[blind-democracy] My emails

From: "Miriam Vieni" <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:11:09 -0500

I know. No one can tell me if it's my service provider or a virus. It isn't
my old email program because Live Mail does the same thing.

Miriam

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Driscoll
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 10:08 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump Voters Will Not Like What Happens Next

Miriam:

This is not a complaint.

The following message was repeated four times.

Garrison is beginning to show signs of early dementia in my opinion.

Richard

On 11/12/2016 6:58 AM, Miriam Vieni wrote:

Here's Garrison Keillor. Obviously, he's angry. But clearly, his
picture of who will be most hurt is skewed, as is his picture of
America. He's focused on his former teachers, in their 90's, former
fighters in our wars which, apparently, he considers to have been
glorious. He's managed to forget who the majority of the American
population is in 2016 and who Trump's followers are already
victimizing. Really, I'd like to write an angry letter to Keillor!

Miriam

Keillor writes: "For the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on
this country will fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The
uneducated white males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and
they will not like what happens next."

Supporters listen as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
speaks during a campaign stop at the Allen County War Memorial
Coliseum, Sunday, May 1, 2016, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (photo: Darron
Cummings/AP)


Trump Voters Will Not Like What Happens Next By Garrison Keillor, The
Washington Post
11 November 16

Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality.
  So he won. The nation takes a deep breath. Raw ego and proud
illiteracy have won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a
real character problem will be president. We are so exhausted from
thinking about this election, millions of people will take up
leaf-raking and garage cleaning with intense pleasure. We liberal
elitists are wrecks. The Trumpers had a whale of a good time, waving
their signs, jeering at the media, beating up protesters, chanting "Lock

her up" - we elitists just stood and clapped.

Nobody chanted "Stronger Together." It just doesn't chant.
The Trumpers never expected their guy to actually win the thing, and
that's their problem now. They wanted only to whoop and yell, boo at
the H-word, wear profane T-shirts, maybe grab a crotch or two, jump in
the RV with a couple of six-packs and go out and shoot some spotted
owls. It was pleasure enough for them just to know that they were
driving us wild with dismay - by "us," I mean librarians, children's
authors, yoga practitioners, Unitarians, bird-watchers, people who
make their own pasta, opera-goers, the grammar police, people who keep
books on their shelves, that bunch. The Trumpers exulted in knowing we
were tearing our hair out. They had our number, like a bratty kid who
knows exactly how to make you grit your teeth and froth at the mouth.
Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country
will fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated white
males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like
what happens next.
To all the patronizing B.S. we've read about Trump expressing the
white working-class's displacement and loss of the American Dream, I
say, "Feh!" - go put your head under cold water. Resentment is no
excuse for bald-faced stupidity. America is still the land where the
waitress's kids can grow up to become physicists and novelists and
pediatricians, but it helps a lot if the waitress and her husband
encourage good habits and the ambition to use your God-given talents
and the kids aren't plugged into electronics day and night. Whooping
it up for the candidate of cruelty and ignorance does less than nothing

for your kids.

We liberal elitists are now completely in the clear. The government is
in Republican hands. Let them deal with him. Democrats can spend four
years raising heirloom tomatoes, meditating, reading Jane Austen,
traveling around the country, tasting artisan beers, and let the
Republicans build the wall and carry on the trade war with China and
deport the undocumented and deal with opioids, and we Democrats can go
for a long , brisk walk and smell the roses.
I like Republicans. I used to spend Sunday afternoons with a bunch of
them, drinking Scotch and soda and trying to care about NFL football. It

was fun.

I tried to think like them. (Life is what you make it. People are people.
When the going gets tough, tough noogies.) But I came back to liberal
elitism.
Don't be cruel. Elvis said it, and it's true. We all experienced
cruelty back in our playground days - boys who beat up on the timid,
girls who made fun of the homely and naive - and most of us, to our
shame, went along with it, afraid to defend the victims lest we become
one of them. But by your 20s, you should be done with cruelty. Mr.
Trump was the cruelest candidate since George Wallace. How he won on
fear and bile is for political pathologists to study. The country is
already tired of his noise, even his own voters. He is likely to
become the most intensely disliked president since Herbert Hoover. His
children will carry the burden of his name. He will never be happy in
his own skin. But the damage he will do to our country - who knows?
His supporters voted for change, and boy, are they going to get it.
Back to real life. I went up to my home town the other day and ran
into my gym teacher, Stan Nelson, looking good at 96. He commanded a
landing craft at Normandy on June 6, 1944, and never said a word about
it back then, just made us do chin-ups whether we wanted to or not. I
saw my biology teacher Lyle Bradley, a Marine pilot in the Korean War,
still going bird-watching in his 90s. I was not a good student then, but I

am studying both of them now.

They have seen it all and are still optimistic. The past year of
politics has taught us absolutely nothing. Zilch. Zero. Nada. The future

is scary.

Let the uneducated have their day. I am now going to pay more
attention to teachers.
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Supporters listen as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
speaks during a campaign stop at the Allen County War Memorial
Coliseum, Sunday, May 1, 2016, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (photo: Darron
Cummings/AP)
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Trump Voters Will Not Like What Happens Next By Garrison Keillor, The
Washington Post
11 November 16
Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality.
o he won. The nation takes a deep breath. Raw ego and proud
illiteracy have won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a
real character problem will be president. We are so exhausted from
thinking about this election, millions of people will take up
leaf-raking and garage cleaning with intense pleasure. We liberal
elitists are wrecks. The Trumpers had a whale of a good time, waving
their signs, jeering at the media, beating up protesters, chanting
"Lock her up" - we elitists just stood and clapped. Nobody chanted

"Stronger Together." It just doesn't chant.

The Trumpers never expected their guy to actually win the thing, and
that's their problem now. They wanted only to whoop and yell, boo at
the H-word, wear profane T-shirts, maybe grab a crotch or two, jump in
the RV with a couple of six-packs and go out and shoot some spotted
owls. It was pleasure enough for them just to know that they were
driving us wild with dismay - by "us," I mean librarians, children's
authors, yoga practitioners, Unitarians, bird-watchers, people who
make their own pasta, opera-goers, the grammar police, people who keep
books on their shelves, that bunch. The Trumpers exulted in knowing we
were tearing our hair out. They had our number, like a bratty kid who
knows exactly how to make you grit your teeth and froth at the mouth.
Alas for the Trump voters, the disasters he will bring on this country
will fall more heavily on them than anyone else. The uneducated white
males who elected him are the vulnerable ones, and they will not like
what happens next.
To all the patronizing B.S. we've read about Trump expressing the
white working-class's displacement and loss of the American Dream, I
say, "Feh!" - go put your head under cold water. Resentment is no
excuse for bald-faced stupidity. America is still the land where the
waitress's kids can grow up to become physicists and novelists and
pediatricians, but it helps a lot if the waitress and her husband
encourage good habits and the ambition to use your God-given talents
and the kids aren't plugged into electronics day and night. Whooping
it up for the candidate of cruelty and ignorance does less than nothing