It’s time such firm believers in tough love, no free lunches and the like were on the receiving end of some of their own axioms …More recently to those in his hometown and likeminded pockets of persons nationwide he has gone from out there social justice, social welfare, manage care, government dependence typical liberal, coddled idiot to citizen political activist saying things the way they would all like to say them and making increasing sense to towns ‘hollowed out by foreign trade,’ ‘forgotten by democrats on their way to the Whitehouse.’ Suffering Middle America people who’ve seen their manufacturing jobs evaporate and no one appears to have a solution to how they are suddenly supposed to provide for families at middle age with no job, prospects of making maybe $8.00 an hour with sparse retraining only sometimes available. Especially with his latest endeavor Michael Moore in Trumpland added to his political commentary and rather extraordinary reads on parts of the country during the campaigns, the election and after; hardly the first time he’s made attempts at being purely political, hoping Fahrenheit 9/11 would perhaps exert some sway 2004 election outcomes away from president George W. Bush, it is arguably his most successful. To them it may seem as if Moore has come full circle, applying his always leftist views in a different way to appeal to Trump voters on the things we can all agree on: we want our kids to go to good schools, we want to all have good, solid, well-paying jobs to support our families, we want ourselves and those we love to have affordable access to healthcare. Beyond old ladies, elderly couples eating cat or dogfood to pay for their lifesaving, life sustaining medications we believe no one should be choosing between their rent, food, their children’s food and say their cancer treatment. We’re all tired of being one job loss, one illness, one oversized medical bill, missed child support payment away from disaster, away from losing our homes, our vehicles we use to get to work, our employment; retirement for those approaching it a pipe dream so far out of reach they don’t know what to do. Fed up of hearing about an economic recovery we’ve yet to see, living in a recession that started a decade before the financial crisis for us and that no one seems interested in helping us out of, giving us the means by which to help ourselves. But it’s those identical leftist, unconventional ideas Michael Moore insists on spouting now once the election has been decided, for better or worse, even he believes worse, reminding us why he hasn’t changed and why we shouldn’t be taking his advice any more than we did, should have when he debuted Bowling For Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11. Compassion for Trump supporters, a fair smattering of whom are racist, white supremacist, immigrant hating Xenophobes, islamaphobes, certainly not everyone but enough, others blatantly homophobic, sexist you name it. Prescribing we not laugh at a person, ecstatic about Trump asking inauguration day why media didn’t cover the Trump assassination attempt, scoffing sarcastically saying oh ok! when the media person tells him it didn’t happen; what happened was a man yelled gun at an event rally, the secret service covered Trump ushered him off stage, confirmed the safety of the venue, no gun ever found, then Trump came back on stage resuming the rally, comments about violence and assassination proliferated by him. Admonishing us not to laugh at people who refuse to believe Obamacare saved them money, the 51% having bought into the ‘bowling green massacre’ or the ‘Sweden terror attack’ that wasn’t, perhaps the 55% who believe in massive immigrant, illegal voter fraud to the point where the sane, logical CNN reporter is smacking her head with her hand unsure how to progress her interview when, on top of repeating something housing absolutely no basis in fact, the woman speaking on the panel being interviewed misidentified CNN as the network who alerted her to the story; story apparently originating from internet memes showing pictures of busses someone adding captions about bussing illegals to vote. When the 2 single cases of voter fraud were on behalf of Trump, not Clinton or 3rd party candidates, and consisted of a Iowa woman who tried to vote twice based on his rhetoric votes could be invalidated and an illegal immigrant having an equivalent 6th grade education who thought she could because she is A- a green card holder and after all can own property, get a job, pay taxes, serve in the military, yet not vote simply confused; still given one of the harshest sentences seen for infractions often not resulting in jail time, 8 years so Trump can ramble about election security, localities cracking down on election fraud. Or that president Trump’s supposed voter fraud expert holding evidence 3-5 million illegal voters voted, and for Hillary Clinton, is registered in 3 states, that not in itself illegal but definitely hypocritical as our commander and chief spent weeks calling out people doing the same implying they voted multiple times, in all areas they were registered making their votes improper, and owes tens of thousands in unpaid taxes, allegedly lied about qualification on government job applications, has faced numerous accusations of ethical impropriety in posting theories online. Continued public policy polling’s 51% of Americans who boast about as much respect for checks and balances in government as their elected leader Trump believing he should ignore the judiciary, 14 % who support invading Mexico presumably to ensure they pay for the wall, 46% who want a white history month, these and a host of others reasons why when we can stop laughing the intense grilling needs to start and not let up until they understand how profoundly they have doomed themselves, their country and everyone in it….Firstly no Mr. Moore Trump voters’ choice to vote for him is not a failure of the American education system either the woes we’ve heard repeated for the last 35 to 40 odd years decrying the new math, the new English or the old ones besides. Keeping in mind that, like Brexit in Europe, more of the voters who voted to leave based on similar principles here handing Trump his election victory were older British citizens mirroring older Americans here who were educated at the height of American success, educational prowess the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s long before the social promotion 80’s, feel good 90’s no child left behind, common core were so much as thoughts never mind policy, and more interested in sending a giant middle finger to the younger, ‘lazier’ generation…. However bad you think it is young people have proven their resilience to the tactics mentioned demonstrating they know more about civil disobedience, rights, history than adults staging walkouts and protests for