nature of american "democracy"...it should also be manifestly clear that the likelihood of the senate, in its current configuration, convicting an impeached trump is exceptionally slim...and ever increasing violence could lead to another civil war...or it could be the reichstag fire and suspended elections in 2020...or...it might just be "business as usual" in the west while the orient waits to see what happens to the barbarians...slobo the second has arrived as the decline of the "american century" accelerates and the confused fringe looks for answers as the nationalist indoctrination they have been inculcated with continues to shift farther out of sync with the realities of the new direction of geopolitics...one wonders which identity will ultimately be chosen.