Politics of Hate category archive
Celebrants 0
Field chronicles the exuberance of the Trumplings.
Backfire 0
Garrison Keillor suggests that the election won’t work out well for Trump voters. A snippet:
To all the patronizing BS we’ve read about Trump expressing the white working class’s displacement and loss of the American Dream, I say, “Feh!” — go put your head under cold water. Resentment is no excuse for bald-faced stupidity. America still is the land where the waitress’ kids can grow up to become physicists and novelists and pediatricians, but it helps a lot if the waitress and her husband encourage good habits and the ambition to use their God-given talents and the kids aren’t plugged into electronics day and night. Whooping it up for the candidate of cruelty and ignorance does less than nothing for your kids.
Do please read the rest. I expect that, a year from now, it will prove to have been prescient.
The View from Afar 0
Der Spiegel looks at the U. S. election. A snippet:
Welcome to pariah patriotism.
Reflection on the Election (Updated) 0
Hate sells.
Also, too, Chauncey Devega called it weeks ago.
Addendum:
What is likely to be ignored in the general discourse is that, in the United States of America, a nation founded on chattel slavery and stained by its original sin of racism, everything is ultimately about race. A snippet from Danielle Belton:
It took two generations, but now we shall know what a George Wallace presidency might have been like.
Java Jive 0
Mike marvels at much ado over not much of anything. (Warning: Language.)
Warning: Language.
Afterthought:
I had Starbucks coffee once. I fail to see the attraction.
Reality Bites 0
DougJ has a theory as to why persons frequently say they just want the campaign to be over: because it hurts to be reminded of the reality of today’s Republican Party.
The Thing from the Swamp 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear deconstructs the “drain the swamp” theme of the Trump campaign. Here’s a teeny little bit:
Read the rest. It’s not just echoes he’s hearing; it’s songs of the sirens of hate.