re: #111 Testy Toad T

I actually think it was exactly the Trumpenproletariat, which is the scariest thing to me about it. Leave vote was strongly anti-correlated with wealth, and with education. This is all about people who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s when there were ample manufacturing jobs and a healthy blue-collar workforce.

When people feel left behind, and they can’t figure out how to save themselves, they do stupid shit. This was England’s Trump, in issue form rather than personhood, but the fact that it won convincingly makes this one of the scariest nights of my life.

The monster is here, and it is real, and it’s hard to say how far down the pit goes.

Yeah, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” has been running through my mind tonight.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Epilog for “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”