…no you aren’t getting to the heart of the matter. You are completely ignoring the actual matter and are letting your emotions cloud your judgement.
Well, yeah, someone is living in a “fantasy world.”
In the real world many people get up at five o’clock because they need to be ready at six o’clock to leave for work because its going to be a two hour commute to get to work. In the real world both couples are working, doing overtime, also have to come home to cook dinner, working six days a week, putting the kids to bed. Life is a relentless, ongoing struggle, and when they do get spare time they aren’t going to spend it looking up digging up citations that defend a person they don’t like very much.
On the other hand: you have been here since 2000, are a prolific poster with thousands and thousands of posts who has plenty of available time to be able to commit to posting your opinions on a messageboard. A messageboard with the specific intent to fight ignorance. Of course you are going to be fucking better informed than these other voters.
They aren’t living in a fantasy land. They aren’t out of touch with reality. They are simply living a different reality: one that you are completely out of touch with.
Who is asking for sympathy?
They don’t want your feeling pity and sorrow because of their misfortune. And that is besides the point. You can choose to try and empathise with them or not. You can choose to pour scorn on them or not. You can feel pity, or you can hate them. It doesn’t actually matter.
Because these people exist. And they aren’t demons and they aren’t ogres and they aren’t the enemy. And worrying about how these people are going to vote at the next election is only playing into Trumps hands. Because he is literally playing by Rove’s playbook. Go read Rove’s words again.
At this very minute Trump is assembling a team of literally the worlds worst people to take control of the most powerful country in the history of the world. And he is literally re-writing the rulebook as he does it. They are going to steam-roll over all the fabled checks and balances unless people act now to combat it. Those people out on the streets protesting right now? They have figured it out. That 93% of black women who held their noses and voted Clinton? They had figured it out. Yes: Trump is going to be president of the United States. Its happened. Get over it. If we don’t all start doing something now it will be all over before we even know what is happening. It will be blitzkrieg. Shock and awe.
There isn’t a lot I can do over this side of the world. I’m going to do what JK Rowling has suggested:
So thats what I’m doing. Focus on the bigots. Stick up for the vulnerable and the hurt. No matter who they are. I’m not going after the guy or the girl who is just doing their job who made a voting decision that wasn’t the best. These people are not the problem.
We need to hold the line. But we can’t just hold the line. We need to find the right people to take the attack to Trump not in two years time but now. We need to get our head in the game. We need to start re-writing the rules and we need to take control of the narrative. Eight years of Obama have made me complacent. With things like goobergate dying down I actually thought the Alt-Right had been put in its place. But the Alt-Right now have control of the nuclear codes. They control congress and the senate. And they’ve got a fucking road map of what they are going to do. They have spent decades planning for this. Its going to happen quick.
Get your head in the game or get out. We all can’t afford to be pointing the finger and examining what went wrong and planning for the next election because by then the Trump Empire will have just shifted gears and will be rolling over everyone again.