Though, in general, I have a low opinion of the American
electorate esp. the Trump hardcore — the dumbest, angriest, most self-defeating
of them all, nonetheless the driving force of change — it seems even it can
rise to protest when the benefits allotted by Medicaid are being snatched away.
Hey, gummint, get your filthy hands off my Medicare!
Yeah!
I remember when NPR was covering Hurricane K. it tracked
this one sorry guy who had lost it all in the flood but who was proud that at
least he didn't take help from the gummint.
Yeah, 'cause that's the last thing you want to do, get any
goddamn aid from your elected goddamn gommint.
Sure such gov't aid is conceived by whites further north
than New Orleans as aid to blacks. Who wants to fund that?
But that ain't it.
ain't it at all.
Doesn't explain it.
That kind racism doesn't explain it.
Maybe gummint is resented among the white people of New
Orleans and environs as conceived of as North defeating South and putting an
end to secession.
Maybe all about secession. All about the Civil War. All
about slavery.
Maybe this guy who'd rather drown in Katrina flood than
accept gummint handout dreams dimly of himself and family back then owning some
slaves. Or being allowed to.
Some slaves would be good. . .
Cool hypothesis. But that ain't it.
. . .
My dental hygienist today, an Ethiopian by birth, while
expertly disimpacting my teeth, couldn't help commenting on the NPR broadcast
in the background, and murmuring she believes in God and religion and
everything but this is awful.
Is God against science?
God doesn't care about the environment? God never heard of
climate change?
She said all this Trump stuff is so stupid.
Not about issues. Not about this or that.
Just stupid. Just plain dumb.
You can argue and win about this issue or that, sometime. But
then there is the peculiarly American strain of sheer stupidity, that is multi-resistant
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