TheForge wrote:
People may think I'm angered or frustrated by these thread with Dan, Barry or anybody else calling Trump Hitler. But it doesn't actually. Yes, I'm a little pissed that when I compared Obama to Hitler, I was labeled over the top and its a little annoying that they can still reconcile calling me over the top vs them now calling trump Hitler. But hey, I go to sleep at night much easier than the last 8 years. And I chuckle at their insanity over this. I almost feel bad for them if I wasn't so entertained by it and hope this fear and anguish goes on like this for 8 years.
You know, it's funny because my thoughts have been pretty similar until recently. I was laughing about the craziness. I figured if you can be that tribal and one sided in your thinking, and let the media get you that keyed up, then you deserve the anxiety that comes with your craziness.
However, in the past, I have come to regret living among the insane. I was laughing when people were buying all those internet stocks in 2000, but it turns out that all tech stocks were affected. I was laughing when people were speculating on housing in 2006 thinking to myself that I was so happy I wasn't going to get burned in that fire. Well, guess what? That fire went out of control, and I got burned.
So now, I'm thinking when I see Dan, and Ken, and others (not BarryP) going off the deep end and being generally inconsolable about Trump it worries me because this is getting to the point of mass hysteria. I've got a lot of people on my FB feed that were apoplectic after the election, and I'm not sure they're getting better either. The media is continuing to escalate the situation. They don't want to oppose Trump's initiatives one by one. They want him totally delegitimized, and they want him out of office. Meanwhile, Trump keeps poking the bear.
I've sort of assigned myself the mission -- well, test mission at this point -- of pushing back on the all-too-easy narrative here that absolutely everything that comes out of Trump's mouth is the most terrible lie ever said. However, I'm not sure if my arguing helps people see the light and calm down or if it just drives them even more nuts.