Martina Navratilova: uncertainty

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…. . . and a history of fascism and authoritarianism. I was born in the United States. When I look at what’s happening now, I tend to view it more as recreating a version of late 19th-century politics, where things are very partisan and wild, and leaders make different kinds of irresponsible decisions or have strange rhetoric by, say, the standards of the ’80s or the ’90s. How convinced are you that that kind of Eastern European authoritarian lens is the right way to think about what’s happening in America today? Because that’s how Trump got elected. It is very similar to that. I don’t understand this fear. We’re supposed to be land of the brave. Free, yes? Brave? But fear is what drives people to make these decisions. I had therapy long time ago. The therapist said, “You don’t ever make decisions based on fear because you make wrong decisions.” But that’s how people are voting, based on fear so much. I don’t know what we’re afraid of because nothing bad has really happened in this country since the Civil War. You really think about it. Pearl Harbor, yes, horrible, awful, but compare that to what went on in China, Communist countries, of course all the wars in Europe, World War I, World War II, Korean War. Compare that to that and there’s no comparison. We have not really been touched, yet we’re so scared here. Of what? I don’t understand that. It’s like this manufactured fear. Then people are just blind. They make these decisions on emotions rather than rational thinking. What’s your ideal trip to Africa? Describe that for us and why it appeals to you.…

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