everything from their right to wear casual clothing including yoga pants, short shorts, tank tops or ripped jeans, to supporting their transgender classmates right to use the bathroom they feel comfortable in, to vehemently objecting alterations to textbooks virtually removing history’s influential minorities, renaming the slave trade the transatlantic trade, attempting to call slaves workers, trying to call imperialism expansionism. Even the younger people who voted for Trump caught on camera saying outrageous things about blacks being better off during slavery, believing Donald Trump will bring jobs to their local comminutes, makes better sense on the economy is less due to democrats’ weak messaging and imbedded negative thoughts on Hillary Clinton concerning the latter topic. Rather is directly traced to their parents attitudes, perceptions, political leanings, their tendency to watch exclusively Fox News, their teachers in ‘Trumpland’ when asked for personal opinions on historical, current events, persons residing in their community they trust and listen telling them adjacent things; living in sometimes tiny towns, lacking the years and life experience to know differently than what their community tells them is true…. Instead Trump voters from an education standpoint are succinctly explained as an example of a failure to use the educations they were given, the logic and critical thinking skills afforded them by a basic k-12 education independent the decade, how ‘bad’ rural, small town the school was. Unabashed truth is they, Trump supporters, Trump voters like the ‘information’ Fox news gives them, agrees with, likes what Fox news tells them, don’t want to be educated beyond Fox news…. They are so easily bamboozled by alternative facts, well packaged lies, thanks to excellent framing, because they want to be…. here is why Trump supporters deserve to be laughed at, rigorously questioned, deserve no sympathy and will largely receive no sympathy, on the contrary will be scornfully judged…..But failure of logic, failure to properly digest, assimilate fact is the hallmark identifying any Trump supporter… Repackaging new old complaints, hopeless pipe dreams office runners are expected to fulfill this election cycle, top of the list, obsessed with reviving the prosperity of the past they enthusiastically eat up talk about bringing back coal jobs; never answered why do we have so many communities in America’s heartland, rust belt dependent on one singular industry be it the coal mine, the manufacturing plant or the textile mill, forget who calls it a textile mill anymore or why you’re still morning it 14 years later sans seeking professional help on both a personal and town, city organization level? Never demanded an answer to, where are/were the local chambers of commerce city, state level entities responsible for bringing business and with it jobs to areas back when automation was drying up coal jobs 50-60 years ago to present; you know what they say about stock portfolios, even standard 401k retirement plans, diversify, diversify, diversify, why didn’t these towns seem to so much as attempt that in the decades leading up to coal’s collapse, manufacturing’s steady disappearance? Further why is it the fault of presidents that they didn’t; why is it also the current president running for office’s job to fix when automation, cheaper labor overseas A- being a secondary factor not a primary one, and B- unrelated really to NAFTA, CAFTA, TPP, took it to begin with? Ironically replaced by other jobs open and available, what did they replace that textile mill with when they demolished the very building; oh they didn’t replace it with anything, there’s your true problem. Therefore beat down the doors of your local chamber of commerce, blame poor state and city planning, the national chamber of commerce, housing and urban development, but not the president voting in an inarguable orange buffoon over the singular sane, competent candidate… . Followed by the next video, why are you at 38 years old, went directly from high school to the manufacturing plant, profile on what’s stifling the American dream, in a dead industry; because, the biggest thing holding you back from the American dream isn’t your age, your millennial status, what decade you grew up in, the decade in which you now reside, it’s you are in a dead industry willingly, pridefully went into a dead industry. And if students of drastically less well-off parents can take out thousands in student loan debt to get educated, to go down a different path so could you have, probably with better results born a full 2 years before the earliest millennials. Worse, the research compiled analysts are drawing from goes back to 1940, we’re assuming things wouldn’t change economically in 80 years; news segment referencing the 1970’s as if it’s ludicrous economic and technological changes, advancements impacted jobs over those 40 years? Why are you Reality in America series participant Mr. firefighter, paramedic paying down student loan debts, you work 3 jobs, still unable to get ahead, where does your wife work, why doesn’t she work; why are you buying a house, on the hook for the upkeep of that flood in your back yard, complaining when you live in a small town of 40,000 people about job prospects, no wonder local fire fighters make so little because the town has so little? Family 2 why are you paying $800 a month for a house in Maryland, of all places; Mr. taking a bike, a bus and a train to get to work, you saved, bought a house before buying a car? Compounding that head scratching choice you bought a house still commuting 4 hours each way to work; plus did you ever think about moving out of California the 6th highest cost of living state in the union? Man managing 2 fast-food places, taking 8 busses, can you manage one closer to where you live, move closer to your job? No word given on who the My Reality featured stories voted for, but the group most attracted to Trump, hardly comprehending he will do little to end the necessity of overnight childcare for single parent nightshift workers… Here’s a concept that works, all the pun in the world intended, if you can’t handle the cyclical nature of specific industries, Indiana automotive, get a different job from the outset but don’t hate the previous president for saving your job, pulling us bootstraps first from a crisis because the recovery wasn’t big enough. Neither is our economy’s transformation, ‘plight’ new, utterly unheard of other countries have gone from industrial, manufacturing based economies to service tech economies thrived and survived; where they succeeded and we’re failing is policy. Beginning with a living minimum wage, the fight for 15, manly loosening the paradigm of ‘hard work’ narrowly defined and increased wages based on intensity of manual labor alone; people who will stay doing something extremely strenuous, detrimental on the body because that’s the way it’s always been done, the way their daddy, granddaddy did it, it being a point of pride and tradition they do it this way. Well the good book says pride cometh before the fall…Tell us Michael Moore is there any other word for that than stupid; is there any other word those Trump supporters, those republicans, those good heartland, rust belt people would use for us if it had been a liberal, progressive, democrat, staunch Hillary supporter doling out the same explanations? Why then, in the era of political incorrectness on steroids they say they love, is it wrong to call stupid behavior, stupid choices stupid?…
