Political Boiler Rooms

[*wildcats forever*]

(05-15-2017, 01:14 PM)Dill Wrote: I don't watch Homeland so I don't get the boiler room reference.

Dissatisfaction may be a better word than hate. I am 65 years old and I have not seen so much dissatisfaction with a president since Johnson and Nixon. And we aren't even halfway through Trump's first year.

There is a lot of real "hate" too, of course.

My view is rather the flip side of yours. I feel like there can't possibly be that much support for Trump, given the incompetence, narcissism, authoritarian tendencies, misogyny and so forth. But there is. That is the mystery.

Same for me, and we're generally the same age. Our Vietnam era leaders showed us how NOT to be, and it's been a struggle to correct our path since then until lately, when the path was obliterated. I'm right on the edge of buying into the bizarre philosophy that 45 is blatantly exposing every vile facet of our system deliberately just to get the Nations attention on the severity of the problem(s). That's giving him a helluva lot of credit, something that I really have a hard time believing though the end result seems unavoidable. The Trump supporters that I know aren't showing any level of support these days however. Instead, they aren't saying anything at all, just glance down and shrug a lot. Change is coming I think, and much of it is because of social media, think tanks, 'boiler rooms'. It's becoming therapy for a country in dire need of healing.