First of all, have you ever noticed that when a person is
told something and especially if it what they want to hear it is just about
impossible to get them to realize the first person is wrong. You may see this
at your work or other endeavors in your life. For example, someone tells a
person to visit your place of employment, and unfortunately, they were given
incorrect information. So here you are the person that works or has the
information they truly need, and there are other people or factors at your work
and yet it takes two or three people to convince them the random person they
spoke to earlier is incorrect. And there are variations of this or nuances that
make this different, yet overall I am sure you have seen something that fits
into this category. Hold onto this thought for a moment
I should probably do an internet search for this since I do
not know if anyone has come up with this, (takes the fun out of it to discover
you are late to the party) yet I like this thought. So, in my eyes I am playing
with potentially a new label---hyper conservatism. I am not sure exactly how to
define this yet and why I don’t want to look it up. In my new definition, it is
not the alt right, it is not Regan Republicanism on steroids, it is more of
following conservatism down the wrong path to not being able to distinguish fact
from fiction. The alt right knows they are spewing craziness so it is not
related to them. It is not Fox News, but where Fox News gets some of its’
audience. They are in some ways truly conservative such as belief in smaller
government and less over reaching government, fiscal and social conservative
policies, lowering taxes, more control by local government yes, a bit of
Reaganism, but not the trickle down and other specifics to Reagan policies, yet
for some reason they cannot rid themselves of being led by leadership in their
ideals into believing certain policies are conservative that do not benefit
them. You may recognize some of these traits. Okay so see the above
paragraph,,, starting to tie this together, for now though we move on.
I am going to change directions for a moment into the
conspiracy mode for a moment. First of all, though I am glad the Treasury
Department turned down the request for a waiver from the sanctions by
ExxonMobil to drill in Russia. When they applied conspiracy theory mode went
into hyper drive in my brain. Still all this saber rattling by Trump with Syria
and especially with North Korea had (has) me worried. Now why would anyone mess
around with the idea of throwing Nukes at each other. Well if you believe in
the Trump/Russia connection, you should have an underlying reason for them to
get together. Well Russia has been in an economic slump since oil prices have
dropped significantly so what if all this noise is only really about getting
the price of oil to skyrocket. Yep plain ole simple greed. Hence the worry when
ExxonMobil applied to drill in Russia, looks like much tying together of this
reason. And of course, a nicely placed escalation in Syria (Middle East) is
also not a bad way to escalate tensions and oil prices. Now they really do not
expect anything to come of this except heightened tensions, consolidation of
power in respective countries, and yes indeed higher oil prices. Keep the
tensions ongoing and well the sky may not be the limit for oil prices, but it may
be high enough to help billionaires become richer, armies stocked up, our
lovely planet more polluted, and the motto becomes again drill baby drill. Russian,
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Seven Sisters, Wall Street, Military Industrial Complex and
a few traders and hedge fund managers to increase their wealth, while the rest
of the world diminishes in resources, power, and overall lifestyle. Yep just
the way a few greedy bastards have been trying to rule the world, well since
Adam and Eve left the garden; only oil gave them the best tool ever
possible. As always, best way to save
the world is to move to renewable energy, rips power right out of their hands and
supplants it with a whole new world of greedy people. Oh well the cycle of life
isn’t perfect, but at least there is new wealth, new opportunities for awhile
and a much prettier, cleaner, and healthier planet in the long run.
Okay well end of the worn-out conspiracy theories, what
about hyper-conservatism and the guy that get over himself because well he
wants what he wants. Basically, a large core group of Americans, especially
white Americans, but for the original paragraph all people, yet for this post
more specifically older white Americans have been told for so long that the
Republicans were going to make them all rich, the world would be great forever
because of them, and then wham they became aware this wasn’t really coming true
for everyone. The recession showed some vulnerabilities in these thoughts as
people lost savings and houses; also, the working class got tired of the
Democrats not listening to them and wham you have millions of people in one
country now having their dreams diminished and so who is to blame. The easy and
correct answer is Washington D.C. Both parties have become so self-serving it
was obvious to everyone but Washington. Some people rebelled and many turned
their anger to someone who would say I know your pain and I am here to fix it. So,
having gone for so long believing one way of thinking as conservative, they
needed that thinking corrected and wanted someone to tell them they were RIGHT.
And along comes Trump with all sorts of drain the swamp talk and I know all the
enemies destroying this country. They needed this since as per the first paragraph,
they now realized the first person was wrong and someone was telling them what
they now believe to be the correct answer. So, conservatives who were led
astray for years to the point of being hyper-conservatives have gone so far
with what the new person is telling them they are even more closed minded to
alternatives than ever before. They have found their answer. Unfortunately, for
our Country, Trump got to them first before a rational conservative alternative
could have sprung up. In 2016 this country was ripe for change, we just went
backwards and sideways in a horrible way.
There is more that caused this misdirection than what this
post is about, but it is more of the psychology of what led to the ease of
Trump becoming successful. And this is important to know because once the deal
goes down with Trump when either he is found innocent or guilty, going back to the
first paragraph, one half of the country is not going to belief the answer no
matter how much real evidence is presented. In the immortal words of Trump,
this is going to be “sad” for our country. And the rest of us (okay I know
there are only 2 halves, but you know what I mean in a philosophical sense)
will need to prepare to coalesce around the right answer and bring the losing
side back from the edge of the cliff and yet keep the perspective of the
winning side that we are all in this together and there are many things we
still need to do to get away from what the one percenters etc have done to our
country.
No easy task to say the least.
Finally, why the heck is Congress going to even look at
paying from Trump’s wall. He promised me that Mexico would pay for it. This
alone is enough to remove the President and Congress with a recall election. If
anything, this one issue and statement is what he hung his hat on the whole
election. Passing anything close to paying for it is outright political
treason. (and before you go crazy I am against the wall, yet Trump said we
weren’t paying for it) So If one penny is spent by US citizens for this mess,
RECALL THEM ALL.
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