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"...MAGA Fatigue... /// I'm not interested in bashing and mocking hard working people who hoped for something better, and saw a savior in Trump. Bashing innocent people for being too credulous is cowardly… I still can’t bring myself to completely (I said "completely") turn against Trump for reasons having nothing to do with him, but everything to do with people’s battered souls hanging in the precipice… /// When and how exactly does the ‘golden age of America’ begin to be felt…?"

To add to that---on the 'domestic' front: The way, and the way in which Trump speaks about things,… that 'mode' resonates directly and deeply with America's Kulak class. Meaning, the small-business owners---those types of 'hustlers'---meaning, in America today, those out there on their own operating in the "service industry" (*)… meaning, every Uber driver; meaning, the jet-ski rental guy; meaning, the mom and pop restaurant owner with the best smoked ribs in town… The American Kulaks love Trump. And, since the 1990s many of us have been moved into that service industry class… I love Trump in this context.

(*) Because, what 'industries' in America can the little guy---as a small business owner---be a part of these days if not in the "service industry"? A car manufacturing plant isn’t going to outsource the manufacture a certain car-part to the local tool&die guy…

Note: This is my understanding of the 'American Kulak class' framing by Isaac Simpson regarding "Trump and the ‘golden age of America'". Credit to Isaac.

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"I can’t even tell, anymore, where my own mind leaves off and implanted PSY OPs begin. That’s when I start writing about the cats, or quoting Cervantes, or posting Peter O’Toole’s drunk tales."

It's probably why I started watching cute kitten videos.

Assuming that life itself and humans are part of an intelligent and benevolent Source that created us - and I do assume this - then despite the parasitic-like take over of 'reality' - there is a way back to actual reality. I'd suggest Nature points us in that direction.

Less screens, more walks in woods will perhaps tip the balance back into something real. What a time. I so appreciate your self-reflection and honest attempts at sorting through, Celia. A consistently human voice. Thank you.

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