Dulcinea
Dulcinea's JournalShe's in Congress because she's a prolific fundraiser.
Every time she opens her pie-hole, the rubes open their wallets. She's not even from her district. She's originally from suburban Atlanta, where she's too crazy to be elected. She bought property in Redneckistan & got elected from there.
I'm a longtime GA resident, & the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has covered this in some depth.
What the Bible really says:
You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19:34)
They don't care.
Dolt 45 makes his supporters feel powerful in a world that doesn't care about them & has left them behind.
This quote says it all:
Yeah, I said, I heard the speech. But they dont give a damn about that. Hell, make em cry, make em laugh, make em think youre their weak erring pal, or make em think youre God-Almighty. Or make em mad. Even mad at you. Just stir em up, it doesnt matter how or why, and theyll love you and come back for more. Pinch em in the soft place. They arent alive, most of em, and havent been alive in twenty years. Hell, their wives have lost their teeth and their shape, and likker wont set on their stomachs, and they dont believe in god, so its up to you to give em something to stir em up and make em feel alive again. Just for half an hour. Thats what they come for. Tell em anything. But for Sweet Jesus sake dont try to improve their minds.
--Robert Penn Warren, "All the King's Men"
Today is my birthday.
I started the day running a 5K to benefit cancer research, something personally meaningful to me. After getting the outdoor furniture put away for the season & finishing cleaning the house (it had to get done today!) I went out for Mexican food & margaritas with my husband & best friend whose birthday was yesterday, came home for birthday cake, & talked with my college kids. It was a good, full day!
Yes!
We started dating in high school. I went to college & he went to art school, & that led to the demise of the relationship. We reconnected again as young adults, but stayed friends only. We're both married to other people now & are friends on Facebook, but a small part of me will care for him forever. No one has ever made me laugh as hard or appreciated in me what few other people did. I smile every time I think of him, even though I graduated from high school 40 years ago.
That's part of it.
So many of them have tiny, depressing lives. They smoke, drink, & work their dead-end jobs. When there's no job, heroin & opiates enter the picture. They don't read, travel, or even go to the movies. They go grocery shopping, to Walmart, & to church.They're content not to know anything about the big, scary world.
I know this to be true; my father's family was full of people like this. He got an education & a profession & got away from all that. We saw them on holidays until my grandmother died, as did a lot of those relatives.
They're authoritarian personalities.
...There are various different related concepts to that of authoritarianism. These include conservatism, dogmatism, and ethnocentrism. Some focus on thinking style, others on prejudice. Most argue that this attitudinal syndrome rather than a personality trait, occurs for both genetic/heredity and environmental factors. At the core of the theories is the idea of a generalized susceptibility to experience anxiety and threat when confronted by ambiguity or uncertainty.
Thus for various reasons a persons ability and personality, their early life and current circumstances some people feel inferior and insecure and fearful of lack of clarity. Therefore to avoid uncertainty authoritarians dislike anything or anybody that advocates complexity, innovation, novelty, risk or change. They tend to dislike conflict and decision making and subjugate their personal feelings and needs to external authorise. They obey the rules norms, conventions and more importantly insist others do too.
So conservatives and authoritarians get obsessed by ordering and controlling their internal world and external world. They like simplistic, rigid and inflexible duties, laws, morals, obligation and rules. This affects everything from their choice of art to how they vote.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sideways-view/201502/the-mind-the-authoritarian
U.S. Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs
In the United States, there's a record number of jobs open: around 6 million. That's just about one job opening for every officially unemployed person in the country.
Matching the unemployed with the right job is difficult, but there are some things employers could do to improve the odds.
Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist for the job site Glassdoor, says U.S. employers often complain that workers don't have the skills needed for the jobs available. That is true for some upper-level health care and technology jobs. "But for the most part, it doesn't look to be like there is a skills gap," Chamberlain says. "That's not the main reason why there are many job openings."
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547646709/u-s-employers-struggle-to-match-workers-with-open-jobs
Trump Raises an Army
Trumps supporters see him as vector; he sees them as market.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/opinion/trump-harvey-storm-army.html?mcubz=1
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