There is a lot to be said for this, but given that the MAGA followers seem to be somehow confusing Marxism with vast plots to turn American children into transgender people or something, as well imagine they are fighting an evil "Deep State", I don't think they are going to listen. The funny thing is, they allowed an almost James Bond vi…
There is a lot to be said for this, but given that the MAGA followers seem to be somehow confusing Marxism with vast plots to turn American children into transgender people or something, as well imagine they are fighting an evil "Deep State", I don't think they are going to listen. The funny thing is, they allowed an almost James Bond villain to take over the U.S. and voted an agent of Moscow into the White House, exactly the kind of evil characters they would cheer a GI Joe type hero destroying.
What might reach people in the middle is an understanding that the Libertarian ideas of small government have not worked. They may suddenly realize that "Washington" isn't a bunch of elite liberals out there but their hardworking neighbors who are keeping their food and medicine safe. I see that now farmers can't get climate data to plan what to plant and that graduate schools are canceling acceptances because the funding is so uncertain. This is the kind of thing that may make people turn on Trump and his Merry Musketeers. The Democrats just have to connect the dots, say that loudly and give viable alternatives.
Excellent. Your message, Dr. Weil, is unequivocal.
I am still asking why, not to blame nor denigrate the learned people who have for years written about the forces striving to undermine government programs for 'the people' as in the neocons-neoliberals and technocrat billionaires, their erudite works have not impacted the evil endeavors - exposed their intentions to destroy our democracy for the people and by the people- nor generated a movement to stop them.
I have read the writings of those who exposed the Turks, for example, the extermination and eradication of thousands of Armenians, and found there is no answer. Also, the writings of those who exposed the Hitler regime offer no answer for me.
Suddenly, those learned writers who expose such greedy people are turning on me for asking. I do not intend to mock writers like you, Thom, but I am without guile asking why voters were not awakened over the years to their sounding the alarm. I do not mean to step on the male egos of the writers of such books—I am just askin'. I don't appreciate the slander of me that my asking has generated by some of those learned people.
I don’t know Carol, in Greek myth Cassandra was cursed with being able to accurately foretell the future…and to never be believed. Perhaps it is like the experience my father-in-law had as a Jew in the Berlin of the 1930s. His friends all said that the new Chancellor was a semi-literate clown who would be gone in 6 months, then when things started getting bad they all said it couldn’t get worse. When it did he got out, but so many didn’t make it. Thom talks about this a lot in the book "They Thought They Were Free" which contains interviews of Germans who lived through the war. Most just went along with things and didn’t ask questions. Those who knew what the Nazis were and didn’t join them felt helpless and overwhelmed.
I really cannot feel more than sorry for those Americans who just don’t know better with MAGA. They have good reasons to feel hurt, marginalized, and angry about their futures and want somebody to blame. The issue is when they allow themselves to be directed against other groups as the ones who should be attacked. Then you have a mob fueled by hate, and the last century was littered with its victims. The real villains are those who know better but, even if they aren’t part of the group directing the movement, go along to profit from it. They make it possible for those at the top to unbind the hate. Most Republicans in Congress probably fall into this group, trading their souls for their seats, as it were. It must take a strong will to lie every day. (Trump can’t tell the difference, but most of those around him can.) Nothing is worth that.
There is a lot to be said for this, but given that the MAGA followers seem to be somehow confusing Marxism with vast plots to turn American children into transgender people or something, as well imagine they are fighting an evil "Deep State", I don't think they are going to listen. The funny thing is, they allowed an almost James Bond villain to take over the U.S. and voted an agent of Moscow into the White House, exactly the kind of evil characters they would cheer a GI Joe type hero destroying.
What might reach people in the middle is an understanding that the Libertarian ideas of small government have not worked. They may suddenly realize that "Washington" isn't a bunch of elite liberals out there but their hardworking neighbors who are keeping their food and medicine safe. I see that now farmers can't get climate data to plan what to plant and that graduate schools are canceling acceptances because the funding is so uncertain. This is the kind of thing that may make people turn on Trump and his Merry Musketeers. The Democrats just have to connect the dots, say that loudly and give viable alternatives.
Excellent. Your message, Dr. Weil, is unequivocal.
I am still asking why, not to blame nor denigrate the learned people who have for years written about the forces striving to undermine government programs for 'the people' as in the neocons-neoliberals and technocrat billionaires, their erudite works have not impacted the evil endeavors - exposed their intentions to destroy our democracy for the people and by the people- nor generated a movement to stop them.
I have read the writings of those who exposed the Turks, for example, the extermination and eradication of thousands of Armenians, and found there is no answer. Also, the writings of those who exposed the Hitler regime offer no answer for me.
Suddenly, those learned writers who expose such greedy people are turning on me for asking. I do not intend to mock writers like you, Thom, but I am without guile asking why voters were not awakened over the years to their sounding the alarm. I do not mean to step on the male egos of the writers of such books—I am just askin'. I don't appreciate the slander of me that my asking has generated by some of those learned people.
I don’t know Carol, in Greek myth Cassandra was cursed with being able to accurately foretell the future…and to never be believed. Perhaps it is like the experience my father-in-law had as a Jew in the Berlin of the 1930s. His friends all said that the new Chancellor was a semi-literate clown who would be gone in 6 months, then when things started getting bad they all said it couldn’t get worse. When it did he got out, but so many didn’t make it. Thom talks about this a lot in the book "They Thought They Were Free" which contains interviews of Germans who lived through the war. Most just went along with things and didn’t ask questions. Those who knew what the Nazis were and didn’t join them felt helpless and overwhelmed.
I really cannot feel more than sorry for those Americans who just don’t know better with MAGA. They have good reasons to feel hurt, marginalized, and angry about their futures and want somebody to blame. The issue is when they allow themselves to be directed against other groups as the ones who should be attacked. Then you have a mob fueled by hate, and the last century was littered with its victims. The real villains are those who know better but, even if they aren’t part of the group directing the movement, go along to profit from it. They make it possible for those at the top to unbind the hate. Most Republicans in Congress probably fall into this group, trading their souls for their seats, as it were. It must take a strong will to lie every day. (Trump can’t tell the difference, but most of those around him can.) Nothing is worth that.