Grumpy & Grouchy Try To Make America Great Again - Jim Murray - Canada

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PREFACE: If you are a conservative and you read this, you might get the feeling that this is nothing more than just a couple of lefties spouting off.
But the fact is that Phil & I are both experienced entrepreneurial business people, which probably makes us more conservative than liberal,and this election is not our first rodeo.
What is going on in the United States right now is unprecedented in its history. It is also reckless, poorly thought out and powered by lies. And as writers we both feel a strong obligation to point this out to our audience. Knowledge is power, and right now America is suffering from not enough of the former and a fascist maniac in control of the latter.

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“A FASCIST IS ONE WHOSE LUST FOR MONEY OR
POWER IS COMBINED WITH SUCH AN INTENSITY OF
INTOLERANCE TOWARD THOSE OF OTHER RACES,
PARTIES, CLASSES, RELIGIONS, CULTURES, REGIONS OR
NATIONS AS TO MAKE HIM RUTHLESS IN HIS USE OF

DECEIT OR VIOLENCE TO ATTAIN HIS ENDS.” |
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Jim: As a Canadian, who is a life-long fascinated student of the train wreck that is American politics, I have to tell you that I am completely mystified by what I have seen over the past 15 months leading up to the election of Donald Trump and the two months, which seems like a year, of his actual presidency.
I have seen more genuine hatred and vitriol erupt during this election campaign than any in the long series of elections I have observed.
And I lay the blame for this all at the feet of Agent Orange, who in my opinion is quite possibly the most psychologically damaged individual in America, living outside of a managed care facility or asylum, to ever run for high office.
His campaign very much appears to have sprung from the pages of Mein Kampf. And he appears, for all intents and purposes, especially when you look at the policies he is trying to get into law, to have completely abandoned the people who got him elected in the first place, and to whom he promised jobs, safety, law and order and affordable health care.
Instead, he is simply pandering to the wishes of the billionaire class, with huge tax cuts, de-regulation of the coal, oil and gas industries, a complete disregard for the major environmental issues that the world is facing, while all the while, pursuing ego-gratifying trivia and outright slander on social media.
That’s my opinion. You are welcome to try and refute it as you like, sir. In fact, I would love nothing more that to have someone prove to me that Trump is not the re-incarnation of A. Hitler.

Phil: You and I agree on a few issues and disagree on quite a lot, especially when you give into your own signature brand of hyperbole. And I sincerely wish this was one of the times that I could disagree with you.
Unfortunately for all of us, this time, I can’t ― hyperbole notwithstanding. Because this is a case in which political overstatement pales in comparison to the reality of the situation.
You’ve compared Trump to Hitler, both in a satirical Photoshopped image you published several days ago and now in your introduction here. And my first instinct would normally be to call you out on overstatement.
But how can I, when it’s come out over this past weekend that Trump Republicans are pushing legislation that “… would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that genetic and other health information.”
( http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/house-republicans-would-let-employers-demand-workers%e2%80%99-genetic-test-results/ar-AAo5Qb1?li=BBnb7Kz )
This move to undo the spirit of the 2008 U.S. Law on Genetic Privacy and Nondiscrimination, labeled “GINA”, is both clearly racist and a new, very ugly reincarnation of the eugenics so beloved by Hitler and the Nazis.
It’s racist because, for instance, it will result in the targeting of African American women who have a much higher incidence of breast cancer than the rest of the U.S. population. For it will enable insurance companies to re-rate policies based on the higher risk of large payouts for treatment to that segment of the population.
Downstream of that, it targets African-American families in general, because of the potential effect it will have on hiring for jobs. Let’s not be so naïve as to think that employers will not be concerned with the cost-effect of including significant numbers of higher-risk individuals in their group insurance populations.
Moreover, once this information can be demanded by and released to employers, there is way too big a chance that it will result in all manner of race and genetic targeting, not the least of which could be a new putsch to cleanse the races in the new, great Amerika. I wonder how all my fellow Jews in NYC and elsewhere in the nation, who supported Trump either openly or from the closet, feel about it now.

