Amulets, White Noise, and Trump Reality

[DCPatriot]

March 11, 2018
Amulets, White Noise, and Trump Reality
By Clarice Feldman

The left (I refuse to call regressives "progressives") is finding it hard to deal with a reality in which the markets are up, unemployment is down, household income is rising, ISIS is being crushed, and Kim Jong-un is being lassoed.

Former NYT editor Jill Abramson probably reflects the paper's Upper West Side of Manhattan when she reveals she carries as an amulet (against the reality of a Trump presidency) – a little Obama doll in her purse – to comfort herself.  "It's easy to look at what's happening in Washington, DC, and despair. That's why I carry a little plastic Obama doll in my purse.  I pull him out every now and then to remind myself that the United States had a progressive, African-American president until very recently.  Some people find this strange, but you have to take comfort where you can find it in Donald Trump's America."

Somehow, her former paper scoured the earth to find a method-actor pig-farmer in Athens, Ohio who has found another way to shut out reality and keep his worldview intact – he plugged his ears with white noise to cut out all news.

Jeffrey Satinover observes: "'He is as ignorant as a contemporary citizen could ever hope to be' states the author.  But, no, that's not so.  For this gentleman simply knows nothing where there is something to be known.  Believing readers of the Times, however, and authors for the Times, they are far more ignorant than the know-nothings for they are chock full of beliefs that more often than not, and mostly on matters of great importance, are flatly false.  It's not nearly so bad to say, 'I don't know if the earth is round or flat' as it is to be arrogantly certain that it's flat."

For the rest of us, this week's news shows how transformational the president is.  Abramson, I suppose, will just have to clutch her doll more often, and the pig-farmer, like Rip van Winkle, eventually will awake from his self-induced slumber – in his case, to a world he could hardly imagine: a far more prosperous, orderly, peaceful place than the left-wing globalists have imposed for a couple of decades.

more at link.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/amulets_white_noise_and_trump_reality.html

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Thanks DC for posting Clarice Feldman, one of the clearest thinkers in political punditry today. She consistently sees the forest for the trees.

[DCPatriot]

Thanks DC for posting Clarice Feldman, one of the clearest thinkers in political punditry today. She consistently sees the forest for the trees.

You're welcome, AC!

....yet totally ignored here at TBR.

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You're welcome, AC!

....yet totally ignored here at TBR.

With 63 views, not totally.

The search function being what it is, I posted the same a few hours later. I think there are 48 views of that thread and with no replies.

I think that people not interested in indulging the Perpetual Argument will read without commenting.

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With 63 views, not totally.

The search function being what it is, I posted the same a few hours later. I think there are 48 views of that thread and with no replies.

I think that people not interested in indulging the Perpetual Argument will read without commenting.

Exactly. The constant criticisms ring hollow in light of the wonderful job President Trump is doing. Most fair minded folks see that and weary of the argument. I’m certainly doing my part in starving the trolls.

You know, for an insult to stick there must be some truth in it and there the critics are lacking. My favorite insult thrown at Trump lately is Little Parade Boy. LOL. They grasp at anything. Weak, really weak.