SUMMARY: This post, recycled from 2017, reflects on Arlie Hochschild’s Strangers In Their Own Land, which explores the perspectives of white rural conservative voters in Southern Louisiana. Hochschild discusses their “deep story,” revealing feelings of marginalization and frustration toward liberal elites. Despite experiencing environmental degradation from petrochemical industries, these voters often support policies that harm their interests, illustrating a complex relationship between identity, politics, and economic realities. Understanding this dynamic is crucial for overcoming the destructive anti-democratic path these voters have set the country on.
KEY WORDS: Donald Trump, Arlie Hochschild, Rural Conservative Christian White Voters, Marginalized Voters, Deep Story, Petrochemicals Industry, Identity Politics,
Empathy
COMMENT: Now that these voters have set us on a course to self-destruction, do you think there is anyway we can change course?
- The Making of the Republican Stooge Voter: A Review of “Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right”
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Now that Trump has been elected by a wide margin both in the popular and electoral vote, we find ourselves in the exact same place we were in 2016… only worser. I just can’t believe it to a degree that is like a death in the family. I wake up thinking that Harris is still possible, and it takes me a minute before I realize that Trump has been elected, again.
One of the posts that seems most applicable to this moment was my review of Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Originally published in 2016, it predated Trump’s America, so prescient, no?
This is a revision of the post. Back in the early days of Ye Olde Blogge, meaning 2016 – 2024, I wasn’t always the most careful writer, editor, and proofreader. Just like a doctor shouldn’t play doctor with themselves and a lawyer shouldn’t diddle with the law with themselves, a writer shouldn’t edit their own proofreader, so I’ve cleaned it up a good bit.
The opening couple of paragraphs really resonated with me as did the Great Disconnect section.
The Making of the Republican Stooge Voter: A Review of “Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right”
Well, dear readers, it’s no secret that Donald Trump is once again our president, and he’s already creating quite a mess. It’s as if Abbott and Costello were elected president and brought the Keystone Kops as their cabinet and the Three Stooges as their national security advisors. We are, literally, all so fucked.
If you’re anything like me (I KNOW, Mother, no one is like me, but let’s pretend, okay?), you still have moments throughout the day and night in which you stare in stupefied disbelief into that comforting mid-distance now that the Pussy Grabber is actually in office, and think, Wipe the drool from my chin and grab me by my pussy, how did this happen? I find myself all too frequently in this position.
Fortunately, Arlie Russell Hochschild, UC Berkeley sociologist, held her nose and swam in the deep derp of rural conservative white Louisianan voters for FIVE years. She published her experience in a book, Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. She explores what she calls the “deep story,” the story we tell ourselves about our feelings and perceptions of our lives. It is the narrative that describes our point-of-view, motivations, and deep emotional reactions. And, she tries to climb the empathy wall, i.e. empathize with these folks, even though they live what she calls the great paradox: people who desperately need the aid of liberal government intervention but vote against it.
The Deep Story of White Voters
The deep story of rural conservative white voters is exactly what you think it is. They feel marginalized and believe they are being overlooked in favor of various groups, including women, minorities, LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, Muslims, and a host of ominous threatening non-white OTHERS. They perceive their contributions to society as trivialized and feel that liberal elites look down on them, labeling them as “rednecks” or “racists.” This perception stings; they don’t see themselves in that light.
Moreover, they DISTRUST mainstream media, viewing it as having a liberal bias, and believe that the federal government is both intrusive and ineffective. To them, their Christian values are paramount, and they are offended — OFFENDED!!1! — when those values are challenged. They see themselves as good, moral Christians, which makes them good and everything they do good. How can good Christians be ignorant and racist?
Cancer Alley: A Case Study
The most astonishing thing in the entire book is their view of large petrochemical corporations. You should sit down for this. Seriously, perhaps, you should take a Valium or a stiff drink or both, Here’s the crux of it:
- They hate the environmental pollution that leads to high cancer rates, deteriorating health, and shortened life expectancy.
- Yet, they believe this pollution is necessary for the national economy.
