Interesting post Vasco. I tend to agree that civilisation is a fragile structure overlaid on a nature red in tooth and claw, constantly trying to reassert itself. That is precisely why the barmy trajectory of recent decades, of which the Donald is the latest chapter, is so dangerous.
As you note McCarthy has recent history and his spirit lives on in the inquisitorial nuttery of recent years which has now produced its nemesis. At least the original strain was a bad thing combatting a bad thing; now we just have bad things.
Quite surprised that even the yanks are yearning to start knocking ten bells out of wife and kids. Is that really widespread? I assume you mean more than smacking kids here, by your description ?
The American body politic - and where you lead, we follow - has in recent times been based on an accumulation of magical thinking, incoherent invented concepts and mendacity. It has allowed bullying to creep in to the way things are done, along with ridicule,Exclusion, demonisation and the age old poison of viewing people as categories rather than individuals.
It really is pitiful to watch the rage at trump from those who mainstreamed all this and so enabled him. They are as much the problem, and the US needs all parties to take a deep feckin breath and count to ten.
I live in a blue collar port town so the guys I meet are totally of the opinion that they are tough and that strength is purely a physical concept. They also don't like to stop and think about things for too long. Women's roles are still very traditional in a 1950s way here, i.e. meet a guy at high school who will get a job either as a longshoreman or a refinery worker, get married at 22 and pop out a bunch of kids then get a boob job in your 30s. This view of women is similar to what I see in my travels outside of major Cities. As I say violence/power is seen as the pathway to success in most of the US. That is why your idea that Donny and his cronies are super high-risk of assassination attempts is very real.
With regards your posts with Gun Ainm, I read it as being that if Donald overturns Roe Vs Wade many of those that complain about the barbarity or corruption of his other policies will pipe down (for a few years). To be seen as doing 'God's work' in banning abortion is a massive single issue for so many believers here. But as I say there would then be some other single issue many would then move onto after a short while but it would give Donald enough time to push through land grab policies, pipeline deals, tax evasion and other corrupt things. It would also probably be enough to allow him to backtrack on completing the wall or implementing a full immigration ban for the duration of his Presidency.
I didn't see the same media silence on Obama's Presidency that you seem to have seen. Sure, elements of the media and populace gave him carte blanche, but most of his policy and public statements, such as Obamacare, Iran Nuclear deal, maintaining Guantanamo, calling for gun control discussion, saying that racism still exists and many more things, attracted a lot of media criticism, and not just from Fox News, Wall Street Journal or Breitbart. How else could it be that 25% of the population still believes he was an ISIS plant?
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A bizarre post.
How mental is our situation ?
Where aboot ?
You move in strange circles. It's Smith and Wesson BTW.
Really ? What restaurants do you frequent ? It's "Football".
I would say the situation is mental because the nation was founded on the idea of checks and balances and we now have a President that does not want to honour that. Other Presidents have done this at times but never as blatantly as this. Its also mental because there seems to be very little desire for people to debate these issues and instead most people are entrenching themselves and not wanting to discuss solutions / new ideas.
You misunderstood what I meant about the wife beating proposal, probably due to the way I wrote it. I wrote "I see that being proposed here" meaning "I can see that getting proposed here at some stage". I haven't seen it formally proposed yet but as I say I seen the idea of violence frequently proposed as a solution to issues on public community forums. I also see people saying and acting out what I would call old fashioned things with regards women's roles in society. Thanks for correcting my gun manufacturer name. Point stands though, violence is definitely seen by many as a legitimate response to things they don't like/agree with.
Probably many similar places to you. Its American Football on a Scottish Football forum. Very few of the places I go show Soccer.
