An electorate that is willfully uninformed and steeped in white supremacy and grievance is not reading your work or that of any other Substack contributor. We who do read you, David, and many other honorable and thoughtful writers are grateful for your foresight.
Milford Sprecher and Nancy B, thanks for your posts. I confess, though, on the question of seeing “…what Thune and the Repubs do,” I see little reason to doubt they will all capitulate to Trump and fall in line. There are some few who haven’t, but the majority have and that doesn’t inspire confidence. I’m struggling with hopelessness, but it helps to see that you are not.
I've always respected career politicians like John McCain, Mitt Romney, and George Bush (senior). While I haven't always agreed with their policies, I've always respected these men and their dedication as public servants. There's a lot fewer of these people in government today which is sad for the country. I also fear that right now there's no guardrails for a second Trump presidency. Too many people who thought they could rein him in have learned they can't. Unfortunately too many of Trump's cabinet picks have one main criteria, their loyalty to Donald Trump. Otherwise they have no credible experience for these jobs in charge of thousands of government employees and responsible for billions of dollars.
Today I contacted both my state senators. I live in Wisconsin and one is a Republican and one is a Democrat. I urged both to make sure all cabinet posts are fully reviewed. America deserves the best people available for these critical roles. I reminded both senators that they have constitutional backing for their oversight roles and that giving that up is an abdication of their duties. The president is one of the three branches of government and our legislature is an equal branch. They need to do their jobs. While I may not agree with what the senate decides, they should be thorough and not give Trump a free hand or it will be the first in a series of steps toward rule by a powerful president who desires to become a dictator. The Republican party has the power to rein Trump in but they need to act in unison, something we haven't seen before.
David , I appreciate your thoughtful reflection. Yet, from what we’re seeing the anti-democratic media complex is vast and very well funded nationally and internationally.
In some respects, your message was rejected by the very people who needed to hear it most before you put words to paper because you represent expertise. Tom Nichols has written about the rejection of intellectual wisdom in his book, The Death of Expertise. Autocrats depend on anti-intellectual cultures, which is where the US has been heading well before Reagan. Edward R. Morrow warned us. The rise of the attitude, “you’re not the boss of me” speaks to the fact that oppositional defiance disorder is a feature not a bug.
While the target audience needing to hear your message rejects it as a knee-jerk reaction, please know your engaged audience needs your insight as grounding in reason, fact, and conviction to orient our compasses to true north. We’re in this together.
Simply, The Feelings Of Entrapment Are OverWhelming, This CAN NOT Be Our🇺🇸America⚠️SCARY Preparing For The INJUSTICES⚠️🍊👑🤡🫅🏼👹🚔🚨Ahead⚠️SO MUCH⚠️TRUMP⚠️Oblivion-Naivety, Misinformed-Voters That Saw NO Danger-Warnings❗️❓️Affiliated With The Federal-Criminal, Thugging-Huckster, UNFATHOMABLE●●●CRAZIER●●●Had NOT Learned A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G From⚠️HIS⚠️Last Presidency❗️❓️❗️❓️❗️❓️god Help🇺🇸U.S.❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️"Forgive Them, For They Know NOT What They Do"●●●Sadly, WE🇺🇸Will A-L-L🇺🇸Suffer Via The Ill-Informed &/Or Via The💰G-R-E-E-D-Y⚠️FASCIST🤑AUTOCRATICS⚠️From💔Within⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
As much as you likely felt that your book would be a clear and generally understood warning, serving its purpose, the corrupting Social Media space and the traditional media failures to warn and condemn have been too toxic for any writer to break through and effectively educate the voting public. But I will gladly buy your book to better understand what has been lost and why.
It will be interesting to see what Thune and the Repubs do. I wrote him an e-Mail about the awful nominations and reminded him that he has an obligation to the country not the the President-elect and his party.
Now is the time to begin organizing so that we can potentially pull off a general strike when he inevitably does something that engenders a constitutional crisis.
I guess we’ll see how much the GOP Senators bend the knee.
It’s hard not to succumb to despair and depression-even after taking 9 days off and deleting x.
Our collective voices are hopefully not screaming into the void and we can mount the resistance this moment requires. The buyer’s remorse must be apparent to those who voted for this insanity that aren’t in the cult.
Biden needs to do what is possible to king proof the office asap. Not feeling confident about that.
I do hope we get to see Jack Smith’s report and the outcome of the Gaetz ethics investigation.
It’s going to get exponentially more dysfunctional by the day. I’m not sure I will personally survive this assault. At the same time, I can’t let the bad guys win.
Ugh... I forget who coined the phrase "elections matter", but they're right, elections matter. Results matter. You get the government you deserve. I took a week off unplugging from the news for a week to regain sanity, and wow. Now Jagarbombs are the balm of choice.
I think the best strategy is foment and encourage internal Republican strife, and Jagarbombs. Dark humour but what else is there when you are part of Siamese twin and the other half shoots himself in the head.
I emphasize with all those who will have their lives ruined/altered and God forbid lost all because this NY entiltled asshole has seven decades of unresolved daddy issues.
An electorate that is willfully uninformed and steeped in white supremacy and grievance is not reading your work or that of any other Substack contributor. We who do read you, David, and many other honorable and thoughtful writers are grateful for your foresight.
