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I had the occasion to be in Redlands, CA recently visiting my mother-in-law. It is our tradition to eat at Denny's where our AARP cards get us 20% off the tab.
Anyway, in the next booth up were two older women talking about their respective grand kids and how cute they were as they exchanged smart phones to see their Facebook posts. Seemingly out of nowhere the conversation veered off into the "disastrous" Presidency of Barack Obama.
"He was a traitor!" declared one. "Yes, he was a traitor" the other confirmed "from the time he bowed to that foreign dignitary in his first term, to the bugs he placed in Trump Tower just before he left office." Then, realizing the dark days were done they happily chortled, "Good riddance" and "Thank God for a real President like Donald Trump!"
While I attempted to phase them out and concentrate on the menu my mother-in-law spoke up. She had been nursing a revelation about President Trump she decided to share independent of the conversation in the booth ahead of us. "He is a bully" she began "a bully who never got spanked for his bad behavior. This is why he sees himself accountable to no one. You're either loyal to him, or you're against him like some old tyrant or something."
I asked her if she was aware the two women in the next booth were ardent Trump supporters. "Trump supporters in Redlands?" She wondered in disbelief. "No, they must be visiting from Yucaipa or someplace, certainly not Redlands. We're much too intelligent to fall for his nonsense. How can any rational person be that blind?" She tried to peek over her shoulder, gave up and dismissed them out of hand saying, "only stupid people support Donald Trump!"
Trouble was they did not sound like stupid people to me. They sounded like the Alt Privileged.
During further exchanges I heard them proudly refer to their four year bachelor degrees from prestigious, California schools. They acknowledged their good fortune in marrying successful men who planned for their futures with diversified, long term investments. They looked forward to seeing the value of those portfolios increase under President Trump. Their children were likewise the products of top schools who married attractive mates and produced beautiful grandchildren.
With their lives so good I couldn't help but wonder why wax rhapsodic for Donald Trump, or why for that matter anyone of their ilk would choose Denny's for lunch?
To answer the first question I suspect the source of their gnawing animus towards Barack Obama was due to an expectation they would be better off, after his handling of the Great Recession but he mucked up the Recovery. Trump's promise of unrivaled riches with continuous years of 4% GDP had them giddy with anticipation. The boom days were upon us. Their meal proceeded with mutual affirmations of the return of American Greatness, though one woman cautioned there was cause for concern. "Patriots" she insisted "need to be extra vigilant since the Muslim-led massacres in San Bernadino." Her lunch companion sagely nodded. The continuing influx of Muslim refugees into the Inland Empire over the last four years were not to be taken lightly. The "real press" predicted a growing threat of Sharia law overtaking our beloved Western institutions beginning in the Inland Empire.
I stifled a laugh.
It was inevitable that they wandered back to the sins of their nemisis. The same woman who saw trouble brewing around them shared a damning article from a favorite investigative journalist of the "real press"who unearthed hard evidence of Obama's secret collusion with the Dark State to remove Donald Trump from office!
My friends, what is to be done about these humans? Frankly, nothing. Forget about trying to engage their ludicrous ideas with logic. Winston Churchill defined a fanatic with "you can't change his mind and he won't change the subject." They're right, we're wrong and we'll burn in Hell for the traitors we are end of story.
Instead we should marshal our efforts to:
Start building coalitions across ethnic and racial lines to address fair wages, affordable housing, real investments in public education. Pay attention to local elections! Make your voice heard and vote.
Start talking it up about affordable health care coverage as a human right, not a perk of a high paying job.
Start demanding universal affordable health care, not mere access to affordable health care. There is a big difference between the two, so don't be mollified into silence by GOP influenced narratives about winners and losers. This is health care we are talking about not entrepreneurship.
Email your elected state and federal representatives. Demand they listen to your voices. Stay focused, have faith in those who believe in this country as an on-going process, believe that we are indivisible,
and let us say, Amen.
Anyway, in the next booth up were two older women talking about their respective grand kids and how cute they were as they exchanged smart phones to see their Facebook posts. Seemingly out of nowhere the conversation veered off into the "disastrous" Presidency of Barack Obama.
"He was a traitor!" declared one. "Yes, he was a traitor" the other confirmed "from the time he bowed to that foreign dignitary in his first term, to the bugs he placed in Trump Tower just before he left office." Then, realizing the dark days were done they happily chortled, "Good riddance" and "Thank God for a real President like Donald Trump!"
While I attempted to phase them out and concentrate on the menu my mother-in-law spoke up. She had been nursing a revelation about President Trump she decided to share independent of the conversation in the booth ahead of us. "He is a bully" she began "a bully who never got spanked for his bad behavior. This is why he sees himself accountable to no one. You're either loyal to him, or you're against him like some old tyrant or something."
I asked her if she was aware the two women in the next booth were ardent Trump supporters. "Trump supporters in Redlands?" She wondered in disbelief. "No, they must be visiting from Yucaipa or someplace, certainly not Redlands. We're much too intelligent to fall for his nonsense. How can any rational person be that blind?" She tried to peek over her shoulder, gave up and dismissed them out of hand saying, "only stupid people support Donald Trump!"
Trouble was they did not sound like stupid people to me. They sounded like the Alt Privileged.
During further exchanges I heard them proudly refer to their four year bachelor degrees from prestigious, California schools. They acknowledged their good fortune in marrying successful men who planned for their futures with diversified, long term investments. They looked forward to seeing the value of those portfolios increase under President Trump. Their children were likewise the products of top schools who married attractive mates and produced beautiful grandchildren.
With their lives so good I couldn't help but wonder why wax rhapsodic for Donald Trump, or why for that matter anyone of their ilk would choose Denny's for lunch?
To answer the first question I suspect the source of their gnawing animus towards Barack Obama was due to an expectation they would be better off, after his handling of the Great Recession but he mucked up the Recovery. Trump's promise of unrivaled riches with continuous years of 4% GDP had them giddy with anticipation. The boom days were upon us. Their meal proceeded with mutual affirmations of the return of American Greatness, though one woman cautioned there was cause for concern. "Patriots" she insisted "need to be extra vigilant since the Muslim-led massacres in San Bernadino." Her lunch companion sagely nodded. The continuing influx of Muslim refugees into the Inland Empire over the last four years were not to be taken lightly. The "real press" predicted a growing threat of Sharia law overtaking our beloved Western institutions beginning in the Inland Empire.
I stifled a laugh.
It was inevitable that they wandered back to the sins of their nemisis. The same woman who saw trouble brewing around them shared a damning article from a favorite investigative journalist of the "real press"who unearthed hard evidence of Obama's secret collusion with the Dark State to remove Donald Trump from office!
My friends, what is to be done about these humans? Frankly, nothing. Forget about trying to engage their ludicrous ideas with logic. Winston Churchill defined a fanatic with "you can't change his mind and he won't change the subject." They're right, we're wrong and we'll burn in Hell for the traitors we are end of story.
Instead we should marshal our efforts to:
Start building coalitions across ethnic and racial lines to address fair wages, affordable housing, real investments in public education. Pay attention to local elections! Make your voice heard and vote.
Start talking it up about affordable health care coverage as a human right, not a perk of a high paying job.
Start demanding universal affordable health care, not mere access to affordable health care. There is a big difference between the two, so don't be mollified into silence by GOP influenced narratives about winners and losers. This is health care we are talking about not entrepreneurship.
Email your elected state and federal representatives. Demand they listen to your voices. Stay focused, have faith in those who believe in this country as an on-going process, believe that we are indivisible,
and let us say, Amen.
Well said, David!
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