What no one wants to talk about restoring the dignity of work, meaning why do we, in the age of increasing numbers and growing levels of sophisticated robots, still have people in coal mines at all; certainly pay out the black lung benefits to persons already sick, exposed before we knew the consequences, but don’t create more. Why in the age of also increasingly complex farming equipment and machinery, to do work on larger and larger farms, do we continue to have, exclusively people, crouching, crawling, reaching, climbing, contorting their bodies unnaturally to pick fruits and vegetables? Worth asking not because Americans have become sissies, soft, there’s been a consistent wussification over the last 10-20 years spearheaded by helicopter parents, meddling schools, parenting books written by people with fancy psychology degrees and no actual experience in raising children and a younger generation seemingly allergic to hard work, afraid to get their hands dirty, a parallel consistent effort to make work done with ones hands low class to be avoided, although that last point plays a small part. But because repetitive stress injuries, diseases, disorders are bad, whether you are an athlete, a farmer, a person working a jackhammer, laying bricks, drywall, plumbing, someone who develops carpel tunnel due to poor, excessive typing habits; tendentious, arthritis, need for joint replacement destroys livelihoods, health at a time when the social security/Medicare eligibility ages are incrementally climbing not solely as a cost saving measure, as politicians have raided the fund to pay for other things sans putting the money back, refuse to remove payroll tax caps on larger sums earned, but commiserate with how much longer Americans are living, the enhanced quality of those so called golden years, senior citizens today more active, more capable than decades prior. Or that those jobs, surrounded by coal, chemicals pay so much off the top because you can only work them a few short years before you are sick, forced to go on disability, face serious risk of death, severely diminished quality of life. What can we do to restore the dignity of work so that good, solid work, good paying, needed, necessary jobs don’t involve coming home smelling like a sewer, like feces from cleaning up after cows, chickens, pigs all day, don’t involve intense heat, cold, detrimental conditions? People aren’t forced to endure workplaces the living, breathing personification of OSHA violations, constitute illegal, should be illegal hazards that unnecessarily remain reality due to businesses cutting corners; my own city’s local recycling center glass everywhere, biohazards, atrocious smell, improper protective gear provided for the work to the point one worker visited her doctor with glass in her arm. Insulation manufacturing plant poor, no, improper venation meaning employees breathed in massive qualities of dust equally lacking proper respiratory masks then they began getting their raw, recycled paper product, eventually turned into insulation, from surrounding landfills resulting in exposure to filth, biohazard and dead animals; still workplace safeties are on the chopping block in the Trump administration meaning we will only see more of this, more egregious working conditions for people least able to find different, better jobs..Also where the sympathy, empathy train leaves the station regarding Trump supporters willfully voting against the very things that would help, protect them while bemoaning their lot in life expecting demanding compassion; sorry to quote the country song, “my give a damn’s busted…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKg8eePp6Rc
A president, it matters when there are serious questions about can he read at a functional adult level, notwithstanding the comprehension needed for a job as important and involved as the president, covering the wide range of complicated, complex issues that entails; whether he has a learning disability or just managed to coast through that much of life is extremely relevant, because if he does have a learning deficit, deficiency, it isn’t to say someone with those problems can’t be president, but calling attention to he’s unaware, it’s untreated, unmanaged, undealt with and he’s the president of the United States rendering countless decisions effecting millions of lives daily, not an office jockey, fast-food worker. Underscoring its importance superseding the notion news outlets brought it up exclusively to make Trump look bad, undermine his presidency. It matters when the story goes viral in foreign countries, i.e. France, further diminishing our credibility and standing around the world to have chosen this man, precisely due to that last statement, flowing into the awkward situation created when foreign diplomatic corps translators refuse to translate things Trump routinely says to avoid sounding dumb, for fear they will be blamed for a missed translation that wasn’t. It matters when astute watchers, analysts inside, outside the media, regardless affiliation, political slant can document drastic measures he takes to avoid reading even in court depositions, leaks from inside the Whitehouse saying he demanded briefings be no longer than one page and filled with pictures a-la charts and graphs. Congratulations Trump country you have just fulfilled longstanding stereotypes about people like yourselves, Nick Smith self-description as a hillbilly from the holler, and you may have just elected the first functioning illiterate president of the United States, shouldn’t we all be proud. It matters that on top of legitimate speculation about the president’s literacy he regularly demonstrates he either did very poorly in school or is a walking advertisement for cognition screenings for older Americans flubbing black history month remarks talking about numerous contributions of Fredrick Douglas seemingly uniformed he is dead, has been dead nearly 122 years, can be humiliated repeatedly on the subject of science by a guy who used to do educational programing for children emphasis science, his potential illiteracy problem impacting national operations when he said he wasn’t briefed about the order he signed putting chief advisor