11-14-2016, 05:41 AM
(11-14-2016, 03:10 AM)Galen Wrote:(11-14-2016, 02:12 AM)taramarie Wrote: I also have been wondering what is the cause for him panicking about his career options and what it has to do with Trump. I wish he would explain why he thinks it has anything to do with Trump.
Its a bad case of cognitive dissonance so logic, reason and evidence don't matter to the person suffering this. If anything Trump has always been clear about trying to improve the conditions of the average American. No way to know if he will be successful but the status quo is simply not working. When that happens, a course change is in order and Hillary was not that.
I am here because my parents moved back to the hick town where they lived as children when I was unemployed... and I have since ended up as a caretaker for them. Now that they are gone I am stuck with an emptiness in a place that I outgrew every way but financially. The money is gone, and I am 60 with Asperger's - practically unemployable, and then only in jobs that are a travesty of a living. I wish I had the chance to do otherwise -- but that's how undiagnosed Asperger's works. It truly messes up the life of someone who has all sorts of raw ability, like me.
In Donald Trump I see a reckless, cruel, selfish leader who gets angry easily and turns to brutality when he does not get his way. In Congress we have people who believe that the other party is simply to obey the winners. One election, one time decides everything indefinitely. Life is to be nothing but sacrifice on behalf of the super-rich, the only people who matter.
Yes, I understand that many who voted for Trump thought that they were voting against an elite that they saw and thought hostile -- the Middle Class that does not appreciate country music, reality TV, and ultimate sports, who thinks that auto racing is a bore, and laughs at covers of the great bastion of journalism sold at grocery checkouts. People who shout "Jail Hillary! exemplify the American equivalent of the "Two-Minute Hate" from 1984. Don't fool yourself. It isn't going to change. Those people who thought the Middle Class was bad are going to find out what evil is.
As a liberal with a conscience I expect to find myself increasingly alien in the country in which I was born. Many people have done what some of our ancestors did, taking off from places where they felt alien in their country because of their religion or their political view and going to America where those did one no harm. I may need to do the inverse.
So the common man must work harder and pay harsher taxes on behalf of the Master Class whose indulgence and power is the new measure of a right to get what it wants. Make America Great Again? As in the Gilded Age? With a norm of 70-hour workweeks and 40-year lifespans for industrial workers? Without old-age insurance or disability insurance? Without welfare? All so that elites can wax even fatter? So what are we to find as comfort? A religion that tells us that only in return for unqualified obedience to God's Law (including some prescribed political choices) we might get into Heaven but for any slip-up even in voting we go to Hell?
I would reject that religion, an earthly Hell in itself.
Of course I belong elsewhere. Suffer with a smile -- that is out of my character. Even I can't keep that act up.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.