with the notion that Trump is a would-be fascist. I think we are, as a nation, so drenched in socialism right now, "they" that are saying that are calling their end game out. It could be a natural progression to go from 20+yr war nation, mired in debt, and smothering in togetherness to go fascist. Like all the factors are in place to support a dictator stepping onto a podium. Snap a photo and call it a day. New dictator in place and lots of dumbed-down, helpless, collateral damage, and commodity "voters" just raise a thumb.
Maybe they're hoping he is.
He's not.
And we can't even truly compare his first go at president of a republic as truly that since everyone's hands were tied--we were all in war that whole time! 20 freakin' years.
That's a whole generation in average age difference. Young people don't even know what socialism is, or an America not as a statue of war-bound. And the world can't wait to rope us into that even more. Then we'll have no choice about being something unique. We'll just be smear. War smear.
When I said this thirty years ago Betty White made a funny and an admission...not really understanding "socialism" either. JimBo Hannan managed a call-in on the topic. He also spent some of the last years of his life wishing Trump wouldn't just say random stuff or jump on the buzzword bandwagon.
But seriously sometimes despite our desires to be well, we are not. Likewise we can become something and not know it. I know some jerks like that. And they can list a hundred excuses for why, but the why is not really the point as much as not being a jerk. We all go through time periods together and transitions too. And it's hard to force want to be well and being well in a cycle that just beats down. Hard, but we have to keep doing it.
Nor can we snap fingers and magically repair all this rundown, burnt out, rusty versions of strong. It's not that kind of election. It's more a phase of not being exactly what we were in response to 9112001. It's heavy. It's a lot of life spent in that mode. And mysterious help, maybe some calgary gonna appear to help is part of the illusion wrapped up in the word slung around lately-- socialism.
And we've got some smart Republicans in war mode against socialism but because we're using a technical term in a vague way like it's a bucket for witch things, they are creating more ways of being offensive and alienating. That bothers me. Nobody who is actually smart should be acting like that. Call everyone but yourself ugly and see how many dates you get.
What I conveyed to Betty was that it's easy to feel overwhelmed with people flinging theoretical around; just be you. Others agreed, she was a tried and true American, a Patriot. She and Queen Elizabeth even had ways of communicating through "media" to reflect on their feelings about being traditional in a "mod" world. In fact, a lot of people got in on talking about what makes America different. Adding appropriate humor was just what face-masked permafrowns needed to perk up.
We did, like en masse consider the notion of being deathly afraid of I don't know what. We even had some different culture similarities.
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