I don't have a lot to share on what you wrote here.. In part, because I don't yet know what my resistance may look like. Suffice to say, the lack of epistemology and/or intellectual honesty of the religious right is well understood. I tend to take bigger issue with the "fiscal" conservative who, because he sits in a privileged seat, allows under the guise of, "it probably won't be that bad."
I haven't voted directly for my interest in many years. I have the benefit of how and where I was raised to put me in enough of a position that a few thousand dollars on any of a tax bracket is meaningless. I vote for people I care about and for the next generation. This probably isn't said enough but, self-absorbed voting allows us to apply misguided metrics to any situation.
Not really the point of what you are saying... just places where my meandering concerns take me.
Your comment, which alluded to "self-absorbed" voting, prompted a few thoughts:
I think that very often voters don't vote for the candidate who they think will do the best job. Instead, they are consumed by, or self-aborbed, by certain grievances and obsessions and so they vote for a candidate who best expresses their resentments.
For example, in the 1972 Democratic Presidential Primary in Florida, George Wallace, the segregationist candidate who was deplored by mainstream and liberal democrats in WDC, posted placcards and ads all over Florida with just 4 words: "Send them A Message."
Florida went overwhelmingly for Wallace. I am sure that many of his supporters didn't think he would be the best candidate as he had no Washington or foreign policy experience. But they wanted to say "up yours" to Washington.
Likewise, I am sure many Trump supporters did not think that Trump -- plainly and patently egomaniacal, uncontrolled, rage-filled, and psychopathic -- was the best candidate. However by voting for him they amplified their message of disdain for blacks, etc.
You landed on many of the points that form the foundation of my complaint.
You covered pretty much of everything that has been gnawing at my gut since Nov 5.
It all is in a thick fog of unreality, like a dream you know you should remember but it has holes in it.
It is as is the nation is hypnotized and some post hypnotic suggestion has everyone behaving bizarrely. We have all the appearance of doing the thing, but there is no intent behind it. It's contrived, performed. It's weird.
I don't have a lot to share on what you wrote here.. In part, because I don't yet know what my resistance may look like. Suffice to say, the lack of epistemology and/or intellectual honesty of the religious right is well understood. I tend to take bigger issue with the "fiscal" conservative who, because he sits in a privileged seat, allows under the guise of, "it probably won't be that bad."
I haven't voted directly for my interest in many years. I have the benefit of how and where I was raised to put me in enough of a position that a few thousand dollars on any of a tax bracket is meaningless. I vote for people I care about and for the next generation. This probably isn't said enough but, self-absorbed voting allows us to apply misguided metrics to any situation.
Not really the point of what you are saying... just places where my meandering concerns take me.
Your comment, which alluded to "self-absorbed" voting, prompted a few thoughts:
I think that very often voters don't vote for the candidate who they think will do the best job. Instead, they are consumed by, or self-aborbed, by certain grievances and obsessions and so they vote for a candidate who best expresses their resentments.
For example, in the 1972 Democratic Presidential Primary in Florida, George Wallace, the segregationist candidate who was deplored by mainstream and liberal democrats in WDC, posted placcards and ads all over Florida with just 4 words: "Send them A Message."
Florida went overwhelmingly for Wallace. I am sure that many of his supporters didn't think he would be the best candidate as he had no Washington or foreign policy experience. But they wanted to say "up yours" to Washington.
Likewise, I am sure many Trump supporters did not think that Trump -- plainly and patently egomaniacal, uncontrolled, rage-filled, and psychopathic -- was the best candidate. However by voting for him they amplified their message of disdain for blacks, etc.
You landed on many of the points that form the foundation of my complaint.
You covered pretty much of everything that has been gnawing at my gut since Nov 5.
It all is in a thick fog of unreality, like a dream you know you should remember but it has holes in it.
It is as is the nation is hypnotized and some post hypnotic suggestion has everyone behaving bizarrely. We have all the appearance of doing the thing, but there is no intent behind it. It's contrived, performed. It's weird.
It is threatening.