Pacifiers For All
Source: Robert De Niro Responds to Trump Win: I Feel Like I Did After 9/11
During elections and especially Presidential elections, candidates are under constant pressure to build arguments in favor of their worldviews. The logic is that if they can make their case compellingly and with logic, people can be swayed to see things their way.
Turns out that this whole exercise in logic and civility is a complete waste of time. From the crazed responses ( and there is no way to minimize this ) to the recent election, there is no amount of logic that can appease the nutters who are hard wired in their mental delusion.
From the drama queens such as DeNiro comparing it to 9-11, and Cher heading to Jupiter to students huddled in mass cry-ins and having stress dogs to pet as well as using coloring books to cope, it looks like a neutron bomb of stupidity was released at some point affecting the cerebral cortex of select parts of the population.
This has been manifest by the hysterical wailing from most in the entertainment business and given voice by a complicit media. It’s unclear why anyone would consider that the opinions of such intellectual heavyweights as Miley Cyrus and Wanda Sykes are any more important than the guy driving a tractor in Iowa. The rejection of Trump by the glitterati is not really a rebuke of the man as much as it is a dismissal of the population that voted for him. It is the height of condescension that was rightfully kicked over in the election like a flimsy sand castle.
A sense of self importance has been de rigeur for years in the entertainment business and is a rite of membership for the most part. Luckily, regular folk can choose to ignore or discount their obtuse rants. The unexpected and scary revelation is the frightening degree of extended adolescence among the college set; the pool of future decision makers.
They are taught and espouse a worldview which is clearly delusional and which professes rejection of hatred and ignorance, both straw men of their own imaginations. When students are taught to think correctly rather than critically, the results will be, well, the snowflakes that are created daily. It’s a fair guess that many privileged kids in school today live insulated lifestyles supported by parents that quite possibly represent the population they disdain. If a school needs safe zones and rules against micro-aggressions, then the education is literally not worth the paper that the diploma is printed on. For those students, instead of a mortar board and certificate, perhaps they can be awarded a binky and safety pin upon graduation.