US President Trump has described the fork that America faces. If Democratic candidate Biden, whom he called a puppet of the left, wins in November, "the markets will collapse and our cities will be burned." The "fake news" (CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, etc.) also leads to this - "they are trying to portray the protesters in Portland and Seattle as wonderful and innocent people. But in reality they are sick, mentally unbalanced anarchists and agitators, who must be controlled by our law enforcement agencies. "

But soon, in the fall, a new, happy time will come: "We will soon defeat the virus and move on to a golden age - better than ever before!"

And the features of such a century in his "Metamorphoses" were described by Ovid:

“The first sown was the golden age, which knew no retribution,

He himself always observed, without laws, both truth and loyalty.

There were no helmets, swords, military exercises without knowing,

The people living safely enjoyed the sweet peace.

It was spring forever; pleasant with cool breath,

Flowers that did not know sowing tenderly didn’t live on the air.

Without resting, the fields were golden in heavy ears,

Rivers flowed milk, rivers flowed nectar,

Dripping and golden honey, oozing from the green oak.

The only difference is that the Roman poet attributed the golden age to the mythological past, and the more optimistic US president to the end of 2020.

However, what should he do? Democracy in America lies in the fact that in the last three months before the presidential elections, candidates do not hesitate in terms of expression or fantasy. Now is just the beginning, in the coming months it will be even worse.

There is only a nuance. An opposition candidate should primarily denounce the current government and promise to crush Nebuchadnezzar. Which is what Biden does, although his advances and infirmities make it difficult for him to appear before the public as a mighty crusher.

Whereas the current ruler says that life has become better with him, life has become more fun, and if he wins the elections, it will become even more fun. In 1957, British (though not American, but a political relative) Prime Minister Macmillan campaigned under the slogan "You've never lived so well." Trump is following the pattern.

Skeptics might say that when COVID is still raging, and caring Americans are taking to the streets en masse and doing God knows what, this is a rather original prerequisite for the imminent offensive of the general harmonium.

“In the ruins that were called the parliamentary chamber,

How joyous the cry of free blacks will be!

How fun it will be to crush the remains of the statues

And make fires from endless books "-

maybe there is a homespun truth in this. She is lean and homespun. But in order to wait in these conditions for the speedy onset of the golden age, in which “Sweet people can taste the peace of safely living”, you need to be a great optimist.

Of course, the United States has a large margin of safety. But the USSR in 1985, although it was wrongly tailored, but tightly sewn together, and many, not being fans of the Soviet power, marveled at how it was possible to destroy this system in three years.

By 1988, perestroika had become completely unmanageable. But in comparison with what is now being offered in the Democratic Party, M.S. Gorbachev is a moderate conservative. So, perhaps, the speeches of Publius Ovid Trump about the golden age have the meaning that the problem-free current existence of the United States will seem like a golden age compared to what the Democrats can do.

If we talk about the prosperity that Trump promises in the event of his victory, then there is a question to which there is no unequivocal answer. How to explain that, in spite of various unfavorable prerequisites, stock prices are climbing up like turpentine?

Either the resources of the American economy are such that you can't take it with dust and it is ready to show the world an economic miracle of unprecedented strength. Either she is preparing to show the world how a stock exchange bubble of unprecedented strength is bursting.

We'll find out in December.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.