| Re: [PR&C] Presidential Race 2016 |
Subject: Re: [PR&C] Presidential Race 2016 by GRIS on 2015/9/11 14:42:56 SOME INSIGHT INTO THE TRUMP PHENOMENON FROM PEGGY NOONAN WRITING IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ON REFUGEES IN EUROPE: --- The gap between those who run governments and those who are governed has now grown huge and portends nothing good. Rules on immigration and refugees are made by safe people. These are the people who help run countries, who have nice homes in nice neighborhoods and are protected by their status. Those who live with the effects of immigration and asylum law are those who are less safe, who see a less beautiful face in it because they are daily confronted with a less beautiful reality—normal human roughness, human tensions. Decision-makers fear things like harsh words from the writers of editorials; normal human beings fear things like street crime. Decision-makers have the luxury of seeing life in the abstract. Normal people feel the implications of their decisions in the particular. The decision-makers feel disdain for the anxieties of normal people, and ascribe them to small-minded bigotries, often religious and racial, and ignorant antagonisms. But normal people prize order because they can’t buy their way out of disorder. People in gated communities of the mind, who glide by in Ubers, have bought their way out and are safe. Not to mention those in government-maintained mansions who glide by in SUVs followed by security details. Rulers can afford to see national-security threats as an abstraction—yes, yes, we must better integrate our new populations. But the unprotected, the vulnerable, have a right and a reason to worry. --- ---The biggest thing leaders don’t do now is listen. They no longer hear the voices of common people. Or they imitate what they think it is and it sounds backward and embarrassing. In this age we will see political leaders, and institutions, rock, shatter and fall due to that deafness. THIS DISCONNECT IS WHY A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO MAY FIND TRUMP PERSONALLY DISTASTEFUL SUPPORT HIM AND WOULD/WILL VOTE FOR HIM. THEY REALIZE THAT MY ENEMIES ENEMY IS MY FRIEND. |
