A Provocative Question

[Jamie McKittrick]

It's not a provocative question, David. The appointment of Bannon is
disgusting and worrying in equal measure. And, at least in the UK,
immigration and the resident Other (specifically Eastern European and
Middle Easterners) incites more ire and fear than the threat of ISIS,
though that obviously plays a part (although, UK still has that body of
water that gives us, like you guys, and as you say, some distance, so I
can't speak for the rest of Europe, jeez I can't speak for the rest of the
UK, only myself).

My grandmother told me and brothers - three of us in total, all in our mid
20s-early 30s - that she voted leave in the Referendum for *our *sakes'. In
our names. To ensure that we can have jobs and homes. Without even asking
us what we thought on the matter. Because "this country's too full," she
says. To breaking point
<http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/06/20/00/35593B7200000578-3649705-image-a-42_1466380363545.jpg>,
which the right-wing press force down on us every day. Recently three high
court judges who ordered that Parliament should be involved in the process
of negotiation for terms for leaving the EU were labelled "Enemies of the
People" on the front page of the Daily Mail. Yeah, those words are used
outside of *la Terreur*, or Pol-fucking-Pot or Nazi Germany or Lenin's
Russis, nothing to be concerned about there... People read what they
believe and they believe what they read. More fake news than real news
shared on Facebook during election campaign. The Internet seems to be going
through its Victorian Entrepreneur stage where wallpaper is sold with
arsenic but it's ok to make a cheap buck off of some poor schmuck because
nobody's going to stop you.

So to see this porcine fuck take a major role in US government. That is
very scary, very sick... SAD!!!!!!! as the future POTUS might tweet.

The more I learn, the more I wish I hadn't. Guilty consciences sometimes
stop people from doing more bad stuff, right?

-J

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 3:27 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do P-list Europeans feel/think about the fact that the US
> President-elect has made an "alt-right" Nazi his top advisor?  It makes me
> sick.  How does it make you feel?
>
> The rise of Nazis in the US is different than the nationalist right in
> Europe, but they  both are rooted in fear.  In the US that fear is against
> all our resident Others, and less so insurgent ISSIS groups, despite GOP
> propaganda.  Like WW2, we have an ocean and colonial/imperial distance to
> protect us.  So we can be more smug.  But we seem more paranoid than
> warranted.  Guilty conscience, maybe?
>
> David Morris
>
>
>
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