Two posts for the price of one: A) Is MAGA nihilistic? B) And this upside down world is beyond tiring

 

So part A is a widely discussed set of madness from both conservative and liberal writers. You can find articles on this topic from the Atlantic to the (pacific, sorry couldn’t resist) New York Times to the Bulwark to the Guardian and more. And even a website called the Conversation.

So why bother adding to this list of esteemed writers if this has been dissected before? I don’t know, but maybe it just helps to understand that one third of this country has no direction except it thinks it does, yet others include many thoughts, hate, apathy, or as on the Conversation, the author references Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky saying: “explored what happens to society when people who rise to power lack any semblance of ideological or moral convictions and view society as bereft of meaning.” Trump feels it has meaning, meaning for him. Or Tom Nichols saying the movement is less about policy or compromise and more about pure destruction and political anger. Or how about in the New Republic the article talks about the rule-breaking approach of Trump administration figures, arguing their actions are performance-driven rather than goal-driven. And this to me is more about greed than nihilism.

And this last statement is part of the problem. Where does the apathy of some meet the greed of others? And maybe it isn’t apathy, but a complete throwing in of the towel to society can be better way to say, which is more nihilistic. Apathy is lack of caring whether it be a better world, or a better person while nihilism is complete dismissal of life or what it offers in general if you want my distinction.

But you didn’t ask for that, so let’s move on. Nihilism is the philosophical belief that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. So yes it is a step further from reality than apathy. Yet does MAGA truly meet this definition? I do not think so.

There are subsets of thinking behind nihilism that also do not describe MAGA. Some of these are the core principal mentioned above, moral, cosmic or epistemological nihilism. That last one is a mouthful, anyway they all pretty much say the same thing, there is no knowledge and it doesn’t matter what you do to keep it super simple.

Now Trump’s administration demonstrates moral nihilism by definition, but really they are either power driven or greed driven. They care, but for all the wrong things morally.

MAGA wants something I just do not think they know what they want. This is probably what causes this confusion around nihilism. And whatever they want they are motivated by some type of hate partly caused by Democrats and partly by Fox News. Yet to say they don’t care or have no compass, yet it may not be pointing north, that isn’t the case. Does what they want have meaning? If not then you can apply some nihilistic tendencies? I think buried deep there is some meaning. Now it may be based on principles antagonistic to our country’s values even though wrapped in patriotic fervor. In fact some of it is antagonistic to our values, but they believe lies that let them think they are the patriots. The problem is why they believe these lies, yet the reason is not because they are nihilistic.

So all you great writers time to get out the pen and paper and try to figure out what is driving them. Something is and until we figure that out and counter balance it correctly this MAGA movement ripping up our country is too entrenched for us to be able to have a rational government. Hence we are stuck with the charlatan Trump and all the destruction he is doing to our country until you great thinkers throw out another philosophy to muse on.

Or another words, dare I say……… we need something new. The old ways are dying before our eyes. MAGA is just one monstrous symptom of the underlying moral decay cancer eating away at our country that some of us are tired of watching. MAGA is not the disease, it is a part of the body showing the disease.

 

And now for B:

That moral decay is what is right side up right now in our country. There are answers to our problems, even good ones. Until we find the leaders who are willing to stand up to the monsters we slowly rot and the greatest government experiment on the planet turns to mush.

And yes I know there are a few voices trying, yet until they break through the madness of social media, the loud quiet of so many Americans who spend more time trying to budget than pay attention to what is causing their budget morass we are in trouble.

What is wrong is up and what is right is buried deep beneath the wrong. And for those of you who follow my second blog on Substack, you know we live here on earth, where some are headed to the City of God, while others live in the city of man. My creek for the moment is why can’t we sail through the city of man and do the work of the moral high ground. There are hints we can. So how do we claw our way back to the earth and bury the demons that do not want us to do what is right? And you do not have to believe in demons to see the upside down aspect of our world right now. I just ask you to open your eyes and realize change won’t happen until we get the courage to confront the demons of greed, power, lust for earthly things and more. There is nothing wrong with being successful, it is appreciating what opportunities you were given and allowing others to share in the beauty of what we are given.

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After fifty years the Democrats are starting to wake up

 

I am including a link to an article that says everything I have been saying for decades, maybe not in the same words, but generally speaking.

The democrats have been clueless for a long time. This article is couched that the Democrats have sucked up to Wall Street and more, yet overall it says the Democrats quit being Democrats and to me that is basically why I have been calling them clueless elitists. 

I am including the article for reference. Since I am a conservative I tend to fear too much government spending especially with the enormous debt we are carrying so I cannot jump on the policies in the article. Yet it is the Democrats actually trying to do something again and some of the ideas are workable if managed well.

Republicans whether Reagan, RINO or MAGA will immediately denounce these ideas because they are now incompetent when it comes to governing. That is the one talking point Democrats have had for years that is correct. Otherwise and this article calls it out indirectly neither party has cared for the vast majority of Americans for an extremely long time. The article even references how Trump won in 2016 by appealing to the working class in the rust belt. Of course that is well known history, yet people especially Democrats have glossed over that for years.

So have some people in the elite DC circles and elite press circles starting to wake up to what has been obvious for decades. We need new parties. On occasion I have said if either the Republicans or Democrats get it together and change then that would work too.

Apparently or maybe that may be happening if you read this article. I need to see more. Again as a conservative I would rework some of their ideas, but at least they are doing more than lip service and whining. They are putting some work into change.

We will see what happens. Maybe we can claw something together from the ashes of the Republican party that Trump is burning down. And finally go forward putting the people of this country first.

Whether liberal or conservative we need to get money out of politics which includes as the article mentions getting rid of super PACS and even more, stricter rules on lobbyists, (if you try to eliminate them you will get too many lawsuits around freedom of speech) and stop gerrymandering all together. That has done more to prop up the duopoly and stifled true representation of the people. Make the candidates earn their seat and we will get better governance and policy.

Here is the link:

This phony Democrat got blown out of the water — and that's terrifying for Trump | Opinion

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