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Will Americans Be Able to Prove Konrad Adenauer Was Wrong?

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Americans' election of a man like Donald Trump as their president twice reminds me of the late West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's lament: "God limited the intelligence of man but did not also limit his stupidity." Germans proved their beloved and revered Konrad Adenauer was wrong when they forced the Berlin Wall to fall in November 1989. Will Americans become welleducated and wise enough to prove Adenauer was wrong by demolishing America's 'Berlin Wall'a plutocracy pretending to be a democracy? Or will many of them remain stultified by what Mark Twain called "three kinds of lies" (or a paraphrased version-"lies, damned lies, and dissembling") and continue to align only with either MAGA's Coca-Cola or Democratic Party's Diet Coke? If they remain so, they will most likely slit the throat of American democracy in the act of "democide," foreboding the demise of American civilization.

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Title: Will Americans Be Able to Prove Konrad Adenauer Was Wrong?

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Americans' election of a man like Donald Trump as their president twice reminds me of the late West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's lament: "God limited the intelligence of man but did not also limit his stupidity.

" Germans proved their beloved and revered Konrad Adenauer was wrong when they forced the Berlin Wall to fall in November 1989.

Will Americans become welleducated and wise enough to prove Adenauer was wrong by demolishing America's 'Berlin Wall'a plutocracy pretending to be a democracy? Or will many of them remain stultified by what Mark Twain called "three kinds of lies" (or a paraphrased version-"lies, damned lies, and dissembling") and continue to align only with either MAGA's Coca-Cola or Democratic Party's Diet Coke? If they remain so, they will most likely slit the throat of American democracy in the act of "democide," foreboding the demise of American civilization.

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