"A purity spiral occurs when a community becomes fixated on implementing a single value that has no upper limit, and no single agreed interpretation. The result is a moral feeding frenzy." Gavin Haynes -How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral:A process of moral outbidding is corroding small communities from within in UNHERDI am supposed to hate President Trump, America, past and present, my skin color and myself.
Not gonna.
The people who insist that I do range from celebrated faux-intellectual David Brooks to members of my vast and blue-collar family.
I love blue collars, but only wore one at work when I had to wear one. For 46 of my 68 years, I was a high school English teacher, I consider teaching a profession. I joined no union to ensure my continued pay days. I am an independent contractor, like an accountant, or lawyer. You know, other professionals?
I am an Irish Catholic. I adhere to the faith that fought Communism and teaches eternal truths. Too many Irish Catholics adhere to the moveable feast of Cardinal Teddy McCarrick's American neo-Unitarian catholic thought - abortion is a personal choice and marriage is . . . well, who's to say?
My father and his brothers fought fascism and communism. My uncle Bart told me that the difference between Nazis and Commies is the difference between horseshit and manure,
My Uncle Bud sealed an expensive crematorium shut that was purchased by Cook Country Hospital and dedicated to burning aborted babies. He threatened to quit as Chief Engineer of Cook County if ordered to unseal it and Cook County Board President George Dunne backed down. Until, Uncle Bud retired.
That was long ago.
Now, things have evolved and the union that was once led by people who fought abortion and Communism are Ok with policies embraced by Abortionists and the Communists, Rioters and Looters.
Donald Trump was a real estate hustler and a media darling when Uncle Bud and Uncle Bart had something to say about my beliefs and actions. They are at home with Christ and we are taking a knee when told to do so and always trying to stay WOKE.
I never had the slightest regard for Donald Trump, until he became the 45th President of the United States. I viewed him to be a narcissist and a boor.
I believe that he still might be both, but also more so.
In fact, any scan of my blog posts attests to that statement,
Once elected, Donald J. Trump was treated to a Tsunami of hate that runs madly to its yet unfinished spiral down into history.
Once elected and inaugurated, Donald J. Trump did exactly what he promised to do. He repealed Obama Care, re-negotiated the idiotic NAFTA trade scam, enforced genuine immigration reforms, reversed Obama's fascist (benefited oligarchs like Warren Buffet) Energy policies, enacted real reform in Education.
Doing exactly what he said he would do set loose the Dogs of WOKE - Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner, Barbra Streisand all of the JOURNOLISTAS of Obama and of course David Brooks.
From the howling cast of Hamilton to unemployed jazz musicians, from artists dependent upon the 65,000 annual NEH grants, to skilled tradesmen with paid up dues, to every media outlet and academic charlatan in the United States President Trump and his family and supporters are reviled, denounced and lied about with active and energetic joy.
No President has ever been treated as badly and with zero let-up. Even President Obama was cut yards of slack and merited very little consideration.
President Trump seems to invite greater and more virulent hostility, but he also seems impervious to the darts and spit-balls. Trump's wife and kids have my sympathies. The President? Not so much, He calls the tune.
That said, I detest the people who hate President Trump much more than their target. They are the people who hate everything that I admire - loyalty, genuine patriotism, religious tolerance, dedication to vocation and willingness to help a neighbor. People can get away with any lie, accusation, or calumny, because everyone is willing accept anything said or claimed against Donald Trump.
Lately, President Trump is claimed to have denigrated fallen American soldiers.
I doubt that very much. This is another morality spiral - out of control.
There are 58 days until the election and President Trump will trounce Joe Biden on November 3rd.
Why will he win? David Brooks. David Brooks is a fatuous ninny, with a career as a fatuous ninny.
Here is David Brooks on why Trump can't win :
Donald Trump has been running on a sense of menace, a sense that there is a lot of danger out there in the world and that he is the one to restore order. And so the keystone of his visit was the image of him standing behind — in front of a burned-out buildings, and he wants to convey that message.
Joe Biden has run as a uniter. And so he went to speak to the Blake family. He pleased them very much with his sensitivity of what they were going through.
And you would have to say the evidence so far is that the law and order campaign that Trump has been running since the convention has not shown much impact on the polls. He is still down seven or eight points.
If you ask people on a whole range of measures which candidate makes you feel safe, Biden wins on — any way you ask that question, Biden wins. If you ask people, is Donald Trump making it worse, 55 percent say Donald Trump is making it worse.
So, the law and order message, at least so far, and as expressed through Kenosha, not working...Real Clear Politics
Biden Wins! Morality spiral.
David Brooks backed Hilary Clinton in 2016 and predicted a thorough drubbing of Donald Trump.
David Brooks deplores Trump supporters - guys like me.
This from his pre-2016 election day New York Times brain-ooze:
A few weeks ago I met a guy in Idaho who was absolutely certain that Donald Trump would win this election. He was wearing tattered, soiled overalls, missing a bunch of teeth and was unnaturally skinny. He was probably about 50, but his haggard face looked 70. He was getting by aimlessly as a handyman.
I pointed to the polls and tried to persuade him that Hillary Clinton might win, but it was like telling him a sea gull could play billiards. Everybody he knows is voting Trump so his entire lived experience points to a Trump landslide. He was a funny, kind guy, but you got the impression his opportunities had been narrowed by forces outside his control.
Trump wins and will win again! He will win because people like David Brooks, caitiffs, poltroons, and alarmist wimps, hate happy people who can read a news article, pay attention to human events, pay their own way and cast their own votes. Like the guy in Idaho in soiled overalls, millions more Americans will cast their votes for Donald J. Trump.
Because filthy people like David Brooks feed the morality spiral, it will bring many millions of people " wearing tattered, soiled overalls, missing a bunch of teeth and . . . unnaturally skinny." to the polls to pull for Trump.
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