An uninformed by choice electorate
Milford Sprecher and Nancy B, thanks for your posts. I confess, though, on the question of seeing “…what Thune and the Repubs do,” I see little reason to doubt they will all capitulate to Trump and fall in line. There are some few who haven’t, but the majority have and that doesn’t inspire confidence. I’m struggling with hopelessness, but it helps to see that you are not.
I've always respected career politicians like John McCain, Mitt Romney, and George Bush (senior). While I haven't always agreed with their policies, I've always respected these men and their dedication as public servants. There's a lot fewer of these people in government today which is sad for the country. I also fear that right now there's no guardrails for a second Trump presidency. Too many people who thought they could rein him in have learned they can't. Unfortunately too many of Trump's cabinet picks have one main criteria, their loyalty to Donald Trump. Otherwise they have no credible experience for these jobs in charge of thousands of government employees and responsible for billions of dollars.
Today I contacted both my state senators. I live in Wisconsin and one is a Republican and one is a Democrat. I urged both to make sure all cabinet posts are fully reviewed. America deserves the best people available for these critical roles. I reminded both senators that they have constitutional backing for their oversight roles and that giving that up is an abdication of their duties. The president is one of the three branches of government and our legislature is an equal branch. They need to do their jobs. While I may not agree with what the senate decides, they should be thorough and not give Trump a free hand or it will be the first in a series of steps toward rule by a powerful president who desires to become a dictator. The Republican party has the power to rein Trump in but they need to act in unison, something we haven't seen before.
yes you did but some of us, most american votes did not...
The media got tRump elected. All the great reports from Biden policies don't sell news.
David , I appreciate your thoughtful reflection. Yet, from what we’re seeing the anti-democratic media complex is vast and very well funded nationally and internationally.
In some respects, your message was rejected by the very people who needed to hear it most before you put words to paper because you represent expertise. Tom Nichols has written about the rejection of intellectual wisdom in his book, The Death of Expertise. Autocrats depend on anti-intellectual cultures, which is where the US has been heading well before Reagan. Edward R. Morrow warned us. The rise of the attitude, “you’re not the boss of me” speaks to the fact that oppositional defiance disorder is a feature not a bug.
While the target audience needing to hear your message rejects it as a knee-jerk reaction, please know your engaged audience needs your insight as grounding in reason, fact, and conviction to orient our compasses to true north. We’re in this together.
Simply, The Feelings Of Entrapment Are OverWhelming, This CAN NOT Be Our🇺🇸America⚠️SCARY Preparing For The INJUSTICES⚠️🍊👑🤡🫅🏼👹🚔🚨Ahead⚠️SO MUCH⚠️TRUMP⚠️Oblivion-Naivety, Misinformed-Voters That Saw NO Danger-Warnings❗️❓️Affiliated With The Federal-Criminal, Thugging-Huckster, UNFATHOMABLE●●●CRAZIER●●●Had NOT Learned A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G From⚠️HIS⚠️Last Presidency❗️❓️❗️❓️❗️❓️god Help🇺🇸U.S.❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️"Forgive Them, For They Know NOT What They Do"●●●Sadly, WE🇺🇸Will A-L-L🇺🇸Suffer Via The Ill-Informed &/Or Via The💰G-R-E-E-D-Y⚠️FASCIST🤑AUTOCRATICS⚠️From💔Within⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
It was only 9 days ago? Damn! I thought it was at least twice that. I do think some of those nominations are to see what Trump can get away with.
P.S. I liked your book.
Wtf do we do now????
Jagarbombs
As much as you likely felt that your book would be a clear and generally understood warning, serving its purpose, the corrupting Social Media space and the traditional media failures to warn and condemn have been too toxic for any writer to break through and effectively educate the voting public. But I will gladly buy your book to better understand what has been lost and why.
It will be interesting to see what Thune and the Repubs do. I wrote him an e-Mail about the awful nominations and reminded him that he has an obligation to the country not the the President-elect and his party.
Will there be any satisfaction when the American people who voted for him finally start to realize? Wait will they start to realize?
Now is the time to begin organizing so that we can potentially pull off a general strike when he inevitably does something that engenders a constitutional crisis.
I guess we’ll see how much the GOP Senators bend the knee.
It’s hard not to succumb to despair and depression-even after taking 9 days off and deleting x.
Our collective voices are hopefully not screaming into the void and we can mount the resistance this moment requires. The buyer’s remorse must be apparent to those who voted for this insanity that aren’t in the cult.
Biden needs to do what is possible to king proof the office asap. Not feeling confident about that.
I do hope we get to see Jack Smith’s report and the outcome of the Gaetz ethics investigation.
It’s going to get exponentially more dysfunctional by the day. I’m not sure I will personally survive this assault. At the same time, I can’t let the bad guys win.
Ugh... I forget who coined the phrase "elections matter", but they're right, elections matter. Results matter. You get the government you deserve. I took a week off unplugging from the news for a week to regain sanity, and wow. Now Jagarbombs are the balm of choice.
I think the best strategy is foment and encourage internal Republican strife, and Jagarbombs. Dark humour but what else is there when you are part of Siamese twin and the other half shoots himself in the head.
I emphasize with all those who will have their lives ruined/altered and God forbid lost all because this NY entiltled asshole has seven decades of unresolved daddy issues.
thank you for listening to my rant
I think he was born with his personality disorders and probably his daddy had the same. Assholes!!