Life in the Trump Era, Part 2

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Manhattan DA has raided the offices of Newsweek.
http://www.businessinsider.com/newsw...ttorney-2018-1

The interim DA is a Giuliani partner, interviewed and hand picked by Trump.

Is your 401k worth more than the foundation of this country?

So when someone points out, using facts, that red states are benefiting from Trump, you respond by using hyperbole. You would be taken a lot more seriously if you used a rational argument instead.

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So when someone points out, using facts, that red states are benefiting from Trump, you respond by using hyperbole. You would be taken a lot more seriously if you used a rational argument instead.

Politicians and people who make a hobby of following politics are used to the rhetoric, posturing, and manipulation- it’s part of a game where the pendulum swings back and forth periodically but for the most part things just sort of move along comfortably. Trump sort of throws things off kilter, but then everyone resumes the gamesmanship.

The problem I see is that while people are analyzing the finer points of the game, they’re oblivious to the fact that a new game is being started, and the entrants to the game are not accultured to the rules of civil politicing.

The politicos are in the middle of the street slapping each other with white gloves and trading snide remarks, but the audience on either side of the street isn’t there to listen to the banter. The audience is sharpening its knives and would be happy to dispose of the oblivious gents in the street first so they can get to business.

Bile and hatred has been cultured dr a while on the far right, and while widespread indifference has provided a buffer with the more enraged parts of the left, that buffer of apathy is waining and left-sided anger is rising-fast.