Culture: American Politics and Visits Asia

culture: It also points to the withering of civic attachments, the undoing of civic culture, the decline of public life, the erosion of any sense of shared citizenship and the death of commanding visions, according to Toronto Star. As he visits Asia this week in a trip that those in the White House, as usual, feared could careen spectacularly off the rails, the world will once again witness how Trump's history of unabashed racism and politics of hate is transformed into a spectacle of fear, divisions and disinformation. His ascendancy in American politics has made visible a culture of cruelty, a contempt for civic literacy, a corrupt mode of governance and a disdain for informed judgment that has been decades in the making. Under Trump, the plague of mid-20th century authoritarianism and apocalyptic populism has returned in a unique American form. Article Continued Below How could a liberal society give up its ideals so quickly What forces have undermined education to the extent that a relatively informed electorate allowed such a catastrophe to happen in an alleged democracy George Orwell's ignorance is strength motto in 1984 has materialized in the Trump administration's attempts not only to rewrite history, but also to obliterate it. A year later, people in Asia and the rest of the world are watching, pondering how such a dreadful event and retreat from democracy could have taken place. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.