I’m freaked out by how little people know about their candidates. I’m more freaked about where they are getting their information. According to one voting age student Hillary Clinton has murder charges against her, is personally responsible for people dying in the Benghazi terror attack, and really wants to kill babies. Meanwhile, Trump is a stand up guy who takes no nonsense and will put our country back on track. On track for what, she won’t say (or even knows). Still, I have to remember who I was as a young person. I remember liking Bill Clinton for his smooth sax-playing ways and charming smile and thinking he was, in a social way, the first black president. His presence allowed me to ignore the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Is that really any different than these folks liking Trump because he treats other people we dislike like crap?
I wish I could say it is different, but part of what I was getting at in that late night blog about the issue is that Trump represents the discontent of a lot of people. That rage springs up out of somewhere and is the same rage that drives extremism. It is the anger and unwillingness to embrace common sense that allows us to label people. It is the fundamental flaw of any people who are not, ultimately, happy with the way things are.
Politicians professionally tap into that rage well and bring about changes that benefit themselves financially and help to reinforce a world view they enjoy and are employed by. What can we do or say about the situation? Well, nothing.
Except have the common sense to vote for someone else.
Some Thoughts:
- Here is something dancers inherently understand that the rest of us figure out eventually: Clothes are just forms of expression that are interchangeable and don’t actually define who you are. It is just a costume.
- I’ve lost faith in the combine as anything more than a tool to help me understand what the eventual stats of my Madden 17 players. We’ve seen them in action, which is far more telling than catching passes and running sprints and throwing balls under no coverage or blitz whatsoever.