2016: The National "Cry For Help"

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Quote:   Bad Dog

     

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       Something even more precious may be dying this year. American democracy.

   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/health...pe=article

   Here's why; We've lost hope. Hence, Trump.

   This is my demo: Educated, intelligent, experienced, and past 26.

Appropriate thread-starter. Demographics can dovetail with the generational cycle. I think that we can take have taken it there. But it is the middle-aged (early-wave X) and the 'young-old' and 'near-old' Boomers who either weren't born with silver spoons in their mouths or never latched onto the economic fast track who get to enter old age in a world that has suddenly become hostile to the prospects of old age.

Donald Trump offers me nothing but cause to dissent and perhaps develop some community among others who will be satisfied to "make America GOOD again". That of course is an America in which people care about each other instead of being at each others' throats like 'good' proles in a fantasy out of or inspired by Ayn Rand. (OK, Anthem is OK, and I encourage people to read it  as a logical sequel to 1984. But Anthem is less infused with the every-man-for-himself ethos. That is also an America that respects formal education instead of deriding it.

Dumb solutions are almost always the wrong solutions. Supporting Donald Trump is about as wise as taking up a cocaine habit.

I doubt whether I can fit into an America in which one must be an undemanding work-horse to survive. As a Boomer I have known the good times in American life. I at the least remember hearing Lost and GI (and the world for most GI young adults seems hardscrabble enough before at least the late 1930s) and some of their lessons. Formal education is far more fruitful than the School of Hard Knocks. You are your 'brother's keeper'. 'Fascism sucks' is an understatement.