Steve Bannon on the national security council, likelihood they gave it to him to read and he just didn’t, documents are released from the Whitehouse suggesting a lack of editing staff found at the smallest newspaper, where people are trying to make his point about unreported on terror attacks, yet can’t spell key words like attacker correctly. Compounding literacy questions, his blatantly poor accumulation of common knowledge there are the recurring concerns swirling around Donald Trump’s mental health, ongoing calls from various psychiatric professionals to please, for the good of the country, submit him to an evaluation, breaking professional ethics rules to speak out about his possible instability, even a change.org petition pleading the same thing; dovetailing into red flags raised about his steady diet of cable news consumption, his habit of getting himself in trouble publicly referencing things from Breitbart, Fox News, Alex Jones’ Info Wars, known conspiracy theory websites, slanted news shows, retweeting them, apparently where he got the Obama wiretap story. Testimonials from campaign, transition staffers they had to baby him, place positive press materials on his desk, turn him onto friendly media outlets to try to contain his spontaneous twitter rants done somewhere between midnight and 6AM; does this sound like an adult, a picture of stability while Fox News is bandying about outrage journalists dare ask after his state of mind. All in total sparking analyst explained recourse on removing Trump, any president, should they be, become unfit including congress’ use of the 25th amendment, statutes very open ended on what defines unfit, to straight up impeachment, specifically impeachment for his redundant lying, previously discussed impeachment for his violation of the emoluments clause related to his business conflicts of interest, possible collusion with Russia during the campaign… ). Policy, governance wise it’s absolutely relevant the dollar was down days into the Trump presidency due to uncertainty he interjected into the market, predictably through tweets; source Reuters not simply the independent media. Relevant his travel ban hurt airlines and tourism, dollars towns depend on to function, dido his constant trips to Mar-a-Lago shutting down parts of the city because he is there. Extremely relevant mortgages are down in his America, where he exalted he would be great at everything, when you track it to an increased cost of FHA loans, not trigged by the market, the fed, an interest rate hike instead his executive order. We should know when he pulls a bait and switch announcing he would meet with prescription drug makers about lowering costs for consumers minding their health only to cancel after meeting with lobbyists. When he says one thing and does the direct opposite; for instance pledges to buy, use American steel distinctly on the Keystone and Dakota access pipelines, every infrastructure endeavor going forward, not only for the House of Representatives to vote those projects don’t have to, but come to find out under Trump’s plan they qualify as existing projects not subject to his order. Others will highlight clever wording in his memo stating American steel will be used, bought when it can be, an easy scapegoat excuse when foreign steel is used to serve special interests. Republican mantra on government guidelines to anything is always described less is more, promoting get government off businesses back so it can grow, thrive, keep people working, the economy strong, asking frankly asinine questions about built in redundancy laws hurting farmers, fisheries exc., so it becomes relevant when those championed deregulations to shrink the bloated government complex they always complain about stand to make it easier for the richest to evade paying what little taxes they do, prevent ordinary people from asking the questions they need to, to properly file/pay their taxes via cuts to the IRS, following cuts enacted in previous years. It’s hardly irrelevant to working class persons whose boss just happens to hold government contract(s) when the republican congress dismantles Obama created regulations protecting government contract workers from labor violations, especially from a billionaire who ran on helping the little guy. Similarly it’s one thing to call the FDA the food police, think there are too many rules, despite we can’t go a solid month nationally without a major recall announcement of something we put in our mouths; it’s quite another when the president wants to use it against free trade, seemingly uncaring, unconcerned about internal food safety in light of the just mentioned recall frequency even with the regulations we have currently. It’s hard enough to decipher information, find the truth without entities as influential as our own government appearing to hide it from us; climate change data and related agencies mission statements scrubbed or changed respectively, animal abuse records removed from the USDA website formerly public for decades, silencing EPA, no blog, post, before aligning their statement and presidents on taxpayer funded studies/data, that the state department and justice department judges had to stand up to the Trump administration saying no to his travel ban. Issues will register in your lives Trump voters, supporters, e.g. voting rights, voter I.D. laws when it’s your mother, grandmother, long past using a driving license who suddenly can’t vote for want of an I.D. tied directly to attorney general Jeff Sessions to cease and desist fighting Texas’ voting laws throwing away 6 years of litigation. LGBT rights will reverberate through your lives when your son/daughter, niece/nephew, mother/father, best friend comes out as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, we seen it before in politicians suddenly changing their tune when it’s their family; elevated even higher when your tomboy daughter walks into the women’s bathroom and is screamed at to get out, hauled out by police mistaken for male, your small boned, yet to hit puberty, has a genetic disorder son encounters identical problems using a men’s public restroom, either is physically or sexually assaulted in the process, particularly at school, the local rec center; why Gavin Grimm’s ‘bathrooms,’ civil rights case is so important. Final doom of Trump fans, supporters, voters in the eyes of everyone else—their stubborn refusal to grasp the gravity of situations put in front of them, to dismiss the importance of Russia’s proven involvement in election interference, the reality of illegal immigrants, economic factors, Obamacare, choosing instead unwavering loyalty to a man who knows next to nothing about what he’s doing and will hurt America not help it, them most of all… Read More
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Michael Moore On Trump Voters: We Shouldn’t Laugh At Them—Gut Reaction Why The Hell Not Or At Least Ask Them The Hard Questions
