And then there is blindness
As you know I am a Mavericks and basketball fan and with
free agency about to start I fear the Mavericks are about to blow it again. As
a fan I have high hopes. I can turn my eyes away from the past and hope somehow
Cuban and the gang finally find the elusive top free agent(s) and the Mavericks
become relevant again. As a fan I can believe.
And as a fan I can be rational and be mad at Cuban for
blowing the last five years. He has a coach who is a great team coach. Coach
Carlisle is probably better coaching a really good team up than having one
superstar and a team trying to compliment the superstar. You may say he did
that with Dirk in 2011. Really though that was a very good team with a
superstar that focused on being a team. This is Carlisle’s strength. Too bad
Mr. Cuban seems to be unaware of what he has in his Coach and how he should be
finding players for him.
And there again I can believe. I can turn a blind eye to the
rational and cheer when free agency starts hoping that somehow this is the
magical year and we get Whiteside and Conley. We find all the right
complementary players and Dirk and Dallas acquire another championship. Go
Mavs.
I can do this because it is sports. Yes, if it doesn’t
happen all us MFFLs will be disappointed, mad, frustrated etc, but the world
goes on. There will be next year and the next year and sooner or later Dirk
will retire and we will wait years for a team to hopefully rebuild. We lived
through the nineties.
When you are so blind to the cause that you have lost
complete rational thinking, when you believe only what the cause wants you to
believe without ever looking at the whole picture that is a dangerous
blindness. And this is especially dangerous when your blindness prevents you
from realizing that the cause you are supporting is death to much more than a
sports team or some other secondary entertainment in life. This is the problem
both Trump and Clinton supporters own.
Our country is in trouble. Yes, we have had bad or non-descript
Presidents before. Pretty much anyone after Lincoln till 1900 doesn’t make the
radar for great American Presidents. We lived through it. Now though our
Country and the world are a different place. And what both of these candidates
represent is the worse in America and American politics. They are horrible for
different reasons, yet they are both horrible.
You cannot tell their supporters anything. They both have a
core group that is blind to the truth of either one. And add onto this the
group of people who have such hate for one of the candidates they are willing
to be blind and vote for the other candidate. Another dangerous blindness:
hate.
And here we are about to enter into the general election to
choose one of these individuals to lead our country. And if we were just some
third world country who has suffered through horrible dictator after dictator
maybe this would only continue our personal misery. No, this is the United
States and whether you like it or not, we are way too involved in the world for
this to be good for us or the world.
If you tell a supporter of one of the candidates we need
someone else, you get overrun with an unconscious vitriol about how you know nothing
and that if we do not elect their candidate horrible things are going to
happen. And when I say someone else I
mean telling them someone other than the opposite candidate, they still ramble
on about it is their candidate only who has the answer. Now to be honest and
fair, the Trump supporters do possess a bit more emotional rhetoric, yet the
Clinton supporters spout off in the same blind way as to the greatness of their
candidate and there is no need to look at anyone else.
And while both candidates offer at the very least nothing of
substance to the Country, both in their worst actions could do potentially irreversible
harm to our country. And add on that Mr. Trump is probably doing irreversible
harm to the Republican party. I wouldn’t mind so much since I am not a fan of
either party except the fallout from the Republican demise may create a
somewhat viable true right wing party that could be dangerous and even obtain
some power in our country. This is not what the world needs now.
Anyway being blind to one of your favorite sports teams is
well maybe not good and does only harm to your expectations. It plays out in
the game and you can pick up the pieces of your emotions at the end of the year
and hope for better next year.
Blindness at the level of the Trump and Clinton supporters
is something ugly, scary, and dangerous. There could be no next year.
With basketball or any sport or hobby at least you can admit
the truth in the back of your mind and still hope for the best. And yes I am hooked for the Mavericks and
I love basketball and sometimes this song says it all:
Part four of the story will be coming shortly
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