Well, Katha Pollitt NAILED IT! "I Hate People Now."

[Moral Compass]

5. Im Right there with her

I find myself even more irritable than I am normally. And I’m fairly irritable by nature.

But shortly after the election one of my Republican friends told me that I needed to give trump more time after he pretty much shit all over the country for a couple months and I completely and totally lost it. I don’t do that.

When I have a political discussion with these morons I tend to be very calm and ask them questions until they start stammering because they don’t ever know anything. But in this case what he said was like waving a red flag in front of a board. I came completely unglued.

Well, that was months ago. I just don’t have political discussions with anybody now that I suspect voted for Trump. One of the stupid is a member of my golf group and keeps bringing up NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem.

The last time he brought it up fortunately a Swede was in my group and we both looked him said let’s not talk about it. He started in again and I said “you know what we don’t come here to do is talk politics...how about we just talk something less controversial like anal sex or something like that.”

That shut him right up for some reason. But that is the only way I can cope right now. I’m furious with these morons. Anyone who voted for Trump and is not consumed with remorse is dead to me now.

The sad thing is I know I’m surrounded by complete idiots. That gives me a feeling for my country which I’ve never had.

During the Vietnam war when we were all so angry with one another I never lost hope. I could see that minds were beginning to change. When we did start pulling out of Vietnam even my father (shin served in Vietnam as an advisor) stopped talking about it being a noble and justifiable war.

But now, well, this is different.

We have enough people that are willing to destroy the country because they think they’re losing control.

This grotesque tax bill is going to go through and it is going to create a situation where in about 4-8 years they’ll be able to go after Social security,Medicare—everything they wanted to go after for all these decades.

By that time I will probably be forced to retire because I’ll be in my 70s. I’m now just hoping that by some miracle my wife and I will be able to live out our days with some semblance of dignity but I don’t really think that’s going to happen.

I have never felt so hopeless and so ashamed of my own people. Because these people that are doing this to our country are in every sense of the word my people. They are white, there are educated, and they are generally pretty well off— and they are willing to burn the whole country down to keep the monorities and immigrants from getting into a position of power.