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A friend on FB posted this...
Garrison Keillor:
An article in a current magazine argues that the Trump administration has held a mirror up to the nation and shown us how twisted and irrational and racist and violent we are and how the country needs a cultural revolution. Mr. Trump is not like anybody Ive ever known or met, nobody Im related to, nobody Ive ever worked with, and if indeed he reflects this society, then its obvious that I dont belong here.
What we need is not a revolution but a respect for decency and honesty. My people left Yorkshire and Holland and came to the colonies for economic reasons. Some of them were of a strict religious minority that was somewhat out of tune with the world around them but they were able to live at peace here and practice their faith and not feel persecuted.
But the evidence mounts that the man represents an impulsive, paranoid, self-gratifying, proudly ill-informed, contemptuous view of public office, and if this succeeds in November, the nation is suffering from a death wish and why would a person who loves this country want to stay around and watch more of the same awful drama?
It is horrifying to see how close the race is in Minnesota, my home state. Perhaps I know nothing whatsoever about the Midwest. If so, then who am I? Its an agonizing time.
Joe Biden was a decent senator from a safe seat in a small state, no giant in the Senate, and Democrats were in no rush to nominate him, but the man has risen to the moment, and he has come at Trump good and hard for his sheer indifference and laziness and contempt for the Constitution, his contempt for science and for our military, his psychotic break with reality. He is waging war. Progressives might wish for more but when you're fighting for the life of the country, you don't think long term, you focus on the immediate, and in November we must rid America of this man.
We're in the hands of a showman who has no principles, no idea of what principles are, only a deep craving for attention. Pack him off to Florida and let's have a president.
By: Garrison Keillor
marybourg
(12,642 posts)DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)just shame those white haters. What exactly do they want? (I'm white)
empedocles
(15,751 posts)ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)OMGWTF
(3,980 posts)ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)or think about his tongue. tho i am sure it has been in dirtier places.
KS Toronado
(17,372 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)jaxexpat
(6,862 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,900 posts)"...the Trump administration has held a mirror up to the nation and shown us how twisted and irrational and racist and violent we are and how the country needs a cultural revolution. Mr. Trump is not like anybody Ive ever known or met, nobody Im related to, nobody Ive ever worked with, and if indeed he reflects this society, then its obvious that I dont belong here.... What we need is not a revolution but a respect for decency and honesty."
The most disheartening thing about Trump is not that he's awful, but that there are so many people who approve of him - even worship him. What is wrong with our country that such a man could be revered by so many when he shouldn't even be tolerated?
DFW
(54,448 posts)It's not that Trump has abandoned any principles he once had.
He not only never had any, he has no concept of what they are. I share Keillor's horror in the realization that so many people in our country think that is just fine.
eppur_se_muova
(36,305 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Basic LA
(2,047 posts)Take me back to Lake Woebegone, where the women are strong, the men are good looking, & all the children are above average.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Saturday afternoon at 5:00 PM was PHC time.
gulliver
(13,197 posts)That's what is happening in fact. Trump supporters want to bring on the flood. We need a "good show" for everyone to watch. That's what will displace Trump.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,467 posts)have been living the reality of what this country is our whole lives.
aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)But at least we'll have decent leadership.
Blue Owl
(50,532 posts)gristy
(10,667 posts)There, fixed it.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Hekate
(90,865 posts)Submariner
(12,511 posts)I'd be willing to give him a pass on the prison thing.
UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)CanonRay
(14,121 posts)Colder than frozen shit
Martin Eden
(12,880 posts)Spot-on!
idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)Owl
(3,645 posts)panfluteman
(2,073 posts)It's that last word, POWER, that Garrison left out of his piece, which I feel is also crucial to understanding Donald Trump. Trump probably has his own wet dreams of using that total power to mercilessly crush all who oppose him, and all who he imagines slighted or disrespected him. Gaining absolute power is Trump's way of getting even with a world that he feels victimized him.
mahina
(17,715 posts)Where could any of us go?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/2020/08/borders-are-closing-to-americans-coronavirus-heres-where-you-can-still-go-cvd/
I didnt know Mexico was still possible, not sure its right.