It’s time such firm believers in tough love, no free lunches and the like were on the receiving end of some of their own axioms …More recently to those in his hometown and likeminded pockets of persons nationwide he has gone from out there social justice, social welfare, manage care, government dependence typical liberal, coddled idiot to citizen political activist saying things the way they would all like to say them and making increasing sense to towns ‘hollowed out by foreign trade,’ ‘forgotten by democrats on their way to the Whitehouse.’ Suffering Middle America people who’ve seen their manufacturing jobs evaporate and no one appears to have a solution to how they are suddenly supposed to provide for families at middle age with no job, prospects of making maybe $8.00 an hour with sparse retraining only sometimes available. Especially with his latest endeavor Michael Moore in Trumpland added to his political commentary and rather extraordinary reads on parts of the country during the campaigns, the election and after; hardly the first time he’s made attempts at being purely political, hoping Fahrenheit 9/11 would perhaps exert some sway 2004 election outcomes away from president George W. Bush, it is arguably his most successful. To them it may seem as if Moore has come full circle, applying his always leftist views in a different way to appeal to Trump voters on the things we can all agree on: we want our kids to go to good schools, we want to all have good, solid, well-paying jobs to support our families, we want ourselves and those we love to have affordable access to healthcare. Beyond old ladies, elderly couples eating cat or dogfood to pay for their lifesaving, life sustaining medications we believe no one should be choosing between their rent, food, their children’s food and say their cancer treatment. We’re all tired of being one job loss, one illness, one oversized medical bill, missed child support payment away from disaster, away from losing our homes, our vehicles we use to get to work, our employment; retirement for those approaching it a pipe dream so far out of reach they don’t know what to do. Fed up of hearing about an economic recovery we’ve yet to see, living in a recession that started a decade before the financial crisis for us and that no one seems interested in helping us out of, giving us the means by which to help ourselves. But it’s those identical leftist, unconventional ideas Michael Moore insists on spouting now once the election has been decided, for better or worse, even he believes worse, reminding us why he hasn’t changed and why we shouldn’t be taking his advice any more than we did, should have when he debuted Bowling For Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11. Compassion for Trump supporters, a fair smattering of whom are racist, white supremacist, immigrant hating Xenophobes, islamaphobes, certainly not everyone but enough, others blatantly homophobic, sexist you name it. Prescribing we not laugh at a person, ecstatic about Trump asking inauguration day why media didn’t cover the Trump assassination attempt, scoffing sarcastically saying oh ok! when the media person tells him it didn’t happen; what happened was a man yelled gun at an event rally, the secret service covered Trump ushered him off stage, confirmed the safety of the venue, no gun ever found, then Trump came back on stage resuming the rally, comments about violence and assassination proliferated by him. Admonishing us not to laugh at people who refuse to believe Obamacare saved them money, the 51% having bought into the ‘bowling green massacre’ or the ‘Sweden terror attack’ that wasn’t, perhaps the 55% who believe in massive immigrant, illegal voter fraud to the point where the sane, logical CNN reporter is smacking her head with her hand unsure how to progress her interview when, on top of repeating something housing absolutely no basis in fact, the woman speaking on the panel being interviewed misidentified CNN as the network who alerted her to the story; story apparently originating from internet memes showing pictures of busses someone adding captions about bussing illegals to vote. When the 2 single cases of voter fraud were on behalf of Trump, not Clinton or 3rd party candidates, and consisted of a Iowa woman who tried to vote twice based on his rhetoric votes could be invalidated and an illegal immigrant having an equivalent 6th grade education who thought she could because she is A- a green card holder and after all can own property, get a job, pay taxes, serve in the military, yet not vote simply confused; still given one of the harshest sentences seen for infractions often not resulting in jail time, 8 years so Trump can ramble about election security, localities cracking down on election fraud. Or that president Trump’s supposed voter fraud expert holding evidence 3-5 million illegal voters voted, and for Hillary Clinton, is registered in 3 states, that not in itself illegal but definitely hypocritical as our commander and chief spent weeks calling out people doing the same implying they voted multiple times, in all areas they were registered making their votes improper, and owes tens of thousands in unpaid taxes, allegedly lied about qualification on government job applications, has faced numerous accusations of ethical impropriety in posting theories online. Continued public policy polling’s 51% of Americans who boast about as much respect for checks and balances in government as their elected leader Trump believing he should ignore the judiciary, 14 % who support invading Mexico presumably to ensure they pay for the wall, 46% who want a white history month, these and a host of others reasons why when we can stop laughing the intense grilling needs to start and not let up until they understand how profoundly they have doomed themselves, their country and everyone in it….Firstly no Mr. Moore Trump voters’ choice to vote for him is not a failure of the American education system either the woes we’ve heard repeated for the last 35 to 40 odd years decrying the new math, the new English or the old ones besides. Keeping in mind that, like Brexit in Europe, more of the voters who voted to leave based on similar principles here handing Trump his election victory were older British citizens mirroring older Americans here who were educated at the height of American success, educational prowess the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s long before the social promotion 80’s, feel good 90’s no child left behind, common core were so much as thoughts never mind policy, and more interested in sending a giant middle finger to the younger, ‘lazier’ generation…. However bad you think it is young people have proven their resilience to the tactics mentioned demonstrating they know more about civil disobedience, rights, history