About three days after the election, I felt subdued because my country
just seemed a little less warm-hearted toward people in general than I
hoped it would be. In other words, Frost You! seemed to be the voters' mood. I didn't take that well at first. I've adjusted.
Some smart writer in the Atlantic Monthly magazine says that there are some big differences between church-going and "secular" voters in all parts of the political spectrum. My normal tendency is to be wary of church-based voters. I like people who can think for themselves, and some of my church experience showed the tendency for my fellow believers to go along with the herd. This writer may have said 25% of people under, oh, 35, who say they believe in God don't go to church. These out-of-church voters tended to support Trump and Sanders more than churchgoers with the same political outlooks. They both feel more like the American Dream has been lost than people who voted for Clinton or Cruz or John Casich or Lindsay Graham. Graham and Casich especially seemed to lose, to me in looking back, partly because they didn't tell enough people to just frost off. Then Rubio and Clinton lost because they weren't mad enough--too grownup.
This subject seems a little foggy, but "To Hell With You," to tone it down, popped into my head as a way to describe some of this new national mood. A little before we inaugurated President Trump, I was driving down a street here in Tucson and saw "a new thing in the world." It was a large pickup truck with a man of about 30 driving. He had a big flag or banner posted on a flagpole standing straight up in the bed of his truck. The flag was white and had the words TRUMP: No More Bullshit! Here "bullshit" seems to mean "anything I think is stupid."
I believe we come to Earth to learn to get along and put up with other people, in spite of how screwy or even wrong we find them to be. It seems clear that Donald Trump disagrees with me on that. Yet, if he's not going to cooperate with a wide range of people, it will limt what he can do as President.
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