First, as evidenced by the previous Post on this blog, I misjudged the thinking of the majority of the people here in my beloved Land. I've always known WHY that majority is fed up with The Establishment and its Plutocracy. On the socio-economic scale, the lower 80% of people here have been shafted for decades. My mistake was in thinking: by now surely ALL people would see clearly that Trump is a) not the one to save them; and b), he's a con-man who actually is in favor of the ruling Plutocracy. I was wrong; they don't see it.
Here are just a few of the things the Trumpican Party victory reveals (in no particular order) ---
1. Apparently, too many of us have been dumbed-down to the point where we no longer are capable of critical thinking. In general, I blame our education system for that. Mainstream Media also are at fault. Have you noticed, for example, for many years young folks have been encouraged to skip a university education in favor of a vocational/trade school. Such schools certainly serve a valuable function; however, their limitations need to be considered. Generally, they don't provide a well-rounded education. Yes, it's true you don't need a university education to get a good job; but such a higher education provides most students with a lot more than a job. It broadens your worldview, and gives you skills in understanding what's important in life. It does more, but I need to keep this essay relatively short.
2. There also seems to be a serious problem with too many universities. It appears to me that too many of them are more concerned with not offending some group or another rather than exploring ways to develop open minds and critical thinking.
3. The mainstream, corporate faction of the Democratic Party is not paying enough attention to Main Street. Worse, they are marginalizing the Progressives in their Party, the ones who are tuned-in to Main Street.
4. The mainstream Dems who now rule their Party need to stop enabling Netanyahu's genocidal wars. They should do so not only for obvious ethical/moral reasons, but also because they won't get Arab-American votes until they do. [That's about 1.5 million votes. ]
5. Trump realized a long time ago that if you repeat a lie enough times, then people will come to believe it. He repeatedly lies/lied about immigrants, the economy, Democrats, any Republicans who oppose him, election integrity, crime stats, covid, the Media, etc., and all those lies have served him well.
6. The Upper Crust of the Dem Party has failed miserably at showing people the urgency of addressing the existential threat of ecological overshoot, and the fact that Trump policies will increase the threat & the urgency by orders of magnitude. Educational institutions, the Mainstream Media and others also have failed in that regard. Perhaps they all have failed because they don't fully understand the Crisis, or they still may believe we humans have until 2050 to address the problem. In any case, within ten years politics will not be uppermost in anyone's mind; but trying to find a degree of physical, mental, and economic comfort will be.
