I found Saturday Night Live's opening skit chilling. Bill Barr joking about minorities, chilling. Trump has ushered in mediocrity in entertainment.
The person calling people trying to persuade them to vote for Harris found similar to what I found in the park watching my daughter. I live in an immigrant neighborhood. One Ukranian woman who recently gave birth could not ranting about lazy immigrants. She was obviously infected with Fox fake news. She could not see the irony that she was an immigrant. Another Ukranian woman just got a bad vibe from Harris and wasn't going to vote.
When I speculated about how Eastern Europeans might be tempted to vote for a strongman, because they resembled the vicious rulers they fled from, a Albanian woman shook her head.
My son could joke about Trump saying they're eating cats and dogs. I couldn't joke.
I want an explanation that is prescriptive and leads to a path away from this mess.
Criticizing Fox infotainment doesn't work because there exists MSNBC and many comedy shows that regularly debunk and make fun of the right.
Criticizing young people doesn't feel right because they're going to have a sense of how things are distorted, they just got the wrong end of the firebrand if they think radical social media is truer than mainstream media.
Right leaning people hate liberals as bad as liberals hate rapey felons with bad policy ideas. It's not equivalent hate seeming from my left wing thinking. Their ideas are obviously mistaken. The instinct isn't wrong.
There's no powerful conclusion, that can save me from the next 4 years. There's no easy fix for the shock people feel. My usual bromides about living the questions, and tolerating ambivalence doesn't really cut it. I'm scared. My only hope is that people leave their screens and fight vigorously. We're puny in this world but when we clearly see something and come together it can be powerful.
Maybe Trump can stop this war in Ukraine. Maybe his greed and age will stumble him up. I read about the hypothesis that we elect incompetent and ineffectual presidents because we don't want effective leadership, they're always clawless. Obama was obstructed, Bush was a dry drunk, Clinton self sabotaging. Maybe the president isn't really needed, and America just needs a grievance leader, a surrogate of wronged white man.
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