Monday, March 7, 2016

Howard Kunstler: The Birthing Of Trump’s America: The Swindlers Vs. The Swindled

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=33146

Beyond the Kubler-Ross maelstrom of denial, anger, depression, etc., besetting this spavined republic, lies the actual grief provoking it all — especially the shocking loss of national purpose embodied by the muppets and puppets onstage nightly vying to bring out the worst in us in an election season far from just silly. Judging from their demeanor in the so-called debates, the candidates seem not only sick of their opponents but of themselves, a fitting outcome perhaps in a nation that hates what it has become.

 When truth and reality become de-linked, a society literally doesn’t know what it is doing.

 With that goes the collective sense of purpose, replaced with bromides and platitudes such as Trump’s “make America great again,” and Hillary’s “In America, every family should feel like they belong.”

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