I said I think Trump will win his party's nomination, not that I think he's
constructive in what he says and does.
He's giving Isis confirmation that there is a west-Islam divide. His
remarks against Muslims, women, Mexicans, the disabled /... did I leave
anyone out... helps the Empire builders keep us fighting each other.
Besides, he's a jerk.
Abby
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Miriam Vieni
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 7:29 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: A Crisis in White America
Yes, but while he is running and making the kind of speeches that he makes,
he is encouraging racist violence in people and I'm reading articles every
day about Muslims and mosques, and people who are mistaken for Muslims,
being attacked. Additionally, all the anger that he is stoking in people is
causing them to support our insane wars in the Middle East and those wars
will encourage actual terrorist attacks in Europe and the US.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Abby Vincent
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 7:53 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: A Crisis in White America
I guess it won't help when the angry old white guys die off. We still have
aging angry and sick unemployed aging middle aged white guys. I must have a
guardian angel,. I got a job at age 48 that came with a lucrative buy out
when I was 55. After that I got some fun part-time gigs. I'm pissed off at
these Trump supporters, but at the same time, I have compassion for them.
Trump will win the Republican nomination. Either Sanders or Clinton could
wipe the floor with him in debates. It's going to be fun.
Abby
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Hachey
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 1:18 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] A Crisis in White America
Hi all,
Here's a thought provoking opinion piece from last week's Boston Globe. IT
makes a good deal of sense, but I'm not as sure as the author is of whether
or not Trump will be our next president. I know plenty of folks who fit into
the description of white America depicted here. My wife Donna falls part way
into this group in that she is always in pain, living with less and not very
happy in general. In the beginning, she liked some of what she heard from
Trump; Good thing I talked her out of that nonsense.
I guess the real question here is will we learn any lessons from the Trump
Campaign, or are we on the verge of a truly fascist America?
Bob Hachey
opinion Niall Ferguson
Donald Trump pounces on the ills of white America .
Maybe last week wasn't the week to start watching Amazon's dazzling new
screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle. Or maybe
it was. Dick's 1962 novel imagines a fascist America - or, to be precise, an
America partitioned between the Axis powers after a Second World War that
has ended in defeat for the Allies. The east of the country is under the
thumb of Nazi Germany; the Western states are colonies in the Japanese
"co-prosperity sphere. Like Philip Roth's more recent book "The Plot Against
America" - which imagines a Nazification from within after the pro-Hitler
aviator Charles Lindbergh becomes president in 1941 - this nightmare vision
is compelling precisely because it has what the comedian Stephen Colbert
calls "truthiness. We know it didn't happen. But we can (with a shudder)
imagine it. After all, the fate of defeat and oc'cup'ation by the Axis
powers was suffered by a great many countries. And there was no shortage of
American sympathizers with the Nazis. On Sept. 11, 1941, in a speech in Des
Moines, Iowa, Lindbergh accused "Jewish groups in this country" of
"agitating for war. Two years earlier a Fortune magazine poll had asked: "If
you were a member of Congress, would you vote yes or no on a bill to open
the doors . . . to a larger number of European refugees? Eighty-five percent
of Protestants and 84 percent of Catholics answered no. Scot Lehigh: Trump
masters the art of demagoguery Joanna Weiss: Disinvite Trump from the
debates Michael A. Cohen: Republicans have enabled Trump's demagoguery So
here we are again. Like Lindbergh, Donald Trump combines racism with
isolationism. He wants to make America "great again" by keeping it out of
foreign wars. And, like the far right of the 1930s, Trump also wants to keep
out refugees on religious grounds. Last Monday, responding to the San
Bernardino massacre, he called for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims
entering the United States. Time and again this year I have been told that
Trump has jumped the shark. Yet the latest national CBS News/New York Times
poll shows that he has the support of 35 percent of Republican primary
voters, far ahead of his nearest rival, Ted Cruz. What is going on? The
conventional answer is that many Americans, dismayed by their deteriorating
economic prospects, are experiencing a surge of populist rage - much like
National Front voters in France. But it is not immediately obvious that
standard economics can explain this. Unemployment in France is twice as high
as it is here. A second answer is that this is a revolt against widening
inequality - an argument bolstered by the news that, for the first time
since 1970, middle-class households are outnumbered by lower- and
upper-class households. Yet people do not become racists just because they
drop out of the middle class. The nearest thing to an answer I can find is
in an astounding new paper by the Nobel laureate Angus Deaton and Anne Case,
which exposes what can only be called an existential crisis of white America
- to be precise, badly educated white America. All over the Western world
mortality rates are declining and lifespans are lengthening. But not in
white America, and especially not among those white Americans whose
education didn't go beyond secondary school. For this group, the mortality
rate from poisonings (mostly drug overdoses) rose more than fourfold between
1999 and 2013, from 14 to 58 per 100,000. Mortality from chronic liver
diseases including cirrhosis rose by 50 percent. If the white mortality rate
had continued to fall at its pre-1999 rate of 1.8 percent a year, nearly
half a million deaths would have been avoided in the period 1999-2013. The
white underclass is not so much mad as hell as sick as hell. One in three
white people aged 45-54 report chronic joint pain, one in five neck pain,
and one in seven sciatica. Presumably, it's the most miserable who drug or
drink themselves into early graves. The rest just exit the workforce, opting
for disability benefits. Small wonder labor force participation in America
has declined so steeply, even as it has risen in other developed countries.
Small wonder Trump is polling so well. He is the sick people's sick
candidate. "The Man in the High Castle" is fiction, not history. The Axis
powers could never have beaten America, even with a president inferior to
Franklin Roosevelt. In the end Trump will turn out to be fiction, too.
Either sanity will prevail between now and the Republican National
Convention, or Trump will be beaten by Hillary Clinton, much as Wendell
Wilkie (another maverick businessman) was beaten by Roosevelt in 1940. The
lesson of real history is that candidates such as Trump are the Democrats'
best friends. Niall Ferguson is professor of history at Harvard and a senior
fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford. Related: Evan Horowitz: Trump
blazes a European path in American politics The Word: Why Donald Trump
trumps Donald Drumpf Michael A. Cohen: We're just living in Trump's world
Scot Lehigh: Donald Trump, the unrivaled braggart Jeff Jacoby: Trump is no
champion of the little guy
