The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(07-11-2021, 10:07 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(07-10-2021, 08:09 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(07-10-2021, 07:19 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I don't know. Do you have a theory on how such a fantasy could come to be?

I think the 'Shogun' technique seems the only one plausible.  When told there was no way the Emperor could be overthrown, the token western character had a reply.  You had to win a Civil War.

Trump is a coward. Expecting him to front a revolution is simply out of the question.  The only way that might change: if it was handed to him on a platter.  I'm not holding my breath.  I do see him running a grievance campaign in 2024, though.

Few people have a higher ratio of vice to virtue than does Donald Trump. At the least people holding miserable, low-paying jobs as fast-food workers are obliged to adopt humility as a survival skill. We all know how American plutocracy works: the only reason for human existence is to make someone already filthy-rich even more filthy-rich or to indulge that person's swinish behavior. "Life is a cabaret, old chum... come to the Cabaret"...  

Donald Trump has no courage, no self-control, no respect for objective truth or any tradition, no love of learning, and no ability to see the worth of other people except to the extent that they can make him richer or indulge his primitive, unrefined desires.  Just by watching a couple nights of PBS programming every week one can be far more sophisticated than he is. 

The older that I get and the more experiences that I have the more I recognize the ultimate purpose of a good education -- to come to the recognition that more exists in love than sex, intoxicants, mass low culture, material gain and indulgence, and bureaucratic power. Everyone will meet some desperate time in life, and this 



  

kept me from slashing my wrists or taking valium and vodka. No, Donald Trump was not yet President, although he would be in a half-year. The neoliberal era in which most people are obliged to suffer with a smile on behalf of some of the most swinish people around (it is no coincidence that George Orwell's fable has literal pigs expressing the failure of the ideal of barnyard animals taking over a farm with the pigs being more equal than the others). Although Donald Trump's system is not the old Soviet Union he reminds me in many ways of "Napoleon".

That this music exists is more arcane knowledge than is appropriate. It's an emotional rollercoaster taking an hour or so. A 'happy tune' in a Muzak-like arrangement would have been too superficial. It would be over in a few minutes and I would be depressed again. 

Life is a struggle, and it is more of a struggle for some than for others. With poverty that a neoliberal poverty depends upon for ensuring that economic elites can wallow in luxury, the struggle is hard and the rewards are slight. If one has any mental disorder or addiction, one has big troubles. If one cannot trust abusive, neglectful, or exploitative family members, then one has big trouble in relating to society as a whole. You might be surprised at the capacity of people who supposedly have everything to mess up their lives.   

I hope that one of the consequences of mass exposure to Donald Trump that people raise their children to be as unlike Donald Trump as is possible (short of being perhaps a serial rapist and killer like his contemporary Ted Bundy, also identified as an extreme narcissist). I question whether Donald Trump has ever been a happy person. Maybe part of the reward for some ill-paid struggles in life is that one learns to find some happiness in limited achievements that can reshape a life (as a substitute teacher my finest moment was to talk someone out of dropping out of school). 

Does Donald Trump know about this music? Are you kidding? That would take some humane learning! That would require one to develop some taste for catharsis (in the life-saving instance I needed catharsis). I have enjoyed more delight in taking pictures of scenic wonders of Michigan's Upper Peninsula (I regret to say that I lost the camera and -- worse -- the card on it). Ideally one feels good for doing good. That's socialization, folks.