All good here. Some glitches now and then. But mainly good.
However, I learned a few days ago (sadly), that a former neighbor voted tRump as the lesser of two evils, and is apparently still unaware that pizzagate was debunked long ago. I find this very depressing. Neighbor urged me to watch two YouTube pizzagate links, and in a spirit of openness, I decided to watch most of one, but disgust took over. What is wrong with the minds that come up with this and other such sick conspiracy theories? How can anyone actually believe this stuff?
It’s that kind of mindset that pushes me towards total intellectual snobbery (!_!), or (positively) one who now grasps why the rural male (and female) not-college-educated voter block is so undiscerning. A lie is a lie is a lie after all! People, today especially, absolutely need critical thinking skills and college can help develop that, for sure.
Oh well, everyday life as we know it will go on for awhile I hope, but the dangers of tRumpian lunacy and amnesia and ignorance of history will keep feeding into and sabotaging our American democracy. And that is exactly what Putin (and also Bannon) sought: undermine American values and traditions and erode truth and freedom in every possible way. Chaos, division, ignorance, bigotry and tRump are the tools. So sad. And yet the rise of radical right extremist leaders in the world is a fact. If only all that negative energy and bigotry and greed was directed at attacking the largely economic root cause of failed states! The cause of mass migrations seems ignored. The cause of poverty, violence, war seems ignored. It ain’t rocket science! Greed rules too often, so life is cheap. Wars in Syria and Yemen endlessly support autocratic regimes and greed-is-good political alliances. Freedom is moved off the chessboard. Truth gets in the way, so it has to be dismembered, dissolved and denied.
Where have all the flowers gone? Can we still find them and some sunshine? At least now and then, here and there? Can we hope for some needed measure of time to salvage a few more warm, peaceful mornings for another cup of coffee on that lovely deck of democracy before some idyat escaping from the icy 9th circle of hell owns us?
Yes, probably, because that promising big wave tells me: “Surf’s Up!”
NB: Apologies, and no offense intended to my good and generous former neighbor, and to my other friends and relatives of similar mind. Though I cannot fathom nor tolerate the plague visited upon us in the last few years, the dangers posed require alertness and resistance. The blatant corruption and constitutional crisis we face are NOT NORMAL. They are actually proving life-threatening.
Yes, probably, because that promising big wave tells me: “Surf’s Up!”
NB: Apologies, and no offense intended to my good and generous former neighbor, and to my other friends and relatives of similar mind. Though I cannot fathom nor tolerate the plague visited upon us in the last few years, the dangers posed require alertness and resistance. The blatant corruption and constitutional crisis we face are NOT NORMAL. They are actually proving life-threatening.
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