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I have to say one good thing about having a conservative like Donald Trump in the White House is that some of us are hearing a lot more from the conservative man and woman in the street now than previously. I think in the recent past they must have been hanging out mostly in their own alternative fact universe of wacky radio shows, tacky and casual with the truth supermarket tabloids, and insane conspiracy theory websites. I remember they were responsible for a great deal of ugliness, hatred, turmoil, and violence in my youth but recently not so much. I thought maybe they had fallen into a great hole in the ground or gone somewhere. Kind of hard to engage with people when one can’t find them or anyway is unwilling to go where they reside. I’ve always heard plenty from professional conservative pundits and spokespeople and so on but as I’ve explained many times in this blog those people talk such transparent rot one never knows what they really think about anything. I always sort of wished I knew what the people who listen to such people thought they were hearing but honestly I just don’t know too many conservatives. But they’re all coming out of the woodwork now aren’t they? Ever time I glance at an online news comment stream there they are trying their best to explain their warped, incoherent, contradictory, horrifying worldview to the rest of us. Fired up I suppose by having gotten their man in the White House and having taken control of both houses of Congress as well as the Supreme Court. I suppose it is a bit disgusting in many ways but from a purely intellectual standpoint there are some interesting bits. One interesting bit for me is that the recent debate on national health care policy has reminded me we have some pretty fundamental disagreements about what American is or should be all about. Let’s take a moment to consider the issue.
The American Dream. We all hear about it from time to time. But what the heck is it? Well, I don’t know. I think it’s different things to different people. I’ve gradually come to understand that for many if not most conservatives it’s basically the dream of getting very rich... Sorry but only selected archived (previous year) posts are currently available full text on this website. All posts including this one are available in my annual anthology ebook series available at the Amazon Kindle Bookstore for a nominal fee. Hey, we all need to make a buck somehow, right? If you find my timeless jewels of wisdom amusing or perhaps even amusingly irritating throw me a bone now and then. Thank you my friends!
