Can't make it all better. In the '60's we had a chance to end the power of the racist lizard mind. Nixon, damn his festering soul, I sometimes wish I believed, because if there were a god she would condemn him to the lowest level of hell for giving the racist a home and outsized influence for the last 50 years. Trump is the result, the end product of the Southern Strategy. All the ugliness, anger, entitlement, and know nothingism of the current GOP (Grabber Of Pussy) leader and base all flow from Nixon.
Because of the resultant pandering to our worst nature by the Republican Party over following years I have maintained there are only three reasons to be/vote Republican: You are Rich, a bigot, or just fucking stupid. Today I will change that to just two reasons.
I can't get a recurring thought out of my mind that while Clinton "won" the battle tonight even more important she won the war by not putting the stalking, abusing, man-child away. Of the three possible outcomes, Trump "win", Trump "knockout" by Clinton, Trump losing but muddling through. The worst for the Republican Party was the muddling through because it allows Trump to continue but still bleeding support. What I can't get out of my mind is Clinton played this to perfection, that she didn't want a knockout with either Trump quitting or being thrown overboard by the RNC. Either option would introduce too many wild cards, the old "better the devil you know than the one you do not".
If Clinton wins on the 8th the world will be in good hands, tonight just brought it home.
...and the rest of the world will breath a sigh of relief...WW 3 averted. phew!
ReplyDeleteThe republican part is fractured and not behind Trump. The impression I get from this is you can be a republican but only certain ones can be president. The republican part is ensuring a Clinton presidency. I agree with you on Nixon.
ReplyDeleteIt seems folks would tar and feather a teacher if they harbored such misogynist leaning but they would vote them for President. The folks who have a moral and ethical compass for the 21 st century we would like to see run for office just don't have the stomach for it and we are left with what we have toady.
ReplyDeleteBob,
ReplyDeleteI have to say I'm starting to relax just a bit but not too much. I've been aware of elections since Eisenhower and Stevenson and never in that time did have I felt the fear I've felt with this one. Although I was wrong when Shrub was selected by the USSC, I did not worry that he would destroy the US and/or the world and as evil as Nixon was at least he was smart.
ken
Ralph,
ReplyDeleteThe problem is Trump is the Republican base, it is who they are. Watch the RNC roll over on their back and piddle on their belly over the next couple of days. The Pols that pulled their endorsements are going to get their dicks handed to them. I wish it weren't so but this has been building for over 40 years and the inmates are running the train to mix metaphors.
BTW, Nixon should roast in hell not only for his Southern Strategy but also for his sabotage of the Paris peace talks. Of the 58,000 USA KIA over 22,000 died to get Nixon elected twice. I can not get with in a mile of the "Wall" without bursting into tears, I have tears in my eyes just typing about it. Am I bitter....Hell yes I am.
ken
Matt,
ReplyDeletePolitics can be an honorable profession, the practice has been likened to making sausage and it is. In the past my family fought the good fight in Texas. They won few and lost most but in the end Texas was a better place for their efforts. Ain't nothing so lonely as a Texas Liberal/Civil Rights worker. You have to have a damn good sense of humor.
Just four more weeks and I can get back to thinking about traveling work benches and tool boxes.
ken
Isn't it that in a modern democracy, judicial authority is independant from executive authority (and legislative authority)?
ReplyDeleteThis guy doesn't seem to know the ABC. (and IMO he doesn't care)
You might say this is none of my business, but US being a "super power", as a citizen of a small country, I am scared.
Sylvain
Sylvain,
ReplyDeleteWhile you can't vote it is definitely your business because what happens here effects most of the world. While I do not think he can be elected with just the possibility, not probability, is enough to to give me the night terrors as well.
Bottom line the North won the battle of the Civil War but not the War. As posted before we could have ended it and won in the '60's but we lost our way. Trump is just the logical result. I wish I could be more reassuring.
ken
This post and the responses made me smile. I keep my political views to myself here in the woodworker world because of the conventional wisdom that all of us old white guys are to the right of Genghis Khan. Nice to know I have some company. I'm thinking of having a T-shirt made that says "Don't make any assumptions just because I'm an old white guy."
ReplyDeleteAndy,
ReplyDeleteIf you think the woodworker community is reactionary you should try aviation :-). I too for the most part try to limit political posts but there are exceptions, mostly dealing with war and racism.
This is an another exception. Trump is a threat to not only the US but to the world and I do not take this claim lightly, while I think Republican administrations have failed the US from the 1920's until today they have not been civilization destroying. Trump has the potential to destroy the world and civilization as we know it.
I wish I were not so alarmist but bottom line he scares me.
ken