than adults staging walkouts and protests for everything from their right to wear casual clothing including yoga pants, short shorts, tank tops or ripped jeans, to supporting their transgender classmates right to use the bathroom they feel comfortable in, to vehemently objecting alterations to textbooks virtually removing history’s influential minorities, renaming the slave trade the transatlantic trade, attempting to call slaves workers, trying to call imperialism expansionism. Even the younger people who voted for Trump caught on camera saying outrageous things about blacks being better off during slavery, believing Donald Trump will bring jobs to their local comminutes, makes better sense on the economy is less due to democrats’ weak messaging and imbedded negative thoughts on Hillary Clinton concerning the latter topic. Rather is directly traced to their parents attitudes, perceptions, political leanings, their tendency to watch exclusively Fox News, their teachers in ‘Trumpland’ when asked for personal opinions on historical, current events, persons residing in their community they trust and listen telling them adjacent things; living in sometimes tiny towns, lacking the years and life experience to know differently than what their community tells them is true…. Instead Trump voters from an education standpoint are succinctly explained as an example of a failure to use the educations they were given, the logic and critical thinking skills afforded them by a basic k-12 education independent the decade, how ‘bad’ rural, small town the school was. Unabashed truth is they, Trump supporters, Trump voters like the ‘information’ Fox news gives them, agrees with, likes what Fox news tells them, don’t want to be educated beyond Fox news…. They are so easily bamboozled by alternative facts, well packaged lies, thanks to excellent framing, because they want to be…. here is why Trump supporters deserve to be laughed at, rigorously questioned, deserve no sympathy and will largely receive no sympathy, on the contrary will be scornfully judged…..But failure of logic, failure to properly digest, assimilate fact is the hallmark identifying any Trump supporter… Repackaging new old complaints, hopeless pipe dreams office runners are expected to fulfill this election cycle, top of the list, obsessed with reviving the prosperity of the past they enthusiastically eat up talk about bringing back coal jobs; never answered why do we have so many communities in America’s heartland, rust belt dependent on one singular industry be it the coal mine, the manufacturing plant or the textile mill, forget who calls it a textile mill anymore or why you’re still morning it 14 years later sans seeking professional help on both a personal and town, city organization level? Never demanded an answer to, where are/were the local chambers of commerce city, state level entities responsible for bringing business and with it jobs to areas back when automation was drying up coal jobs 50-60 years ago to present; you know what they say about stock portfolios, even standard 401k retirement plans, diversify, diversify, diversify, why didn’t these towns seem to so much as attempt that in the decades leading up to coal’s collapse, manufacturing’s steady disappearance? Further why is it the fault of presidents that they didn’t; why is it also the current president running for office’s job to fix when automation, cheaper labor overseas A- being a secondary factor not a primary one, and B- unrelated really to NAFTA, CAFTA, TPP, took it to begin with? Ironically replaced by other jobs open and available, what did they replace that textile mill with when they demolished the very building; oh they didn’t replace it with anything, there’s your true problem. Therefore beat down the doors of your local chamber of commerce, blame poor state and city planning, the national chamber of commerce, housing and urban development, but not the president voting in an inarguable orange buffoon over the singular sane, competent candidate… . Followed by the next video, why are you at 38 years old, went directly from high school to the manufacturing plant, profile on what’s stifling the American dream, in a dead industry; because, the biggest thing holding you back from the American dream isn’t your age, your millennial status, what decade you grew up in, the decade in which you now reside, it’s you are in a dead industry willingly, pridefully went into a dead industry. And if students of drastically less well-off parents can take out thousands in student loan debt to get educated, to go down a different path so could you have, probably with better results born a full 2 years before the earliest millennials. Worse, the research compiled analysts are drawing from goes back to 1940, we’re assuming things wouldn’t change economically in 80 years; news segment referencing the 1970’s as if it’s ludicrous economic and technological changes, advancements impacted jobs over those 40 years? Why are you Reality in America series participant Mr. firefighter, paramedic paying down student loan debts, you work 3 jobs, still unable to get ahead, where does your wife work, why doesn’t she work; why are you buying a house, on the hook for the upkeep of that flood in your back yard, complaining when you live in a small town of 40,000 people about job prospects, no wonder local fire fighters make so little because the town has so little? Family 2 why are you paying $800 a month for a house in Maryland, of all places; Mr. taking a bike, a bus and a train to get to work, you saved, bought a house before buying a car? Compounding that head scratching choice you bought a house still commuting 4 hours each way to work; plus did you ever think about moving out of California the 6th highest cost of living state in the union? Man managing 2 fast-food places, taking 8 busses, can you manage one closer to where you live, move closer to your job? No word given on who the My Reality featured stories voted for, but the group most attracted to Trump, hardly comprehending he will do little to end the necessity of overnight childcare for single parent nightshift workers… Here’s a concept that works, all the pun in the world intended, if you can’t handle the cyclical nature of specific industries, Indiana automotive, get a different job from the outset but don’t hate the previous president for saving your job, pulling us bootstraps first from a crisis because the recovery wasn’t big enough. Neither is our economy’s transformation, ‘plight’ new, utterly unheard of other countries have gone from industrial, manufacturing based economies to service tech economies thrived and survived; where they succeeded and we’re failing is policy. Beginning with a living minimum wage, the fight for 15, manly loosening the paradigm of ‘hard work’ narrowly defined and increased wages based on intensity of manual labor alone; people who will stay doing something extremely strenuous, detrimental on the body because that’s the way it’s always been done, the way their daddy, granddaddy did it, it being a point of pride and tradition they do it this way. Well the good book says pride cometh before the fall…Tell us Michael Moore is there any other word for that than stupid; is there any other word those Trump supporters, those republicans, those good heartland, rust belt people would use for us if it had been a liberal, progressive, democrat, staunch Hillary supporter doling out the same explanations? Why then, in the era of political incorrectness on steroids they say they love, is it wrong to call stupid behavior, stupid choices stupid?…
