... OR: "ALL" of the ABOVE"??
If you listen to the verbiage emanating from the carnage on the RIGHT, or, from the "more civilized" spatting on the LEFT; you will hear the word "WE"; as much, or more than any other.
We're all left to deduce, on our own, (with the not-so-subtle shoving from the likes of Scarborough, little "Chuckie" Todd, or, Anderson Cooper); just who in Hell are 'WE"?? TRUMP and CRUZ make it easier for us. We simply compare ourselves to the Cro-Mangnon's they have on display at their Rallies. We see a great deal of inferences to RACE, Class, COLOR, Education, Intelligence, and Gender; but not a lot about PLACE! That indicates that COMMUNITY is an empty word; whenever its used. Community almost always implies some kind of Geography! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro-Magnon
No matter what patch of Geography you, and those you care about, occupy; all HELL is breaking loose around you, as the Global Economy continues to do what it has been doing since the Multinational Corporations were invented by our Congress (1973). Later, (1989), the collapse of the old Soviet Union accelerated the collapse of Governments around the World. Long-buried animosities surfaced to new Strongman "wannabee's". The Politicians who serve their bidding, all resort to FEAR and suspicion of some "Other".
Triangulators were best at this, whether in Elected Office, or serving within Agencies or Institutions. The best Politicians in my lifetime to fit this designation, for good or for ill, have been figures like Churchill, FDR, LBJ, and Bill Clinton. Then, there are the outright Dictators, who lack the skill or patience to work their prey into a posture of participation in their own downfall!
Then there are people, like American Blacks, and the Catholic Faithful, who have been groomed for hundreds of years to participate in their own Degradation. Regardless of your view of yourself as a Predator, or as Prey; you are being seduced by Media, and skillful Politicians to envision yourself within one or more of the proclamations of "We" ; as it tumbles from the lips of TRUMP, or CRUZ! Both of these Demagogues are relying on the Mirror, and the TV Camera to fill in Color, or other Cultural ingredients!
Stay Vigilant! The COMMUNITY word may be the most important, even if it is also the most vague. When you hear the word, ask yourself, WHERE is the "Community"? Can I visit it?? Are the people there really of the same Mind-Set? Pray to GOD there is NO Such Place, like those referred to by the likes of TRUMP or CRUZ. If you elect either, I'm sure they would be very happy to CREATE such places. (Electronic, or Social, "Communities" are most likely Potemkin Villages??)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
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