[Peace-discuss] Bacevich on Trump

[E. Wayne Johnson]

David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
>
> Americans today are deeply divided. There exists no greater symbol of 
> that division than Trump himself — the wild enthusiasm he generates in 
> some quarters and the antipathy verging on hatred he elicits in others.
>
> The urgent need of the day is to close that divide, which is as broad 
> as it is deep, touching on culture, the political economy, America’s 
> role in the world, and the definition of the common good
>
I didnt vote for Trump but I intend to next time around because some 
pundit said that NATO could not survive another 4 years of Trump.

Bacevich is saying, "Be reasonable and see it my way."

A large number of people who voted for Trump in 2016 did so because they 
despise the Clintons, and hate Hillary Clinton in particular,
not because they shared a strong common ideology with Donald Trump the 
tycoon.  You can use whatever symbolism you like
to stand for that division between Clinton voters and Clinton haters but 
it wasn't the Russians who brought people out
of the hills and hollows of rural america and the cul-de-sacs of 
suburbia to say "no, and I mean, No Hell No!" to Hillary Clinton and her 
ilk.
The antipathy for the Clintons does not "verge on hatred".  It is 
absolute and utter hatred of the Clintons and what they stand for
and more intense hatred of Hillary in particular.  There ain't no 
changing it.

The problem is with the way that people perceive the world.

Be reasonable, and see it my way, and we will have unity.


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