What no one wants to talk about restoring the dignity of work, meaning why do we, in the age of increasing numbers and growing levels of sophisticated robots, still have people in coal mines at all; certainly pay out the black lung benefits to persons already sick, exposed before we knew the consequences, but don’t create more. Why in the age of also increasingly complex farming equipment and machinery, to do work on larger and larger farms, do we continue to have, exclusively people, crouching, crawling, reaching, climbing, contorting their bodies unnaturally to pick fruits and vegetables? Worth asking not because Americans have become sissies, soft, there’s been a consistent wussification over the last 10-20 years spearheaded by helicopter parents, meddling schools, parenting books written by people with fancy psychology degrees and no actual experience in raising children and a younger generation seemingly allergic to hard work, afraid to get their hands dirty, a parallel consistent effort to make work done with ones hands low class to be avoided, although that last point plays a small part. But because repetitive stress injuries, diseases, disorders are bad, whether you are an athlete, a farmer, a person working a jackhammer, laying bricks, drywall, plumbing, someone who develops carpel tunnel due to poor, excessive typing habits; tendentious, arthritis, need for joint replacement destroys livelihoods, health at a time when the social security/Medicare eligibility ages are incrementally climbing not solely as a cost saving measure, as politicians have raided the fund to pay for other things sans putting the money back, refuse to remove payroll tax caps on larger sums earned, but commiserate with how much longer Americans are living, the enhanced quality of those so called golden years, senior citizens today more active, more capable than decades prior. Or that those jobs, surrounded by coal, chemicals pay so much off the top because you can only work them a few short years before you are sick, forced to go on disability, face serious risk of death, severely diminished quality of life. What can we do to restore the dignity of work so that good, solid work, good paying, needed, necessary jobs don’t involve coming home smelling like a sewer, like feces from cleaning up after cows, chickens, pigs all day, don’t involve intense heat, cold, detrimental conditions? People aren’t forced to endure workplaces the living, breathing personification of OSHA violations, constitute illegal, should be illegal hazards that unnecessarily remain reality due to businesses cutting corners; my own city’s local recycling center glass everywhere, biohazards, atrocious smell, improper protective gear provided for the work to the point one worker visited her doctor with glass in her arm. Insulation manufacturing plant poor, no, improper venation meaning employees breathed in massive qualities of dust equally lacking proper respiratory masks then they began getting their raw, recycled paper product, eventually turned into insulation, from surrounding landfills resulting in exposure to filth, biohazard and dead animals; still workplace safeties are on the chopping block in the Trump administration meaning we will only see more of this, more egregious working conditions for people least able to find different, better jobs..Also where the sympathy, empathy train leaves the station regarding Trump supporters willfully voting against the very things that would help, protect them while bemoaning their lot in life expecting demanding compassion; sorry to quote the country song, “my give a damn’s busted…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKg8eePp6Rc
A president, it matters when there are serious questions about can he read at a functional adult level, notwithstanding the comprehension needed for a job as important and involved as the president, covering the wide range of complicated, complex issues that entails; whether he has a learning disability or just managed to coast through that much of life is extremely relevant, because if he does have a learning deficit, deficiency, it isn’t to say someone with those problems can’t be president, but calling attention to he’s unaware, it’s untreated, unmanaged, undealt with and he’s the president of the United States rendering countless decisions effecting millions of lives daily, not an office jockey, fast-food worker. Underscoring its importance superseding the notion news outlets brought it up exclusively to make Trump look bad, undermine his presidency. It matters when the story goes viral in foreign countries, i.e. France, further diminishing our credibility and standing around the world to have chosen this man, precisely due to that last statement, flowing into the awkward situation created when foreign diplomatic corps translators refuse to translate things Trump routinely says to avoid sounding dumb, for fear they will be blamed for a missed translation that wasn’t. It matters when astute watchers, analysts inside, outside the media, regardless affiliation, political slant can document drastic measures he takes to avoid reading even in court depositions, leaks from inside the Whitehouse saying he demanded briefings be no longer than one page and filled with pictures a-la charts and graphs. Congratulations Trump country you have just fulfilled longstanding stereotypes about people like yourselves, Nick Smith self-description as a hillbilly from the holler, and you may have just elected the first functioning illiterate president of the United States, shouldn’t we all be proud. It matters that on top of legitimate speculation about the president’s literacy he regularly demonstrates he either did very poorly in school or is a walking advertisement for cognition screenings for older Americans flubbing black history month remarks talking about numerous contributions of Fredrick Douglas seemingly uniformed he is dead, has been dead nearly 122 years, can be humiliated repeatedly on the subject of science by a guy who used to do educational programing for children emphasis science, his potential illiteracy problem impacting national operations when he said