Unsurprised By Anything

Are they going to steal our dreams, too?

Who are these people, and where did they come from? How did they get so ugly? From the top on down, they come across as automatons—cold, calculating, programmed, incapable of empathy or kindness in the quantities required of people who hold such great responsibilities. Somehow less than human, with a creepy affective deficit.

It’s honestly difficult to imagine many of these people having what might be considered a normal home life, where they interact with a spouse or a child or a dog, or take time to tell a joke or laugh at themselves. I imagine many of them waking up angry every day.

They’re scary and out of touch. They appear to have one-track minds, to be driven only by the thought of taking things away– and often in the name of pleasing their God. What kind of America are they envisioning? Is it really one that serves only their interests, their thinly veiled racism and fear masquerading as fiscal belt-tightening and “efficiency”? How Third Reich-ish can they get?

There’s a “mandate” for this?

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