I wrote this one week after the election when we realized this guy would be an "advisor". I had no idea that just like his German doppelganger from the 30's, Bannon would be made head of the Military one week after Inauguration. The one thing we should all agree on.... NO ONE in America voted for Steve Bannon.
History Repeats Itself (when we are too stupid to learn from the first time.)
November -2016
It has only been a week since the election. That is not enough time to gain a perspective on what is to come... Or is it?
I hear people say and read posts to the affect that we must, "Wait and see, Give the new Prez a chance, We don't know what he will do yet." To those who think time is on our side I say, Really? What I think is: If it talks like Fascism, appoints people who are Fascist, is embraced by Racists and makes promises to a disappointed working class that can't possibly be kept, it must be Fascism. I personally have had more than 18 months of this new Leader's rhetoric and lies. When I hear a duck quack I don't wait to see if it is actually a chicken in the pond.
Yesterday was my worst day. By the end I was so depressed I went to bed early almost hoping that I wouldn't wake up. That may sound overly dramatic but for a CD (clinical depressive) like me that can be par for the course, particularly when things seem to be out of my control.
So, I am going to limit my time on all social media and this blog, and turn all my attentions to the book I am writing, which is anything but political. I will also say this to anyone who cares to have a open mind. After Goebbels was appointed advisor to the Fuhrer in 1930's Germany, there was no more real news, no truth, only the propaganda and lies that the regime allowed. Yesterday Sean Hannity suggested that CNN, MSNBC and several other "news" outlets have their Whitehouse press credentials pulled because they didn't support Trump. The Trump himself asked President Obama to "Stop talking to the world... their mine now". And so it goes and the new Goebbels has not even officially taken office.
History Repeats Itself (when we are too stupid to learn from the first time.)
November -2016
I hear people say and read posts to the affect that we must, "Wait and see, Give the new Prez a chance, We don't know what he will do yet." To those who think time is on our side I say, Really? What I think is: If it talks like Fascism, appoints people who are Fascist, is embraced by Racists and makes promises to a disappointed working class that can't possibly be kept, it must be Fascism. I personally have had more than 18 months of this new Leader's rhetoric and lies. When I hear a duck quack I don't wait to see if it is actually a chicken in the pond.
Yesterday was my worst day. By the end I was so depressed I went to bed early almost hoping that I wouldn't wake up. That may sound overly dramatic but for a CD (clinical depressive) like me that can be par for the course, particularly when things seem to be out of my control.
My day started off with rage. So many posts on Facebook from people who have been very laid back about a Trump Presidency are now Trumpeteers with a "na na na- we won and you didn't- na na na" attitude. I even found myself drawn into a "troll fight" on FB with people whom I will never ever meet. I decided to get off the media feed and see if the world was still turning outside. It didn't help, that rage continued and I realized I was just aching for a fight. I was waiting for someone to cut me off with a car so I could scream and give them the finger. I was very irritated that a guy in front of me at the Hardware store check out did not have his check card ready fast enough for me. I felt myself just hoping someone would say something that I could take the wrong way and read their beads. I know it was all my own interpretation of normal events based on this thick fog that hangs over the nation right now.
So, I am going to limit my time on all social media and this blog, and turn all my attentions to the book I am writing, which is anything but political. I will also say this to anyone who cares to have a open mind. After Goebbels was appointed advisor to the Fuhrer in 1930's Germany, there was no more real news, no truth, only the propaganda and lies that the regime allowed. Yesterday Sean Hannity suggested that CNN, MSNBC and several other "news" outlets have their Whitehouse press credentials pulled because they didn't support Trump. The Trump himself asked President Obama to "Stop talking to the world... their mine now". And so it goes and the new Goebbels has not even officially taken office.
I see the America train heading for the edge of a deep canyon and unfortunately I can't get off. I get marginalized if I try to warn the conductor, and this causes my depression to rise. Not heeding the lessons of History condemns us to repeat it. With the educational level of this country at an all time low it is now possible to fool most of the people all of the time.
I am white, college educated and live in an affluent neighborhood with a healthy amount of retirement cash stashed away. If I feel this hopelessness, how must those who have none of these advantages be feeling today with a propaganda guy like Bannon helping run the country?
Over and out,
Jay
1 comment:
I figured Trump would last, maybe, two years. After the Constitutional crisis he just touched off, I'm figuring to lower that. MAYBE he'll last a year...but every day brings him--and us--closer.
And when he is forced out of office, I won't gloat...I'll simply release a long sigh of relief.
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