Jim: To deny that this is a serious shitstorm would be the complete folly I will leave to the likes of KellyAnne Conway and Shawn Spicer, the tweedle dum and tweedle dee of the Trump administration.
The psychosis on display here is rather like a virulent form of flesh-eating disease which is consuming all but the rich and the white in America. But over the time that I have been writing about it, I have become almost consumed with trying to figure out how a country the size of America could actually produce so many uninformed, ignorant and gullible voters, which really were the core of those who elected Trump.
I keep hearing people tell me that a lot of ‘intelligent’ people also voted for Trump, but to me all this means is that America is now grading intelligence on a curve and that curve is pretty steep.
I sit up here on in my beautiful little Canadian city and spout out these observations and am constantly told that because I am not American I can’t possibly know what’s really going on.
That is pretty much the lamest bullshit I have ever heard. A pile of dung is a pile of dung no matter where it is observed from. I can’t tell you how many Canadians I’ve talked to who have just written off the whole country. Never want to set foot in it again. I’m one of them and I have friends like you all over America, which saddens me to no end.
I have been around for a long time and have literally never seen an industrialized country hijacked by such a dark, uncaring gang of white Anglo-Saxon crooks and charlatans (and a token Negro) as I have seen in the development of this administration.
But what’s worse is that they are led by such an egotist, that protests and legal challenges don’t really mean anything, which in turn empowers all his henchmen.
They are lying and pillaging the country with almost complete impunity and this I put on the so-called leadership of the Republican party who are in their own way even worse because they have been in politics a long time and should know where all this is going to lead, and straight to hell would be putting it mildly.
You and I both know the delicate balance that’s required to run any large enterprise. And frankly, I see this balance dangerously perched on edge of a thousand foot drop.
And all because the political system in America is badly in need of a complete overhaul. I only hope it’s really not too late. How about you?

Phil: Of course, I hope it’s not too late. But I fear we are witnessing the closing phase of the “Grand Experiment”. I read and hear all the time that a measure of optimism is required and that we should give the Trump administration time to sort itself out.
But I ask, “To what end?” To finish its complete turnover in the Justice Department, in order, as I see it, to roll back policies of vigorous protection of civil rights? To repack the U.S. Supreme Court, so that the administration can further its pretty obvious program of dismantling our system of representative government, in order to replace it with a de facto despotic oligarchy?
The main problem is that too many people have taken to forcing Perception to fit Preconception. For example, they’re still saying in various sectors that Trump is a populist, while right before their eyes, he is appointing major players from the banking and financial sector to top administrative posts. Where the hell is Jesse James when we need him most?
They’re still saying loudly that Trump is turning out the Washington “regulars” and bringing change to D.C., while, in fact, he has not done anything that would signal an upcoming substantive change to the system of privilege, but only that he is substituting his own cohorts and fellow travelers for those currently in power.
And I have to tell you that I wonder daily how the smug “idealists” ― those disappointed Bernie Sanders supporters, the splinter-party members, and the Rust state working-class union members who refused to vote because they didn’t like the choice between Trump and Clinton ― feel now. Are they still in their self-serving, self-delusional cocoons of denial concerning how bad things are and how likely they are to get even worse?
I guess if you’re up in Bumf@#k, North Dakota or somewhere like it, you can cling to your illusion that withholding your vote “made a statement”. I guess if you’re one of the working poor in a Rust state and struggling without health insurance and adequate medical care, you can keep asking yourself, “What do we have to lose by going with Trump?” But the fact is you made no real statement about anything other than your ignorance of political reality, and you do have a lot to lose, as is demonstrated daily under this current presidency.

Jim: There are a lot of people In America who have been genuinely hard done by by your government’s ineptitude and the greed and apathy of a great many of your politicians. You could argue that it’s more or less the same way everywhere. But I honestly believe that with Barack Obama, you had a leader who really understood what America was all about, and who managed to figure out how to pull the country out of one of the deepest financial crises it faced in the modern era, despite the virtual wall of congressional obstruction he had to deal in both his terms.
And he doesn’t get anywhere near the credit he deserves for that. Nor for the respect that he had garnered from pretty much all the rest of the world ex-crazy assholes like Putin some of the more whacked-out middle east leaders..
It’s no real mystery to me that the country has capitulated to the bozo Trump. For the same reason that they are incapable of appreciating all Obama’s good work, which has been positioned by Trump as less than nothing. They are woefully politically ignorant and uneducated. And they were so far gone by the time Obama came along that there was really no hope for them to appreciate the situation and tireless work he did to remedy it.
Let’s face it. Trump’s politics and his agenda have nothing whatsoever to do with the conservative ethos. It is fascism pure and simple. And it’s compounded by a massive need for ego gratification, absolute control and demagoguery. He is pretty much the most deeply flawed leader the world has seen since Hitler, Stalin or Idi Amin.
As much as I hate to say it, your country, IMHO, has made a serious mistake in this election. They were conned by a very skillful con man who through a virtually endless barrage of lies, half-truths, fake news and just plain bullshit, managed to convince a great many people that they basically had nothing to lose by electing him.
Sadly, this has turned into the biggest political fiasco in the history of the free world. Giving this maniac a year to prove himself can, and probably will irreparably damage what was, warts and all, a pretty damn good country.

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7 years ago #2

God I love this...

Cyndi wilkins

7 years ago #1

#1
I wish I had something intelligent to say about this mess...But I am truly at a loss for words here. Waking up the morning after was like realizing you had not protected yourself after a night of drunken sex...Dreadful! But I will say this... this man (if I can even refer to him as one) has forced us all to face our deepest fears...We all have a lot of work to do...and that my friends is a global issue...Not exclusive to the American people by any stretch of the imagination.

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