Quick to jump to conclusions. Trump was not in my mind when I wrote the post, which are thoughts I'd had when GWB was riding roughshod over the middle east and the US economy. The association between the Abrahamic opponents has deepened significantly for over a decade.Walker wrote:Trump is likely elevating to a prominent place in many mythologies. Boogyman, savior, caliph, grand wazoo. A few years ago Progs were sneering at the idea of a caliph. Now, the caliph is Trump. Go figure. In classic self-sabotage mode the targets awaken to and legitimize the paradigm of a fundy mythology hell-bent on the apocalyptic destruction, the invalidation with extreme prejudice, of the other.Greta wrote:We are inevitably influenced by the company we keep, and that includes those we fight.
We can hardly be influenced by those whose ideas we are not exposed to, can we?
The US has been hanging around the "slums" of the world and allowed itself to be dragged into the gutter.
Muslims have now been the US's main focus and the influence of Islam on the US is becoming ever more plain, with an increasing number of fundamentalists with views very similar to those of Muslims. Moral of the story: be careful what you focus on because that's the influence you have chosen to take on, knowingly or not.