- They feel it is their patriotic duty to endure pollution and environmental degradation for the sake of providing the rest of the country with cheap plastics, petroleum products, and other goods. Whatever low paying scarce jobs that they can get on the margins of these plants is just gravy for their biscuits.
- They genuinely think that these corporations are benevolent job creators, despite evidence to the contrary that they live every single day of their short miserable lives.
- They accept that the huge tax breaks the state gives these companies are necessary to bring the world their cheap products, even if it means sacrificing their own well-being.
- They believe that without regulation, corporations will act in the best interest of the environment because everybody needs the environment, right? It would be stupid to so pollute the world so that it couldn’t support the lives of 350 million Americans in the style to which we have become accustomed, right? Corporations aren’t that stupid, are they? Ergo, presto, sum cum loud, corporations don’t need no stinking meddling federal or state government telling them how to run their biddness.
In essence, they think it’s acceptable for politicians like Bobby Jindal to have bankrupted the state of Louisiana so that petrochemical companies would either relocate to or expand their operations in the state. They think of themselves as just another cheap natural resource to be used in the manufacturing process to be tossed aside when their lives are used up. These people all held hands, rode their unicorns over rainbow bridges, eating heart-shaped cupcakes, singing Kumbaya to the voting booths to elect these assholes.
By the end of the book not only are you sick to your stomach but you are convinced that Bobby Jindal is the most evil motherfucker to walk the nation. But, now in 2024, you realize it was all just a prelude to Trump’s Big Lie and a preview for just how bad shit can get.
White People, Empathy Fatigue, Communities of Color, and the American Dream
They aren’t racist — honest Injun, they ain’t, they swear they saw a Black person just down the road from them once and they only thought the n-word once or twice — but they are tired of being FORCED to feel guilty if they don’t feel sorry for the Black community, especially since they are all freeloading takers. To them, it seems like everyday there is a new group that they must feel sorry for and prioritize the needs of over themselves. They are left wondering, when will the elite liberals ever feel sorry for them? — but we are; it’s just that they make it like hugging a cactus. To them it is a never ending parade of people they don’t understand being escorted to the line in front of them by naive liberal and stalling their progress to the American dream — whatever that is.
The Great Disconnect Between Reality and Rhetoric of White America
Hochschild’s book also highlights some stark disconnects between reality and the rhetoric often used by Republicans. For example:
- Welfare Spending: Many believe the government spends excessively on welfare. It doesn’t. Only 8% of the 2014 US budget was devoted to “welfare” for the poor as we conceive of it.
- Welfare Recipients: There’s a misconception that most welfare recipients are lazy shiftless takers, giving rise to resentment for taking the hard-earned money of people like them and just GIVING it to them for nothing!!1! In reality, most eligible individuals do not receive benefits.
- Racial Stereotypes: The idea that Black women have more children than white women is debunked by actual fertility rates.
- Public vs. Private Sector Pay: Contrary to popular belief, public sector workers are often paid less than their private sector counterparts when controlling for experience and education. And, the government employs far fewer people than rural white voters imagine.
These misconceptions create a narrative that justifies their support for destructive policies and politicians.
Cognitive Dissonance
The reality is that many conservative voters find it difficult to admit they’ve been misled. Once they realize they’ve been scammed, they often justify their choices instead of confronting their beliefs. This cognitive dissonance leads them to continue supporting harmful policies, as admitting fault would mean acknowledging the consequences of their votes and their participation in their own misery.
Realizing just how far afield rural conservative Christian white voters’ beliefs are from reality makes it really easy to make fun of them, think less of them, and condemn them for their own ignorance. Despite these challenges, it’s essential to approach these voters with compassion. We can find common ground and share a message that resonates with their experiences. By understanding their deep story, we can frame our arguments in a way that is more relatable and inclusive.
Back to the present day. I don’t know about the conclusion that we can appeal to these folks on any grounds. They may have ridden the menticide slide one time too often to be swayed by any argument that isn’t closely associated with MAGA.
We have to remember that there are more of us than them in spite of the results of the election. Our real task and goal is to overcome the voter suppression measures that the Republicans have put in place to create this minority-rule dystopia.
