Big Lies

[Eric the Green]

(12-17-2016, 11:14 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(12-17-2016, 02:27 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(12-17-2016, 01:24 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(12-17-2016, 02:32 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Donald Trump's America will make many of us regret being Americans.

Being 'butt hurt' and disliking it is a normal response to being paddled.... most of us will be raped financially on behalf of the cronies of a ruthless elitist. The best that anyone can do when not working more hours  for much less is to numb oneself with stupefying media and drink. I do not know whether I could survive the four years of Donald Trump because I am young enough to think but too old to be a workhorse. I am not sure that I will have any desire to live in the new, vile America.

One will have to be very rich or very stupid to like Trump's glitzy, mindless, soulless world. There will be plenty of dissidents, probably because we Americans are unaccustomed to any form of tyranny. OK, being from a Communist state or such a nightmare as Pinochet's Chile... or if one is old enough, being black in Kukluxistan.

Profits will not be turned into job-creating plant and equipment in America. They will most likely be spent on palaces and castles whose only job-creating characteristics once built is that they will need battalions of domestic staff (dirt-cheap, of course) to staff them.

The best advice to those who have no choice except to remain is to keep the means of ending it all readily available. It will be that bad. Some of us are just not made for a mindless, joyless world in which 'love' means little more than the willingness to suffer for something awful. Maybe we can find some meaning in life by protests and demonstrations. Using one's mind will be itself a subversive activity perhaps more subversive than burning a US flag or defacing the image of the Great and Infallible Leader.

No one has been forced to stay here. We all have the freedom to leave here. How many Americans have a true  interest in ruling someone like you?

Getting around within the United States is easy. Relocating is costly. Becoming an expatriate requires that one have very specific skills.

It helps to be cash-rich and object-poor, which American middle-class people rarely are anymore. Dollars are the most marketable of commodities available. Antique furniture isn't so financially liquid. Selling a house? Lots of luck outside of the hot real estate markets. For many people their most valuable asset is a car.

Now what do you find so wonderful about a "mindless, joyless world in which 'love' means little more than the willingness to suffer for something awful?" Why should people find such to be  a good thing?

I expect Donald Trump's America unspeakably offensive -- hierarchical, repressive, inequitable, vulgar, and stupefying. Maybe even dangerous. That's what one gets when the Leader has no virtues.

My most valuable tools are all vehicles of some sort. I've spent the bulk of my life making the types of decisions that either avoid suffering or sharply reduces the amount of time that must be spent suffering. I don't know what gives the impression that I come from/represent a mindless, joyless world that's focused/fixated more on suffering than love.

The things you do in your personal life are not in question, such as your heating business if I remember correctly. Your intentions and how you live your life is not for me to judge; in any case it's probably fine. It's just that you represent (or are an example here of) those in America who vote for a joyless, mindless world fixated on more suffering than love. It's the issue of what ideology and candidates you support. That's not really, necessarily, a personal issue. It's about the attitudes that shape your political behavior. No doubt, when it comes to your personal life, your political and cultural attitudes are probably a relatively small part of it. But there's no question about what you vote for: a mindless, joyless world that creates more suffering is as apt a description as any of what you vote for and advocate.

Government policies have consequences. The consequences of Republican policies are: mindless, joyless worlds of more suffering.