Re: #19. Spot on. What liberals don't seem to understand is that all laws (including the US Constitution) are merely pieces of paper unless they're enforced, and with the DOJ in the hands of facist crakpots it's foolish to expect that the law will protect us.
Political homelessness can be very exhausting, in a relentless, centuries-old, mindfucked kind of way. Rationalizations are self-serving. Thanks for the list, a healthy breath of clear air.
Thanks Paul. I'm surprised. I've heard all these too. It feels good to have you articulate and catalog them. And I have to say, I'm really struggling. Although, 12 days in, it's much worse than I first imagined, even *after* I'd told myself it was going to be worse than I imagined! It is in fact, un-imaginable! But I (I think) I can somehow manage to cope.
Where I'm *really* stuck is that my fellow citizens actually voted to put this fascist human abomination back in power. In 2016 I came around to giving tЯump voters the benefit of possibly not knowing who he was, even though you had to be utterly blind not to. But in 2024, *they knew first hand*, the gobsmacking ignorance, constant lies, blatant grift, vociferous 4th grade level midnight Tweets, malevolent cruelty, demented megalomania, and total narcissistic self-absorption of this severely damaged man. Yet they chose this insane aging dotard over an experienced, competent, uplifting *sane* woman. "Would you prefer the steak? ..or the reheated festering dog shit tonite, Mr. Voter?" As each was presented for their inspection, they chose to dine on dog shit! And ask for seconds! I can't bring myself to reconcile this. THIS is what 'Merica WANTS. Undeniably, this is who we are.. or at least a voting majority. (which is A LOT!)
Gore Vidal wrote about the US being a nation of amnesia. Yes, but not amnesia, collectively we are largely ignorant of history not simply forgetting it. What Paul makes clear is that we are collectively a nation of deniers of anything that disturbs individual peace and comfort. I lived in Latin America for many years and the first thing I recognized is the culture of comfort that is the US. When gross and lethal danger faces us, fhrow off this deep-seated comfort-seeking and wake up.
Re: #19. Spot on. What liberals don't seem to understand is that all laws (including the US Constitution) are merely pieces of paper unless they're enforced, and with the DOJ in the hands of facist crakpots it's foolish to expect that the law will protect us.
Political homelessness can be very exhausting, in a relentless, centuries-old, mindfucked kind of way. Rationalizations are self-serving. Thanks for the list, a healthy breath of clear air.
Thanks Paul. I'm surprised. I've heard all these too. It feels good to have you articulate and catalog them. And I have to say, I'm really struggling. Although, 12 days in, it's much worse than I first imagined, even *after* I'd told myself it was going to be worse than I imagined! It is in fact, un-imaginable! But I (I think) I can somehow manage to cope.
Where I'm *really* stuck is that my fellow citizens actually voted to put this fascist human abomination back in power. In 2016 I came around to giving tЯump voters the benefit of possibly not knowing who he was, even though you had to be utterly blind not to. But in 2024, *they knew first hand*, the gobsmacking ignorance, constant lies, blatant grift, vociferous 4th grade level midnight Tweets, malevolent cruelty, demented megalomania, and total narcissistic self-absorption of this severely damaged man. Yet they chose this insane aging dotard over an experienced, competent, uplifting *sane* woman. "Would you prefer the steak? ..or the reheated festering dog shit tonite, Mr. Voter?" As each was presented for their inspection, they chose to dine on dog shit! And ask for seconds! I can't bring myself to reconcile this. THIS is what 'Merica WANTS. Undeniably, this is who we are.. or at least a voting majority. (which is A LOT!)
So just where the hell do I go from here?
Gore Vidal wrote about the US being a nation of amnesia. Yes, but not amnesia, collectively we are largely ignorant of history not simply forgetting it. What Paul makes clear is that we are collectively a nation of deniers of anything that disturbs individual peace and comfort. I lived in Latin America for many years and the first thing I recognized is the culture of comfort that is the US. When gross and lethal danger faces us, fhrow off this deep-seated comfort-seeking and wake up.