Wow! This is my favorite of all your newsletters so far! I say “so far” because I know you just keep getting better. I truly feel sorry for any US citizen who died in the recent past who might have believed the country was in the process of being lost. It must have been depressing for a person who experienced several decades of progress and change since they were born in the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s or 50’s. I think I still have 2 or maybe 3 decades left and I just have to believe I will see the United States rediscover and embrace our founding principles and values that make our country unique in the history of the civilized world.
I hope and pray you’re right. I am afraid the people or a good majority that feel for the con. Still are in the con. I ask people who I know voted for this “Please name one thing Biden has done so far that is good?” One person said “ He got us back in the Paris accord, got us back to the table with Iran!! “. Other crazy comments. Was Trump and egotistical loud mouth and other things? Sure, but I feel in my heart he loves this country.
Thanks, Mark, for explaining Potemkin village so well. A few weeks afterwards, I noticed the following article in a magazine.
The December 2021 issue of Reason Magazine has an article that references "Potemkin". In summary, Boris Yeltsin visited the US in September 1989 and made an unplanned stop at a grocery store in Houston. Yeltsin was amazed at the selections including fresh fish, cheese samples and abundant produce. Through an interpreter, he asked if this was a Potemkin grocery store. The interpreter informed him that it was all real and typical. Yeltsin later wrote that when he saw what was available to everyone in the USA, he felt "sick with despair for the Soviet People" upon seeing the contrast with grocery stores in the Soviet Union. He reportedly told other Russians on the trip that if Soviet citizens knew about US grocery stores "there would be a revolution".
Just a couple of years ago, we experienced incredible shortages of toilet paper and paper towels, etc. For several weeks, the shelves were empty of those products in most stores. On a few occasions, I commented to a fellow shopper "This situation gives us an insight into what daily life was like in the Soviet Union"
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Wow! This is my favorite of all your newsletters so far! I say “so far” because I know you just keep getting better. I truly feel sorry for any US citizen who died in the recent past who might have believed the country was in the process of being lost. It must have been depressing for a person who experienced several decades of progress and change since they were born in the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s or 50’s. I think I still have 2 or maybe 3 decades left and I just have to believe I will see the United States rediscover and embrace our founding principles and values that make our country unique in the history of the civilized world.
I hope and pray you’re right. I am afraid the people or a good majority that feel for the con. Still are in the con. I ask people who I know voted for this “Please name one thing Biden has done so far that is good?” One person said “ He got us back in the Paris accord, got us back to the table with Iran!! “. Other crazy comments. Was Trump and egotistical loud mouth and other things? Sure, but I feel in my heart he loves this country.
Reads to me as a “ya know what ya aughta think” diatribe of an angry man.
Thanks, Mark, for explaining Potemkin village so well. A few weeks afterwards, I noticed the following article in a magazine.
The December 2021 issue of Reason Magazine has an article that references "Potemkin". In summary, Boris Yeltsin visited the US in September 1989 and made an unplanned stop at a grocery store in Houston. Yeltsin was amazed at the selections including fresh fish, cheese samples and abundant produce. Through an interpreter, he asked if this was a Potemkin grocery store. The interpreter informed him that it was all real and typical. Yeltsin later wrote that when he saw what was available to everyone in the USA, he felt "sick with despair for the Soviet People" upon seeing the contrast with grocery stores in the Soviet Union. He reportedly told other Russians on the trip that if Soviet citizens knew about US grocery stores "there would be a revolution".
Just a couple of years ago, we experienced incredible shortages of toilet paper and paper towels, etc. For several weeks, the shelves were empty of those products in most stores. On a few occasions, I commented to a fellow shopper "This situation gives us an insight into what daily life was like in the Soviet Union"
Yep! Too true. will appear in my next https://joed205.blogspot.com/
Sitting with R&R.... dad loves this article and wants on your mailing list!
Hey Amy! Renato can just Google "Substack Mark Trumble " and subscribe. He'll also have access to the archive of all of the posts. I'm happy he approves!
It's going to be a good day!! We are waking up!