My biggest concern about Trump is that he mimics Obama and trounces the constitution, expands the scope of the Federal government and inches ever closer to a “too big to fail” executive.
My second biggest concern about Trump is the pendulum – the swing back to a liberal majority.
Perhaps I’m wrong in fear number two:
But what made the tea party successful, according to Theda Skocpol, a Harvard professor whose field studies of the tea party movement became a 2011 book, was a particular climate on the political right. “We thought of the tea party as a set of several intersecting forces that were leveraging each other and helping to build each other’s clout to change and use the Republican Party,” she said. Self-organizing grass-roots groups, top-down professional advocacy and money groups, such as FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, along with right-wing media, swirled together to make the movement a success, according to Skocpol. It remains to be seen if the climate on the left will prove to be hospitable for the growth of a similarly effective movement.
Personally, my belief is that the Left is made up of fringe groups – each with their complaint. It might be the environment, or women’s rights, racism, the poor or refugees. Almost always the group is made up of people who themselves are not injured, but instead are people *representing* the injured.
Further, these groups don’t advocate policy that would require themselves OR the aggrieved to bear responsibility for the work to be done to fix the problem. THAT responsibility falls on someone else, usually the rich, the white or the man.
As such, because they don’t feel it their responsibility, combined with the fact that it is not them impacted, they will never dig deep enough to do the work.
I shouldn’t fear the professional ‘outrager’, but I admit to some lost sleep.
