From TimesNow:
"The main trigger right now is the Iranian rial's dramatic fall. Since the short but devastating war with Israel in June, the currency has lost about 60 percent of its value, as per a report from the Associated Press."
Iran's current theocratic dictator is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and it looks like all he knows is violence in response. I have been hoping that the Iranian people would overthrow these toxic, dangerous religious zealots for decades now, and perhaps it will finally happen.
But this also tells Americans something important. Although I have been horrified by the fascistic destruction of the American Constitution and democratic guard rails designed to prevent the rule of a wanabe king, what really upsets Americans is the economy and their personal lives - not that many seem to share my horror at the incipient fascism.
But, as Iran shows, what brings a movement to overthrow a tyranny is when the people cannot afford to live. When their lives become too painful to continue to accept.
I don't see America rising up in the streets to overthrow the MAGA/Oligarchic/Theocratic tyranny being attempted to be installed to end our Constitutional Democratic Republic. But I do see American voters rising up and throwing out the astonishingly incompetent, ideologically blinded, corrupt MAGAs out of office in 2026. Making life too expensive to live will be seen more and more as the terrible economic policies of Trump and MAGA become more and more obvious.
One can have reason for hope.
