I've had a busy week and haven't posted much through the drama. But it seems that even though this election went exactly as many of us expected, it has rocked the worlds of many others. I'm still catching up on the "middle pages" of this thread, but from the talk of ignore buttons it would seem that I haven't missed that much. Or maybe I've skipped over the best part, can't wait to catch up with all of the drama here.
But if it hasn't already been brought up I will just say that trump won for a lot of reasons, but one huge one is
history. Particularly the history of these united states, and its proud traditions of racism and sexism.
Racism and sexism combined to defeat Clinton. This outcome is as much a backlash against President Barack Obama as it is against a woman being elected to the top office of the United States of America. America is a country divided against itself where political ideology and polarization are deeply intertwined with racial animus, sexism and hostility to the Other. If politics is a story of action and reaction, the age of Obama was punched in the face on Election Day by the age of Trump.
This election was an ugly time but buckle up, because the shit machine is just getting into gear.
For example if we get the 1990's trump, the worst is definitely yet to come:
Hitler’s speeches—he turns skittish and, perhaps, inventive. Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a
master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.”(“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”) Later, Trump returned to this subject:
“If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
So that settles that. The bottom line is even if trump doesn't have a mandate, he has both houses of congress, and will have a friendly supreme court plus many other judges validating his policies. No reichstag-type event will be necessary, if he wants to take this country for a surreal fascist adventure. The bonfire is primed with gasoline, just light it and watch it burn. Even without the support of the masses.
The bottom line is trump can do whatever the hell he wants, as he never took a position on anything.
At least we didn't give the socialist a chance to upset corporate profits
, that would have been a travesty.
