commonsense wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 7:23 pm
I mention the comedic barbs here because in Trump’s case, it was never good-natured ribbing. Never.
That's what I noticed, too. There was no willingness on the part of the media, Hollywood or even the Democrat public, to find Trump funny, or to do the usual sorts of satire, mannerism-mocking, or the sort of "well, we don't like him, but he's our Prez" kind of thing that comedians had made their living doing since anybody can remember. Their hatred (and that's the right word) and spitefulness was hot from day 1. That's very odd...because you couldn't possibly say there was no way to find funny things about Trump.
At the same time, you'll note, we've been informally 'instructed" or led to understand, that mockery of Biden is traitorous. No matter what obvious gaffes he makes, or no matter how disastrous his policies, it is not every okay, according to the media, to undermine Biden in any way -- or so it's been until lately, when Biden's folly has become so obvious that even many Leftist media sources are now trying to get some distance from him. But still, criticism is very muted, when it comes to Biden. That's "Trumpism," they'll tell you...it's disloyalty to....to what?
I think the animus stems from an intense emotional disgust. Whenever there seems to be no reason for an attitude or an opinion or really anything, it’s because it’s an unreasonable or irrational opinion or what not; it’s emotional.
I agree...it's irrational. And the emotional disgust that's been ginned up is totally disproportionate to any known "crimes" or "misdemeanours" we know him to have done. Clinton or Biden can sexually assault as many women as they like, and we don't blink. There's no emotional reaction to any of that. So why? That's the question I keep coming back to.
I suspect it is fear. Not fear of Trump, but rather fear of change, fear of loss, fear of being unheard, fear of being unsafe and out of control.
I don't think it can be.
The Democrats cheer when there are militants in the streets, and local business are in flames. They don't bat an eye when a black policeman is shot by looters, or a Korean shopkeeper is kicked to death in the streets. A granny is beaten bloody by a huge attacker at an ATM, and it doesn't even make the news on most stations. How can people who tolerate all that evil be "fearful"? What are they "fearing"? Clean, peaceful streets?
Anyone can say they don’t like Trump because of his actions regarding, say, the Southern border,
I don't see why.
I'm extremely pro-Honduran, myself. I have lots of friends there, and have been there four times. But the stampede to the open border is destroying the whole northern sector of that country, enriching the Mexican coyotes, traffickers and smugglers, and actually getting people killed. It's in everybody's interest that access to the border should be lawful, orderly and controlled. It serves nobody but criminals that it's not.
It’s emotions that determine who gets a pass, not reason.
But those are not natural emotions. They're controlled, induced ones. The media is telling people they have duty to hate Trump. They're not really saying why...although they tried (and got caught) the Russia hoax and other nonsense like that, to fill out some narrative they could sell. But the Democrats gladly accepted millions from him in donations, and the American public loved Trump on his television shows, lapped up every bit of celebrity news about his exploits, played in his casinos and stayed in his hotels...
until he became president. Then, suddenly, he's this "toad" that nobody can stand?
Why? It's clear it's an
emotional reaction, just as you say: but who's creating it and manipulating us, and for what purpose? Shouldn't we know, before we happily join their ranks and march along?
