{"id":4231,"date":"2019-02-21T12:19:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T11:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2019-02-21T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T12:45:15","slug":"jesse-jackson-cautions-regarding-future-danger-janis-joplins-telling-observation-on-human-perceptions-of-time-robert-habeck-on-amitav-ghosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4231","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson cautions regarding future danger, Janis Joplin&#8217;s telling observation on human perceptions of time, Robert Habeck on Amitav Ghosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/02\/21\/trumps-fake-national-emergency-moves-america-closer-to-an-autocracy\/\">Jesse Jackson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Trump\u2019s decision to [outrage of the day] triggers a crisis for our Constitution and our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>This is no longer about the shameless lies, exaggerations and slanders that the president has trotted out \u2026. It\u2019s no longer about wasting billions of dollars\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 now poses a fundamental challenge to our democracy: [current fundamental challenge]. This is the line between a constitutional republic and a presidential autocracy\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>This is no exaggeration\u2026. If [uncrossable line of the moment is crossed] a chilling precedent will be set.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026. But what will stand in the way of a willful president?<\/p>\n<p>\u2026. If the Senate folds and the courts roll over, we will be well on our way to an elected autocracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026. a direct assault on our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Now we will see who stands with the Constitution, and who does not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Janis Joplin:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4231-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Janis-Joplin-same-fucking-day.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Janis-Joplin-same-fucking-day.mp3\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Janis-Joplin-same-fucking-day.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<blockquote><p>Ghoshs These ist, dass etwas, das so gro\u00df ist wie der fundamentale Wandel unserer nat\u00fcrlichen Umwelt, das sprachliche Darstellungsverm\u00f6gen \u00fcbersteigt.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Robert Habeck, <em>Wer wir sein k\u00f6nnten<\/em>, (K\u00f6ln: Verlag Kiepenheuer &amp; Witsch, 2018), 119.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it was while reading Wolin in 2015 that I first noticed American authors writing about the end of US democracy always use the future tense, and over the last three or more years I&#8217;ve seen this as a failure in perception, but I think Habeck on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitavghosh.com\/\">Ghosh&#8217;s insight<\/a> with regards to climate change is applicable here as well, and the limit is one imposed by the language commentators find accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Jackson: President Trump\u2019s decision to [outrage of the day] triggers a crisis for our Constitution and our democracy. This is no longer about the shameless lies, exaggerations and slanders that the president has trotted out \u2026. It\u2019s no longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4231\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}