RE: How has Trump impacted your life personally
May 14, 2017 at 8:36 am
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2017 at 9:03 am by Jeanne.
Edit Reason: test result addition
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Initially, I was dismayed that I actually hoped another human being's head would explode. Further dismay as I witnessed him suck the air out of the Republican field of decent candidates. I was concerned that I was witnessing the beginning of a bombastic dictatorship gleefully supported by my fellow citizens.
I changed party affiliation, which means little to me, in order to vote AGAINST Trump in the Republican Primary. As time when on, I decided that I could vote for no major candidate for president and so, I wrote in my choice from those still in the official running.
As Trump began to "act more presidential" I at least thought there was a chance to save something....but I also reckoned that a Clinton win might bring the nation all the way down, so the struggle to fight back up to surface might then begin; a long hard and depressing haul that would most likely be fought by our grandchildren if they cared enough. The cycle of history and human oppression yielding revolution runs something like that.
Then he actually won and I was happy that Clinton lost, hoping the family would fade into total non-relevance. And...surprisingly, I relaxed a bit and became cautiously optimistic, remaining thus until recently, when I stopped paying much attention to political news.
Currently, I am just weary of it all.
So far, no actual impact on our lives, although a curtailment of some EPA power is expected to ease some over-reaching regulations on farmers and land owners. We are each concerned with global events being shaped by Trump's foreign relations, but also glad that the US is once again building its military and exerting muscle where need be and repairing our alliances.
If there is a world war coming, it has little to do with the past 100 days, as it has been brewing for some decades.
Everything has been brewing for decades and whomever got elected would be dealing with it currently. Most of us just hold on and try to ride out whatever comes our way, with whomever is driving.
My test results:
Economic Left/Right: -1.5 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.85
-Jeanne
I changed party affiliation, which means little to me, in order to vote AGAINST Trump in the Republican Primary. As time when on, I decided that I could vote for no major candidate for president and so, I wrote in my choice from those still in the official running.
As Trump began to "act more presidential" I at least thought there was a chance to save something....but I also reckoned that a Clinton win might bring the nation all the way down, so the struggle to fight back up to surface might then begin; a long hard and depressing haul that would most likely be fought by our grandchildren if they cared enough. The cycle of history and human oppression yielding revolution runs something like that.
Then he actually won and I was happy that Clinton lost, hoping the family would fade into total non-relevance. And...surprisingly, I relaxed a bit and became cautiously optimistic, remaining thus until recently, when I stopped paying much attention to political news.
Currently, I am just weary of it all.
So far, no actual impact on our lives, although a curtailment of some EPA power is expected to ease some over-reaching regulations on farmers and land owners. We are each concerned with global events being shaped by Trump's foreign relations, but also glad that the US is once again building its military and exerting muscle where need be and repairing our alliances.
If there is a world war coming, it has little to do with the past 100 days, as it has been brewing for some decades.
Everything has been brewing for decades and whomever got elected would be dealing with it currently. Most of us just hold on and try to ride out whatever comes our way, with whomever is driving.
My test results:
Economic Left/Right: -1.5 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.85
-Jeanne
"The Ox is slow, but the Earth is patient."
