I fear we may have a second civil war coming, regardless of the outcome of the election.
I fear we may have a second civil war coming, regardless of the outcome of the election.
I was just talking to my son in Portland and it sounds like a bunch of Trump "patriots" are going to counter protest this weekend. If it's anything like it has been they'll be armed and plowing through people in their trucks.Something's going to happen, that much is for sure.
I was just talking to my son in Portland and it sounds like a bunch of Trump "patriots" are going to counter protest this weekend. If it's anything like it has been they'll be armed and plowing through people in their trucks.
Natural selection in action.I think this does an excellent job of illustrating the current state of America right now.
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The home-school movement is growing because people think the evil liberals have taken over schools and are teaching their kids to hate Jesus and America. And the people doing the home schooling are NOT our best and brightest, obviously given the nonsensical reasons for doing it. A generation of poorly-educated children who will have to attend for-profit colleges like those in league with Betsy DeVos.
The funny thing is that the only person I know who home schools is very bright and very liberal. She’s done an amazing job with her children.
I live for the day that Betsy fades back into anonymity.
All the homeschooled people I know had bachelors' by age 18 and double doctorates by 25. They aren't even too awkward socially (not more than me...). But obviously they are also extreme outliers.The funny thing is that the only person I know who home schools is very bright and very liberal. She’s done an amazing job with her children.
I live for the day that Betsy fades back into anonymity.
I just got a Biden sign and put it in my yard and I’m feeling so much better.
(Yes, I got a backup sign as well.)
I thought maybe the folks in PRSI were part of a radical wing of conservatives. Sadly, I think these are common points of view. How many millions of Americans believe baseless conspiracy theories? We are becoming the dumbest country in the world, with about 40% of the population believing many things that are easily proven false.
The home-school movement is growing because people think the evil liberals have taken over schools and are teaching their kids to hate Jesus and America. And the people doing the home schooling are NOT our best and brightest, obviously given the nonsensical reasons for doing it. A generation of poorly-educated children who will have to attend for-profit colleges like those in league with Betsy DeVos.
China will be the dominant power because the Republican party, Fox, and Facebook are apparently more harmful than communism.
Trump is actually walking talking stereotype of an american in the views of my country of origin. Tall, fat, under-informed, overly confident, aggressively ignorant with an upbringing of privilege deeply conflated with personal quality. I used to explain that this is a very limited perception, but I think this became pointless exercise since Trump.
The shorthand for what you're describing is The Ugly American. And yeah, it was hard enough to get non-Americans to like us when George W. Bush was president, never mind Trump. I'm sorry to say that on the whole it's an image that is deserved and something Americans abroad have to live down. The burden is on us to prove we're not uneducated boors.
There are a whole lot more Americans putting Trump up on a pedestal than I had ever dreamed possible. Some of them probably see and celebrate themselves in how he speaks and acts, and some of them even now may have started to live vicariously through him as they watch the never ending reality show he puts on for them.
The lives of some of Trump's rally followers (as interviewed and seen in videos etc) do strike me as a weird cross between the Stockholm syndrome and Walter Mitty.
If I had a dollar for every time I've read of something Trump said, did or tweeted that I was pretty sure would be the end of his political career --even before he was somehow the F elected!!-- I could upgrade from my iPad Pro to a top of line newer model by now and have $$$ left over.
But the beat goes on. I am so appalled and so alienated by it all. I lived shoulder to shoulder with daily random selections of the millions Americans in NYC for 35 years, had my disappointing moments with a few here and there, but never spent time with people as consistently boorish, selfish, thuggish or just plain delusional as this President. And to say that about NYC in the late 1970s, just for instance... is really saying something.
I never thought enough fellow Americans would find Donald Trump a suitable leader. I still don't. That is not what they're about in celebrating him. It's something else. He's the sort you make room for on the train because your gut just tells you he's a wrong guy. I swear we have a whole lotta folks in the USA living vicariously, celebrating the apparently exhilarating feeling of being a really wrong guy.
OK so this rant belongs over in Arkham. The mods are free to move it if they're still standing.
Harlan Ellison used to refer to these people as the boobgioisie...ignorant fools who think of themselves as rebels and avatars of "real America" vs. those high-falutin' people with college degrees. It varies by era. Remember the nitwits who used to complain about Birkenstock-wearing, Volvo-driving liberals? Whatever happened to those guys? Whatever it was, they've been replaced by spoiled brats who act like they still think it's funny to draw on the walls and poop on the living room floor, who've blossomed from social media with their maturity stunted, their opinions fully formed and a congenital aversion to facts.There are a whole lot more Americans putting Trump up on a pedestal than I had ever dreamed possible. Some of them probably see and celebrate themselves in how he speaks and acts, and some of them even now may have started to live vicariously through him as they watch the never ending reality show he puts on for them.
The lives of some of Trump's rally followers (as interviewed and seen in videos etc) do strike me as a weird cross between the Stockholm syndrome and Walter Mitty.
If I had a dollar for every time I've read of something Trump said, did or tweeted that I was pretty sure would be the end of his political career --even before he was somehow the F elected!!-- I could upgrade from my iPad Pro to a top of line newer model by now and have $$$ left over.
But the beat goes on. I am so appalled and so alienated by it all. I lived shoulder to shoulder with daily random selections of the millions Americans in NYC for 35 years, had my disappointing moments with a few here and there, but never spent time with people as consistently boorish, selfish, thuggish or just plain delusional as this President. And to say that about NYC in the late 1970s, just for instance... is really saying something.
I never thought enough fellow Americans would find Donald Trump a suitable leader. I still don't. That is not what they're about in celebrating him. It's something else. He's the sort you make room for on the train because your gut just tells you he's a wrong guy. I swear we have a whole lotta folks in the USA living vicariously, celebrating the apparently exhilarating feeling of being a really wrong guy.
OK so this rant belongs over in Arkham. The mods are free to move it if they're still standing.
Here‘s an interesting piece about the culture of Trump supporters.
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