he wasn’t briefed about the order he signed putting chief advisor Steve Bannon on the national security council, likelihood they gave it to him to read and he just didn’t, documents are released from the Whitehouse suggesting a lack of editing staff found at the smallest newspaper, where people are trying to make his point about unreported on terror attacks, yet can’t spell key words like attacker correctly. Compounding literacy questions, his blatantly poor accumulation of common knowledge there are the recurring concerns swirling around Donald Trump’s mental health, ongoing calls from various psychiatric professionals to please, for the good of the country, submit him to an evaluation, breaking professional ethics rules to speak out about his possible instability, even a change.org petition pleading the same thing; dovetailing into red flags raised about his steady diet of cable news consumption, his habit of getting himself in trouble publicly referencing things from Breitbart, Fox News, Alex Jones’ Info Wars, known conspiracy theory websites, slanted news shows, retweeting them, apparently where he got the Obama wiretap story. Testimonials from campaign, transition staffers they had to baby him, place positive press materials on his desk, turn him onto friendly media outlets to try to contain his spontaneous twitter rants done somewhere between midnight and 6AM; does this sound like an adult, a picture of stability while Fox News is bandying about outrage journalists dare ask after his state of mind. All in total sparking analyst explained recourse on removing Trump, any president, should they be, become unfit including congress’ use of the 25th amendment, statutes very open ended on what defines unfit, to straight up impeachment, specifically impeachment for his redundant lying, previously discussed impeachment for his violation of the emoluments clause related to his business conflicts of interest, possible collusion with Russia during the campaign… ). Policy, governance wise it’s absolutely relevant the dollar was down days into the Trump presidency due to uncertainty he interjected into the market, predictably through tweets; source Reuters not simply the independent media. Relevant his travel ban hurt airlines and tourism, dollars towns depend on to function, dido his constant trips to Mar-a-Lago shutting down parts of the city because he is there. Extremely relevant mortgages are down in his America, where he exalted he would be great at everything, when you track it to an increased cost of FHA loans, not trigged by the market, the fed, an interest rate hike instead his executive order. We should know when he pulls a bait and switch announcing he would meet with prescription drug makers about lowering costs for consumers minding their health only to cancel after meeting with lobbyists. When he says one thing and does the direct opposite; for instance pledges to buy, use American steel distinctly on the Keystone and Dakota access pipelines, every infrastructure endeavor going forward, not only for the House of Representatives to vote those projects don’t have to, but come to find out under Trump’s plan they qualify as existing projects not subject to his order. Others will highlight clever wording in his memo stating American steel will be used, bought when it can be, an easy scapegoat excuse when foreign steel is used to serve special interests. Republican mantra on government guidelines to anything is always described less is more, promoting get government off businesses back so it can grow, thrive, keep people working, the economy strong, asking frankly asinine questions about built in redundancy laws hurting farmers, fisheries exc., so it becomes relevant when those championed deregulations to shrink the bloated government complex they always complain about stand to make it easier for the richest to evade paying what little taxes they do, prevent ordinary people from asking the questions they need to, to properly file/pay their taxes via cuts to the IRS, following cuts enacted in previous years. It’s hardly irrelevant to working class persons whose boss just happens to hold government contract(s) when the republican congress dismantles Obama created regulations protecting government contract workers from labor violations, especially from a billionaire who ran on helping the little guy. Similarly it’s one thing to call the FDA the food police, think there are too many rules, despite we can’t go a solid month nationally without a major recall announcement of something we put in our mouths; it’s quite another when the president wants to use it against free trade, seemingly uncaring, unconcerned about internal food safety in light of the just mentioned recall frequency even with the regulations we have currently. It’s hard enough to decipher information, find the truth without entities as influential as our own government appearing to hide it from us; climate change data and related agencies mission statements scrubbed or changed respectively, animal abuse records removed from the USDA website formerly public for decades, silencing EPA, no blog, post, before aligning their statement and presidents on taxpayer funded studies/data, that the state department and justice department judges had to stand up to the Trump administration saying no to his travel ban. Issues will register in your lives Trump voters, supporters, e.g. voting rights, voter I.D. laws when it’s your mother, grandmother, long past using a driving license who suddenly can’t vote for want of an I.D. tied directly to attorney general Jeff Sessions to cease and desist fighting Texas’ voting laws throwing away 6 years of litigation. LGBT rights will reverberate through your lives when your son/daughter, niece/nephew, mother/father, best friend comes out as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, we seen it before in politicians suddenly changing their tune when it’s their family; elevated even higher when your tomboy daughter walks into the women’s bathroom and is screamed at to get out, hauled out by police mistaken for male, your small boned, yet to hit puberty, has a genetic disorder son encounters identical problems using a men’s public restroom, either is physically or sexually assaulted in the process, particularly at school, the local rec center; why Gavin Grimm’s ‘bathrooms,’ civil rights case is so important. Final doom of Trump fans, supporters, voters in the eyes of everyone else—their stubborn refusal to grasp the gravity of situations put in front of them, to dismiss the importance of Russia’s proven involvement in election interference, the reality of illegal immigrants, economic factors, Obamacare, choosing instead unwavering loyalty to a man who knows next to nothing about what he’s doing and will hurt America not help it, them most of all… Read More
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