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This is an image of Junior Sample from his Hee Haw days. It was acquired before I was tracking my sources and ensuring that every image had a Creative Commons License. It was used with the original post.
The Psy of Life 
For all but the oldest cohorts, this hase been all they’ve been told for their entire lives.
Rush came on the air in 1984, Reagan started his campaign in 1980 railing against ‘Welfare Queens driving Cadillacs’ and ‘Young Bucks eating steaks’, “The ‘Moral’ Majority” arose in 1972 as a reaction to desegregation and the Civil Rights Act, not abortion, and famously Nixon welcomed the Jim Crow Democrats into the Republican Party.
We’re seeing the results here of entire lifetimes marinating in right wing propaganda that we’re saying these things about them, and doing these things to them.
This isn’t a ‘quick fix’ kind of problem…Jim Crow was just a cold continuation of the Civil War that has not ever ended.
We have the massive social media platforms that are exquisitely tuned to grab people by the id and keep them watching; and nothing tickles the id like outrage.
When run by multibillionaires predisposed to an authoritarian movement the algorithms get tweaked to reward right-wing propaganda and engagement because the multibillionaires prosper in a fascist state.¹
(they don’t really want to be dictators, so much as modern feudal lords who command armies of serfs to support them and their lifestyles, without all that boring governance administrivia.)
I’ve seen people propose, with straight faces, “Why doesn’t the left just build their own media empires and versions of twitter and facebook and tiktok to counter this.“
You cannot just build one of those. They were sui generis. Nothing like Facebook, Twitter, or Tik Tok existed before them. They succeeded so wildly because they were new and did things no other platform did, either as well or at all.
Remember: Twitter was originally marketed as a ‘microblogging’ app: a way of posting one sentence (140 characters, remember?) ‘microblog posts’ as a competition for the then new and wildly popular ‘blogging thing’, like what I’m commenting on right this moment.
Facebook did challenge MySpace, a bit.
TikTok did one thing: make creating, editing and posting short video from your phone effortless.
The one new thing all of these things had in common were their algorithims to link users to like-minded others. THIS was their killer feature.
All of these services were eagerly taken up by RW propagandists, who rapidly got a following that was picked up by the algorithms to increase their engagementwhich grew when more extreme rhetoric was publiched in a hellish feedback loop of radicalization.
Researchers have long been able to document cases of ordinary people steadily getting radicalized by RW posts suggested by the algorithm helpfully suggesting ever more ractionary content, purely because that increases engagement better than any other variable.
QAnon (which may have started as a 4-chan troll for the lulz) consumed people into a kind of Conspiracy Borg; it assimilated other conspiracy theories whenever it contacted them.
This had real world consequences for tens or hundreds of thousands of people: estrangement from firends and family, spending entire life savings, even killing them, like Ashley Babbit.
And these companies know this. Facebook was able to nearly completely throttle radicalization posts by the likes of ISIS to break their social media efforts, which hithero had been successful in recruiting followers to commit acts of terrorism.
When they applied the same tweaks to their algorithms in the US; they started blocking GOP elected officials, prominent media people, and wildly popular ‘influencers’. So of course that effort was dropped. When Musk took over Twitter he demolished the meagre safeguards and supercharged it’s reach as a reactionary fascist communications outlet.
And this was all before the efforts of hostile nation-states to game these social media outlets with vast armies of troll factories and bots.
¹ Well untill the authoritarian decides that he wants what they have; then they need to avoid high windows ,tea in public restaurants, or answering their front doors to unkown people wielding perfume sprays…
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Howdy Bruce!
You’re preaching to the choir on these counts. I’ve been saying much of this for the past few years. The most dangerous place to be is between a capitalist and their profits. We now have the entire world standing between the oligarchs and their profits. You don’t need three guesses to know which one loses that standoff.
