I am going to limit my interactions with the media for the same reason I stopped watching The Walking Dead. Doing so made me feel sad and powerless. Forget this juvenile argument about how every vote is equal, etc. That just is not true. Every electoral vote is equal and those votes rang in the presidency that has me straight up dumbstruck. I got close to understanding. I felt a flicker of awareness while reading The Chocolate War where it talked about how things always had been and how uncomfortable change made people feel–how those who’d been able to see where they were on the scale and clearly identify who was below them fought to maintain that status quo because it meant they weren’t slipping. I get that part of it.
What I don’t fully grasp is how the need for that type of ‘social security’ outweighs the clear awareness that our literal security in a nuclear globe is being harmed. Trump has a different set of ideas about what is and isn’t real. He is a spoiled rich kid who has never had to deal with the consequences of his actions and still does not. The man openly advised the ‘Nuclear Option’ when it came to a supreme court appointment just a day after there was a question of whether or not his appointee would be expediently confirmed.
Consider the language: Nuclear Option. That means end game politics. I fear that he is a man who believes in end game politics in every sense of the word. In other words, I believe that he lives by the old Autoduel philosophy of ‘The right of way goes to the biggest guns’. This is not a prudent leadership philosophy in a world where using said ‘guns’ will only result in a war of attrition that we are not built to handle. We learned this in both gulf wars. Now we want to start crap with every other dog on the block?
I told a colleague today to look at the bright side of this. If we fear the worst of this administration, we will only leave ourself room for happiness when they fall short of our expectations. I stand by the statement. It is gonna get worse. What really worries me is all of the doomsayers who thought Obama was going to bring us to the end of the world. They thought he was the antichrist. Well, what if Obama did bring us to the end of the world, but they stuck the wrong guy with the bill?