11-12-2016, 12:14 AM
(11-11-2016, 11:47 PM)taramarie Wrote: Check this out guys. This is a message a former first wave 4T member just posted on the issue of tribalism and no communication/listening. Remember Matthew Elmslie? This is his message.
"I follow someone on Twitter who is strongly advocating that if you know someone who voted Trump, cut them out of your life completely and immediately. Doesn't matter if it's your dying mother; cut off all contact with no warning. And I actually do get that. But I can't see myself actually doing it. Not that we get a lot of Trump voters up here."
That is unfair.
In view of the people Donald Trump has been selecting for his administration, I can assure you that working people who voted for him will be the first to feel betrayed. Never trust right-wingers who pretend to be friends of the working man. They always turn on the worker in favor of his boss and the owner of his workplace. Donal;d Trump will lshow himself as a firm believer in a pure, dehumanized plutocracy.
Many who voted for him are going to hate him. Those voters did not believe that they would be victims of his ideology.
Unite them with liberals and there might be some chance for Donald Trump to be a one-term President succeeded by someone more to the Left. That is the only hope for the restoration of democracy in America without a revolution or a change imposed from elsewhere.
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.