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Thoughts On 2017
9 years ago
General
You know what? As a lot of the American Public start to realize that Donald Trump is a snake oil salesman, a lot more people than that just might be giving up on saviours and taking their lives in their own hands. If you want to make the world right, you have to do it yourself. And maybe people are going to start trying to make the world, or at least their part of it, a better place.
The problem still is -- as it's always been -- that nobody agrees on what "better" means. We still have the same old scapegoats and enemies... the Repugnicans, the Democrats, the libtard elite, the unwashed rednecks, the niggers, the latinos, the muslims, the jews, the cops, the west, the establishment, blah blah blah... and nobody wants to listen to the other guy, especially while Fox News, (or Global News here in Canuckistan), keeps telling them to fear and hate The Other Guy, on a variety of pretexts wider than my waistline. And who can blame you? Which of it is true is a helluva lot to think about! You have to cut mental corners just to get through it all!
But relying on appearances, prejudices and rumours is exactly the problem. It would be nice if we could just assume that 99.9% of the people we meet are okay and the 0.1% we need to worry about are manageable. And that's almost certainly the case. But how do you convince the majority when they already have too much to think about? As the motto under all of my journals says...
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. And when the tough get going, the going gets really grim!
Buckle up, folks. 2017 is likely to be a rough ride!
The problem still is -- as it's always been -- that nobody agrees on what "better" means. We still have the same old scapegoats and enemies... the Repugnicans, the Democrats, the libtard elite, the unwashed rednecks, the niggers, the latinos, the muslims, the jews, the cops, the west, the establishment, blah blah blah... and nobody wants to listen to the other guy, especially while Fox News, (or Global News here in Canuckistan), keeps telling them to fear and hate The Other Guy, on a variety of pretexts wider than my waistline. And who can blame you? Which of it is true is a helluva lot to think about! You have to cut mental corners just to get through it all!
But relying on appearances, prejudices and rumours is exactly the problem. It would be nice if we could just assume that 99.9% of the people we meet are okay and the 0.1% we need to worry about are manageable. And that's almost certainly the case. But how do you convince the majority when they already have too much to think about? As the motto under all of my journals says...
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. And when the tough get going, the going gets really grim!
Buckle up, folks. 2017 is likely to be a rough ride!
The world didn't end. Nobody's dead. In fact, more women then ever in US history are campaigning for public office. Trump is president; not emperor. You don't like him? Become politically active. Learn to talk to people. Like the man said, being offended doesn't work anymore. Now you have to convince people that you really are right.
2017 will be rough only if people don't stop screaming about the shit they can't fix and concentrate of the things they can.