Here’s the thing. We could never rely on the business community to stop fascism in the country. We can’t rely on the for-profit press (a unique part of the business community but with a history of community service, which they abandoned long ago) to stop fascism. The only people we could rely on is ourselves, and it looks like we failed. I don’t know that we get another bite at that apple in 2026. I think 2024 shows the success of the Republican voter suppression efforts, and every election from now on will just be a repeat of it.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I think it is not so much that those voters have been persuaded to vote against their own interests (a subject also covered in “What’s Wrong With Kansas”), as it is that they have been persuaded to misidentify who is doing it to them. Still, the sad fact is that the “liberal elites” do look down on them, blame them for the “right to work” laws that keep them from getting organized in unions (which would, once, have brought them into the Democratic Party fold), and their poor education (engineered by the political minions of the bosses). It doesn’t help that civil rights legislation drove the Dixiecrats into the Republican Party. Yes, the racism is real even if nobody will ever admit to it in themselves. The real cure for that is multiple generations of children playing and learning together, which we have so far avoided at scale, largely by way of de facto residential segregation.
Is there a way to reach them? I do not think the Democrats can do that now, and are likely to screw it up if they try, by making, or allowing it to be seen as condescending. What can get through to them would (will?) be the rapid, complete, and devastating failure of the new Republican government and leadership. John (in the previous comment) speaks to that outcome.
People with apparently hard wired beliefs and loyalties can, under sufficient stress, become converts to the exact opposite, and converts of any kind are the most intense zealots in their new cause. That often means the most violent and unforgiving.
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Howdy Bob!
It has always troubled me that liberal elites or just liberals in general have always been willing to violate all of our norms and beliefs. We say we shouldn’t make fun of people, shame people, or bully people, but liberals do all of the time. Try going on a liberal website and voice an unpopular point-of-view or opinion on something. Man, it’s not the flying monkey squad, but people are not kind or accepting. There can be a self-righteous smug presumption of being correct among liberals that is condescending.
It seems like that is the way that it always is, though, the Republicans wreak the economy, the Democrats fix it, and the Republicans win back the WH and take all the credit. It’s happening again. We’ll see how fast Trump’s tariffs and immigration round up wrecks the economy and whether or not voting matters in 2026.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I think what we see there is a form or result of confirmation bias. And it works just as well from the other side, with those who see liberals as out of touch, and disrespectful, and looking down at them. One of the hard cognitive tasks is considering that we might be wrong. Reality has to deliver some serious wack up side of the head to get humans to do that.
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Howdy Bob!
I think that’s what has affected me the most. I was so sure that Americans as a whole would make the “right” choice and choose democracy and freedom over authoritarianism and fear. Without the ability to predict the future, we feel vulnerable and afraid. A gaffe of this size is really leaves you stunned and feeling lucky to still be alive.
Ultimately, I think the mistake that liberals make is underestimating the degree to which human beings are focused on the present and make irrational emotional decisions. Republicans have a good grasp on how to exploit the irrational side of the brain, and it just feels dirty and unfair to liberals to do so. We’re still trying to enact the Enlightenment dream, and they’re enacting the Hobbesian dystopia of a solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short life for the average person.
Given the Democratic “autopsy” so far, I’d say, no one’s attention has really been gotten by the loss so far. As long as we’re still dicking around with listening to the masses and convincing the working class that Democrats are providing for their needs. We need to be working on that emotional messaging and ways of overcoming voter suppression.
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Jack
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That seems right. It just struck me that the core of what many people mean when they say liberals are talking down to them is exactly about that demand for reason over emotion. There is a disconnect between those who express what they feel and find it heard as what they think being irrational and stupid.
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Howdy Bob!
That seems right, too. There’s also a disconnect between what happened five years ago and what it caused today. The greater the delay between cause and effect, the more likely people will misplace responsibility for what is happening now. Thinking is hard, so people avoid it.
Huzzah!
Jack
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The entire Republican courtship of the blue collar American male working class is a study in misplaced responsibility, from at least Reagan onward. There has been the scam of “trickle down”, the destruction or cooptation of the unions, the “welfare queens” (a brilliant combination of racism and misogyny), and so on. Historically, for a brief, shining moment there was a stable system of negotiated compromise that sat on a three legged stool. The legs were Big Government, Big Money, and Big Labor, with the money supporting the Republican Party, and labor supporting the Democratic Party. One of those legs was broken in the ’80s. Without strong unions and one of the two political parties securely in the pocket of those unions, that part of the population understandably feels abandoned and left behind, because they are. The truly remarkable thing is that they are looking to the authors of their misery to fix it.
