Stick to writing thrillers, Steve. You’re really good at it. I was on the committee that gave you the Hammett prize. As for your bien pensant poltical views, keep them to yourself please.
This administration is giving us the slippery slopes as we converse in ways that we've never had to before. To note karma for the suffering involved seems so wrong, and is. It may even be that the dead man was a Democrat, or a Trump opposing Republican. It may be that if any spiritual force was involved, it was to get Republicans, really conservatives and moderates, back to being in service to America and Americans, instead of this sick dance with a sick administration. If that. If anything.
Another issue, a slippery slope, is that in opposing with humor, we need to be sharp enough to know when we are being court jesters, which are good for the court, not the opposition. Late night shows cross this slippery slope often. For instance, for Trump to lie and say, that black unemployment is the lowest ever, the good parts of the economy are his doing, that Mexico will pay for a wall, and so forth ~~ for humorists to answer with something funny about that is to endear tragic leadership faults to down to human foibles. We end up saying not how horrible the suffering caused by this Congressional/Administrative combo, how unAmerican it is for people to pledge allegiance to Trump as he demands, instead of promising to be in service to America, which is why America hire's them, is to get people to internalize the inhumanities as just human idiosyncrasies that we all must accept.
Is it politics to be so evil? I suppose. But what this administration is doing supersedes politics. It is pouring blood onto religion, politics, American society. I suppose that is political, as is all the lies we have to endure. Just as it drips into the political, though, it is historical, and also economical. It is not what we need to have as a normal course of human events. Is hate politics? If so, it is what the greatness in America is against. Hate is hate, it smashes people and lives, before we spin it into such a category.
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There is another point to be made in the Stephen King post, which is that it is only one of his social media expressions, one he walked back quickly. Now, I have read Children of the Corn, and just recently watched Misery, but am hardly a fan and certainly not a follower. To pluck this tweet from his many, misrepresents whatever point he was making or whatever he was perseverating on.
It's like Trump combing the country to find a victim of violence from an immigrant, that can sit in the audience as he speaks of his hateful policies. Why not find all the good Samaritan immigrants. Why not tell of just one family separated by his hate.
Why not talk to legal immigrants, such as the gentleman from India who told me, “They should all have to go through the same crap I went through.” He is one of many immigrants I have met who do not share progressive orthodoxy on the subject. Heaven forfend, of course. As for King, I have better things to do with my life than waste time over his — or anyone else’s — politics.
The activist had been following ICE rules for years, and still she was taken into custody by surprise, while following the rules, and deported leaving her 8-year-old daughter behind. That's not politics, nor is it a story of an illegal immigrant who got her just deserts, nor is it a story of a foreigner who came to this country and killed someone. It's less understandable surely, but the reality of how shameful we have become as a country, politics aside.
The point that people are making, and evidently King as well, is that we are witnessing horrific treatment of human beings -- and maybe some wishful irrational idea that Republicans who are not stopping this rogue administration, ought to get some comeuppance.
It's a matter of bad things purposely inflicted upon mostly good people, and is evil to say shameful or disgraceful would be to pull punches. Good people are being badly hurt.
This administration is giving us the slippery slopes as we converse in ways that we've never had to before. To note karma for the suffering involved seems so wrong, and is. It may even be that the dead man was a Democrat, or a Trump opposing Republican. It may be that if any spiritual force was involved, it was to get Republicans, really conservatives and moderates, back to being in service to America and Americans, instead of this sick dance with a sick administration. If that. If anything.
ReplyDeleteAnother issue, a slippery slope, is that in opposing with humor, we need to be sharp enough to know when we are being court jesters, which are good for the court, not the opposition. Late night shows cross this slippery slope often. For instance, for Trump to lie and say, that black unemployment is the lowest ever, the good parts of the economy are his doing, that Mexico will pay for a wall, and so forth ~~ for humorists to answer with something funny about that is to endear tragic leadership faults to down to human foibles. We end up saying not how horrible the suffering caused by this Congressional/Administrative combo, how unAmerican it is for people to pledge allegiance to Trump as he demands, instead of promising to be in service to America, which is why America hire's them, is to get people to internalize the inhumanities as just human idiosyncrasies that we all must accept.
I have religion, Rus. Politics is not it.
ReplyDeleteI have religion, and understand politics. Hate is neither.
ReplyDeleteWhy was there no mention of the suffering cause by hateful deportation: Activists rally in protest of single mother’s deportation.
Is it politics to be so evil? I suppose. But what this administration is doing supersedes politics. It is pouring blood onto religion, politics, American society. I suppose that is political, as is all the lies we have to endure. Just as it drips into the political, though, it is historical, and also economical. It is not what we need to have as a normal course of human events. Is hate politics? If so, it is what the greatness in America is against. Hate is hate, it smashes people and lives, before we spin it into such a category.
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There is another point to be made in the Stephen King post, which is that it is only one of his social media expressions, one he walked back quickly. Now, I have read Children of the Corn, and just recently watched Misery, but am hardly a fan and certainly not a follower. To pluck this tweet from his many, misrepresents whatever point he was making or whatever he was perseverating on.
It's like Trump combing the country to find a victim of violence from an immigrant, that can sit in the audience as he speaks of his hateful policies. Why not find all the good Samaritan immigrants. Why not tell of just one family separated by his hate.
Why not talk to legal immigrants, such as the gentleman from India who told me, “They should all have to go through the same crap I went through.” He is one of many immigrants I have met who do not share progressive orthodoxy on the subject. Heaven forfend, of course.
ReplyDeleteAs for King, I have better things to do with my life than waste time over his — or anyone else’s — politics.
The activist had been following ICE rules for years, and still she was taken into custody by surprise, while following the rules, and deported leaving her 8-year-old daughter behind. That's not politics, nor is it a story of an illegal immigrant who got her just deserts, nor is it a story of a foreigner who came to this country and killed someone. It's less understandable surely, but the reality of how shameful we have become as a country, politics aside.
ReplyDeleteThe point that people are making, and evidently King as well, is that we are witnessing horrific treatment of human beings -- and maybe some wishful irrational idea that Republicans who are not stopping this rogue administration, ought to get some comeuppance.
It's a matter of bad things purposely inflicted upon mostly good people, and is evil to say shameful or disgraceful would be to pull punches. Good people are being badly hurt.