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So, an aside about this, I

Orion — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:56:17 +0000

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So, an aside about this, I have known people in very liberal environments like San Francisco, the Puget Sound and Oakland who supported Trump. One was a half Filipino guy who lost a sibling to illness, the other was a white guy whose adoptive father committed suicide after battling cancer, and the other was a black guy who would call his hometown "the Killzone." The unifying feature of all of them, despite their diversity, was isolation. Trumpism was/is a very different beast from the sort of conservatism that powered Reagan and the Bush family. That was powered by business interests and evangelicals who were very much well socialized and people who were badly socialized that ended up part of that sort of conservatism were hoping to become connected.

I don't know if Trump himself will remain a focal point of right wing politics in the U.S. but something a lot like what he spearheaded will remain if people remain atomized from those around them. Social isolation just makes you want to scream at everyone around you and that's what Trump did.

How the collapse of community

Orion — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 04:05:06 +0000

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How the collapse of community gave us Trump: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/how-the-collapse-of-communiti...

There are great conservative

Orion — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 04:02:44 +0000

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There are great conservative thinkers from other countries but not here. American conservatism is largely a scam.

Perhaps the isolation is to

rmrd0000 — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 02:59:57 +0000

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Perhaps the isolation is to be expected, because they see the world passing them by. Who are the great intellectuals on the Conservative side? Where are the great Conservative ideas? We have waited for an Obamacare replacement for a decade. It seems that the Conservative base only accepts a narrowing point of view. I point out that the base is moving away from Fox News to Newsmax and other channels. There is movement to Parler because Facebook and other media sites are rejecting alternative facts. The Woke are not the biggest danger that the country faces. There are citizens unwilling to accept facts or study issues. They now have a judicial system that says corporations can have that old time religion, and that religious people can infect fellow citizens because wearing masks and imposing crowd distancing hinders religious practice. Time wasted on the "Woke" takes attention away from the larger harm being done by Conservative media, legislators, judges, and base.

Social alienation in America

Orion — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 01:32:18 +0000

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Social alienation in America is another level. This is maybe the only country on earth where people can ever be alone for real, and someone like Trump starts to make sense when no one is talking to you.