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A Meditation: Jóhann Jóhannsson, "Flight From the City"

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Belafon2/22/2018 5:47:51 am PST

re: #20 freetoken

Looking at my Facebook network of connections, I don’t see the Trumpers changing their minds. They’re as dug in as ever. Some rarely post anymore, but that doesn’t mean they’ve changed their minds.

There are several Congressional districts around this country which the Republicans won in the last election by only a few points. It’s not unreasonable to expect many of these to flip to Democrats in the midterms.

However, I remain to be convinced that the Trumpers who put Trump in office are going to diminish. They are as much America as any other group, and I am not convinced that the social changes which brought these folk to reject the decent candidates for the grotesque one are going to lessen any time soon.

And we notice that with the doubling down by the gun nuts in the wake of the latest mass shooting.

Germans still haven’t eradicated their Nazis, they just forced them to become confederates.

No, we won’t get rid of these groups. There will always be homophobes, racists, and sexists. The big question, though, is what are the rest of us going to do about that. Give up in defeat? Ignore them, or recognize these people exist, what they will do given power, and do what we can to minimize the damage they can do in the future?