re: #272 Mattand

Anthony Bourdain gave an interview in the Daily Beast flogging the new season of his show on CNN. Apparently he goes to West Virginia and “gets real” with the folks about why they love their guns and support Trump.

He couches it in the usual “We have to have a conversation, everyone needs to listen, we have to understand their fears” stuff.

I’m so sick of hearing this. I’m so fucking tired of hearing I need to understand why people, who are so proud of being Christian and American, looked at a bigoted, immoral monster like Trump and said “Yeah, that’s our guy.”

I just don’t get it. Or I do, and it makes me sick to my stomach.

What if - now, bear with me here - what if I already DO understand their fears?

And what if I understand that most of what they are afraid of is not true, and the other stuff they’re afraid of is best addressed by something other than trying to recreated the US of the 1950s in a 21st Century world?

What if I also understand the fears of the rest of society, and what if I have compared the two and find the fears of the Trumpkins to be trivial and silly by comparison?