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Howdy Bob!
That’s the power of belie and the seductiveness of racism and misogyny. A very powerful combination. Reagan used it well to forge a new coalition of evangelicals and blue collar workers. LBJ was completely right. If you tell the lowest person in a social group that they are better than the best person in a rival group, they’ll give you their soul. That’s what we just witnessed in the 2024 election.
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Jack
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I’ve often thought that a large part of the Republican hatred of unions is that the experience of being members with people of other races and faiths in a “The Brotherhood Of ____” can erode racism to a degree.
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It seems to me that in that post WWII era of union expansion, the integration of unions and union shops became an issue. I’m not entirely certain of the history, but racism is the underpinning of all of our social institutions, there’s no reason to think that it isn’t in unions, too.
Jack
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Oh, it is, but once segregation of unions (separate ones for Black and White) gets broken, as it was in the Rust Belt with the Great Migration, it can be eroded slowly. Still, the real core is residential segregation, and that persists even without official red lining.
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Howdy Bob!
Residential segregation persists to this day with or without redlining. Many realtors either knowingly or unknowingly help enforce it. Private schools took off in the South and other areas when schools were segregated just to defy the order. You can’t legislate racism away. Whatever the generation of kids who came of age just before and after Trump’s election have the lowest levels of racial prejudice. Unfortunately, those coming of age now will have some of the highest.
One of the things I’m stuck on is the disparity between the high- and low-information voter. On #Sisters-In-Law, they mentioned it again. Without a legal and transparent way of combating disinformation, we’ll remain vulnerable to it. And, the Republicans are not likely to want legislate around it.
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Jack
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The only real cure for structural racism is a change in structure, children of different races and mixed races growing up together from Day Care to adult, playing, dating, and, yes, (Oh, the horror!) even marrying. The same goes for anti-LGBTQ prejudice, the normalization of those differences through familiarity.
Disinformation is the enemy of thought. How to fight it is going to be an ongoing question for a long time.
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Howdy Bob!
I’ve started thinking of disinformation in the way I think of billionaires.
One of the biggest problems we have is that billionaires have so much more buying power than everyone else. The difference is overwhelming, and our billionaire class has simply bought our politicians thanks to John Roberts.
The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is analogous to the difference between newspapers and the Internet and social media. With disinformation moving at the speed of Twitter, it just overwhelms our information spaces in the same way the millions that a billionaire can spend overwhelms our political spaces.
We have to do something differently than we have been, but what? We cannot continue to allow the billionaires to buy our politics and disinformation to swamp our information. The question is how do we stop it?
Huzzah!
Jack
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I think that whatever would work on either problem, or both (they are intertwined) would look like a revolution.
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YOU WROTE –“Now that these voters have set us on a course to self-destruction, do you think there is anyway we can change course?”
MY ANSWER: We are in Stage 5 of empirical decline and on the brink of stage 6.
This means that we have arrived at the point where the beginning of sorrows starts with the democrat-ruled states of the union doing their best to resist the dictates of the authoritarian right wing at the federal level. This, in turn, sets the stage for violent responses from the dictatorship– (A kind of night of the broken glass scenario for all who oppose the federals.) This, in turn, leads to a seriously violent mini-revolution from some angry patriots inspired by the democrat side– a revolution which will be lost with many martyrs —
This state of affairs opens the entire nation to insurrections everywhere and the massive loss of life of innocent civilians.
This, in turn, opens the doors for the weakening of the nation to the point where foreign adversaries start to see advantages in making military forays into our borders… first by attacks by foreign agents (Blaming the democrats of course) and later when our military has been weakened, to the point of actually skirmishing with us in various locations… foreign and domestic….. and finally all-out war with a new axix of evil composed of Russia and China and one other whom I have not determined….
