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The Longest Nooooo!
h/t InstapunditMaryland therapist Steven Stosny described a condition he terms "headline stress disorder", a more virulent version of the "election stress disorder" that he detected prior to November 8, 2016. Ever since he won Donald Trump's been on the brain of his patients and it's not going away soon.. ...If former vice-president candidate Tim Kaine can be believed, the condition is real. "Headline stress disorder" is particularly acute among liberals, some of whom are in a state of paroxysmal rage over Trump: over what he is, stands for, how he looks, etc. A kind of self-sustaining chain reaction may now be taking place. It is energy and anger looking for a place to go. How about we put them all on Ritalin - the way they've been doing to our (anybody who doesn't fit their criteria of a good girl) kids? ...With DeVos' accession the juggernaut has moved one step closer to investing the key liberal redoubt of education. The core fortress, the upstream of culture and politics -- may soon be under siege. It demonstrated, if further proof were needed, the growing inability of the old time Democratic bosses to slow, let alone stop the Deplorable advance. In a sidebar to the DeVos' story the New York Times sourly noted that Barack Obama was off kite surfing with Richard Branson, fiddling as it were while Rome burned. ...The more fundamental problem, as John Harris notes in the Guardian, is whether the left has a future in its current form. "All over the west, the left is in crisis," he writes. "It cannot find answers to three urgent problems: the disruptive force of globalization, the rise of populist nationalism, and the decline of traditional work." ...In his book the Road to Wigan Pier Orwell described the middle-class takeover of what was then a working-class movement: Socialism, in its developed form is a theory confined entirely to the middle classes. The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years’ time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting. And that fact is the key as for how Trump should deal with the bureaucratic sabotage. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-08 |
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