I have no hope that our fuhrer will ever become convinced of anything that he doesn’t consider in his own immediate interests. He has hired advisers that are like him, more interested in their own careers than they are the welfare of the country or the world at large and won’t ever attempt to contradict him in his world of alternative facts. The King has no clothes, but none of his minions will ever tell him for fear of losing their careers.
More people will wake up to the rapid changes in climate as it affects them personally, but thsi is a slow awakening process and it may be too late by the time they demand good leadership. Snecki is right that these larger concerns are media driven. America can be driven into a frenzy about the most ridiculous things. In the meantime, the important stuff is left out of the news completely.
For the past 18 months or so, the American media has been Trump TV. He has dominated almost every minute of the 24 hour news cycle. Meanwhile, for example, Americans have learned nothing of the sharp right turn many European countries have made and don’t realize how this could affect them. They no nothing, nor are they interested in the fact that their greatest enemy, ISIS, has lost it’s main source of revenue in the oil fields of northern Iraq and now are being bombarded mercilessly in Syria. Few are aware that the polar ice caps have shrunk more in the past year than they have in the past five.
I’m not sure if there is conspiracy of some sort, an organized attempt to censor incoming information, but it sure doesn’t look accidental to me. I’m beginning to side with cazzie on this—another American living abroad who watches from afar while the people around her seem much more informed than the home country.