This, in turn results in the decay and destruction of all ideas of Law and Order and creates a state of Anarchy ….and the ultimate demise of America as she was once known….of course I have to add, “That America that once was.. the one where millions of american service people died gave their lives to protect against enemies —all the wars from the Revolution to Afghanistan fought in vain….
Only a miracle can change our course now…. Half the country has gone absolutely insane and will drag themselves and all the rest of us into oblivion..and there is no turning back because we have crossed the Rubicon.
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Howdy John!
And, I thought I was in a dark place.
What you’re saying tracks with what the scholars who track the ebb and flow of democracy in other countries have found. It is the fear of violence and crime that pushes authoritarianism and undermines democracy. And, violence is being committed primarily by the right wing. #ScienceFact.
We really are trapped between a rock and hard place. When the election was between democracy and fascism and fascism wins, we’re swimming upstream against a very strong current. My biggest takeaway from the election so far is that the GOP voter suppression tactics and insulation from electoral accountability has worked, so now what?
We can only expect more violence in our future. The stage has been set for it.
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Jack
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Hello Jack —- I would like to explain something else that I have come to believe…and that is this: Trump has approximately 100 days to get a lot of the promises he has made up and running and showing palpable potential for success and with all that he has promised, and with what little resistance will come from the democrats and from some of his own people if he strays too much toward his authoritarian bent, he will be unsuccessful in accomplishing a lot of his goals and will create an atmosphere of buyer remorse that will multiply until the mid terms at which time the democrats (If they can get their shit together) will be back in town again. That eventuality will serve as a check and balance against him for the rest of his term (If things work right) and, of course, at this writing, this is his final opportunity to do all his grand standing and actually do something….I remember in his first term he was very well inhibited from going too rogue because of resistance from his advisors…. and though most of them will have been replaced by loyalists, I believe that even his most staunch loyal supporters will have enough residual morality about them to stand against any thing he would propose that is too radical or too corrosive to the common good. So there is a glimmer (Just a glimmer) of hope in all this darkness.
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Howdy John!
I hadn’t realized you were such an optimist. I’m in a much darker place. I see it as Trump appointing blatantly incompetent cabinet members — Matt Gaetzk as AG whoever it s as at Defense!!?! — asking that Senate go immediately into recess so he can make appointments without confirmation hearings and demanding that Biden refrain from making any further government appointments. It all sounds pretty authoritarian to me. And, I don’t think Republicans are going to stand in his way.
As for the 2026 elections, I think they’ll be a repeat of the 2024 elections with Republican voter suppression delivering another resounding victory. I think we’re living in the worst of all possible worlds. I think the centi-billionaires have bought enough of the world’s governments that we’re now living in the age of global oligarchy.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I am not an optimist… I am like the old man holding tightly to the small child on the deck of the Titanic as it was sinking… The old man, with eyes wide with terror, whispered to the child, “We will survive…we will survive!” I entertain false hopes that everything will be alright when I know I am liable to lose everything I have and be destitute on the streets because of this neo-nazi invasion that a little more than 105-million crazy assed voters brought on us…..Of course destitute on the streets will be better than slow death in some camp in the middle of the desert somewhere…..They are already talking about building concentration camps in concert with their mass deportation ideas….I am starting to feel like a Jewish Man in the 1930s Germany….but I could be over-reacting. But optimist? Not a chance. Faith in God? Yes.
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Howdy John!
You deny your optimism like it is a bad thing.
I don’t think you’re over reacting; I just can’t find a glimmer of hope in our future. It all seems bleak to me.
Huzzah!
Jack
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The future is uncertain but as yet it is not really possible to see how bleak it will really be but I am sure that a lot of us will end up penniless and on the streets or in concentration camps or some damnable thing like that….but we all have to go sometime, right?
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At least in a concentration camp, you get a couple of squares and a cot. I’m worried about the welcome that North Dakota gives to the Florida climate refugees when parts of the world and the States become unlivable. MAGA Christian charity stops at the boundary between us and them, and those MAGA Floridian, well, they are definitely going to be them.
Jack
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