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Monday, March 14, 2016

Trump, Rage, Violence And The Totemic Demotion Of White Americans

Dear Fred,

Thanks for Frog Hospital.

I like your new "paint job!" 

 We flower children die hard.

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I have no question about the underlying reason for Trump's popularity.

People -- especially "Caucasians" transiting from "white privilege" to minority status -- are furious at their totemic demotion.

Trump validates this rage, particularly the ill-informed (and counter-productive) wrath his followers feel for dark-skinned people.... Vietnam, Iraq, The Spanish-American War ("Remember the Maine!"), Nicaragua, the ever ready target of American blacks, and the subtler-but-equally-devastating attacks on Mossadegh's Iran, Arbenz Guzman's Guatemala and Allende's Chile.

Timeline Of U.S. Military Operations
Wikipedia

"Do War's Really Defend America's Freedom?"
(Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)

Dwight Eisenhower: War Is Brutal, Futile, Stupid

The Age-Old Normalization Of Warfare Through Stupidity, Ego And Religion


Properly Understood, The Iraq War Was An Ego-Driven Exercise In State-Sponsored Terrorism 
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/11/we-are-not-at-war-with-islam-exchange.html

Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War

Not only does Trump undertake philosophical attack, he justifies brown-shirt mob-violence which few of his supporters would dare enact without the cover, encouragement and pack-solidarity provided by Alpha Dog.

It is politically advantageous that Trump's "righteous attacks" find deep resonance in "Christianity's" age-old reverence for "God's smiting hand."
"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image 
when it turns out God hates all the same people you do."

Tom Weston S. J.

Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others

Abrahamic Religions Must Deal With Their Own Bronze Age Atavism And Not Just Window Dress

All 3 Abrahamic Religions Should Be As Ashamed Of Themselves As They Are Now Self-Certain

Christianity's Bedrock Commitment To Torture: Remaking "The Faithful" In God's Image

"Trial By Ordeal: The Bloody Old Testamental Roots Of Modern Justice"

"The Christian Paradox: How A Faithful Nations Gets Jesus Wrong"
Bill McKibben

Nor does Trump stop at the half measure of politically-pornographic fantasy. 

He delivers physical climax. 

The Donald does not feed his "dogs of war" the poor porridge of soy-protein feeder pellets; rather, he heaves them great gobs of raw meat. 

 Continually, and without shame. 

 If called to task, Trump doesn't double down, he triples down.
Speaking of "white privilege..." 
Following the attack documented above, police wrestled the black protester to the ground while his white assailant blithely returned his seat, cheering The Churl made in his image and likeness.

"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image 
when it turns out God hates all the same people you do."
Tom Weston S. J.

Defending The Fascist Simian At Trump Rally: "Just A Little Poke On The Beak"

Trump Rally Violence And Its Normalization Are Unprecedented

CNN's Excellent Compilation Of Videos Probing Trump's Exacerbation Of Rally Violence


Shortly before the violence at Trump's Chicago rally, revered Republican strategist Frank Luntz predicted the imminent transition of pitched political emotions to manifest violence.

Renowned Republican Consultant Frank Luntz Says GOP Process Is "Poisonous," Fears Violence

Republican Consultant Frank Luntz And The GOP's Replacement Of Reason With Emotion


Trump's toxicity has been taken to a new level by self-righteous projection of all"responsibility" onto "others," going so far as to call Bernie Sanders a liar for denying that he sends followers to Trump rallies to cause disturbance.  

No doubt there are Sanders supporters who "crash" these events, but it is absurd to suggest Sanders sends them.  


 Best Pax Posts On Psychological Projection And "The Shadow"

Pax tecum (or, as my word-to-voice cellphone feature puts it: "Pox take him.")

 Alan

This correspondence is posted as "Trump, Rage, Violence And The Totemic Demotion Of White Americans." http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/trump-rage-violence-and-totemic.html

Follow-Up Correspondence with Fred Owens of Frog Hospital

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:

The white assailant is 78 years old! It's gonna be hard to turn him into a villain. I thought he packs quite a punch for such an old dude.   And the average 20 year old youth, regardless of race, probably deserves a good sock like that.
Diversity leads to tribalism. Tribalism leads to klan warfare. The emerging white tribe is going to be ferocious.
We should have stayed true to assimilation and integration, but we choose the multi-cultural path.
I'm thinking of the large Polish community in Chicago -- what a tribe they will be. I would stay out of their way.
Out in LaConner, the Swinomish tribe is far more powerful and wealthy than it had been. And the white tribal wannabes are flocking there for protection. That might work.
Hilary will try to bring us all together. I pray for that. I pray for unity and harmony.

Dear Fred,

Thanks for your email.

Except for underclass blacks and wagon-circled whites I think that multi-culturalism is much less multi-cultural in the ethnically-isolated sense than the Polish, Italian, German, Jewish, black and Hispanic "ghettoes" we grew up with.

I think most attacks on the alleged divisiveness of liberal multi-culturalists are psychological projections by white people whose cultural isolation is the most divisive and hermetically sealed segment of society.

At bottom, Laura needs to "get out more."

Pax tecum

Alan

PS I hope the 78 year old son of a bitch is convicted of a felony; receives a hefty sentence of community service; and as a convicted felon is publicly deprived of his 2nd Amendment rights.
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:
FROG HOSPITAL -- March 13, 2016 -- unsubscribe anytime
By Fred Owens
It was just like 1968, Trump people clashing with cops and demonstrators in Chicago. I was there in 1968. It was intense, violent and chaotic, but we got through it and we are still here. This thing right now with Trump -- we can survive it as well.
I have read many explanations of why Trump is so popular. None of these explanations make any sense. So I can save you some trouble here at Frog Hospital and say, honestly, that I Don't Know.
I Don't Know. It would be refreshing to hear our leadership say I Don't Know.  Imagine Bernie or Hillary saying that. Or saying, "I have to admit I'm stumped."  A leader with that much honesty would inspire me.  Does every problem have a solution? Does every question have an answer? Does every disease have a cure? We can be confident about the future without trying to be 100% certified and certain.

 City of Jasmine.  I hired a Los Angeles artist to give me a custom paint job on my black 2004 Nissan Sentra. With some hours of brushwork she made it bold and powerful. So now I'm driving down the freeway and I get more respect. This is California and your car is who you are, and now I get that respect.
The artist lives just to the east side of downtown. This is not East LA, which is major Chicano country and I never go there, but this is the East Side, and if you think neighborhoods don't have identities in LA you are wrong. The artist lives in the Highland Park neighborhood on the East Side and if she is not careful she will get rent-blasted and gentrified right over to Boyle's Landing down by Long Beach.
I made up that last part, about Boyle's Landing, there is no such a place. Lately I am having trouble keeping my imagination in check.
But I do not make up the custom paint job. The artist, a woman of burgeoning renown, painted her own car with portraits of her students. It is a compelling gallery of eager young faces, done in black and white on the side and roof and hood of her Volvo.
I decided I wanted that for my car, not the portraits of course, but flowers. I've been involved in flowers for my working life -- flower farms and rose gardens, commercial and residential. It's hard work, but it's rewarding. I wanted people to know who I am. And in California you do that with your car.
Now my car has flowers all over it -- the blue and red of the passion flower says I am passionate. I am.

 The sweet scent of the the jasmine says I am from Damascus in a past life. Damascus -- you should know this, but since you don't, I will tell you -- Damascus is pronounced Dimashk in Arabic and has the nickname of Medina Al-Yasmeen, which means City of Jasmine.
Imagine that -- this war-torn ancient city was once overflowing with flowers and gardens. Someday, when the war is over, I will go for a visit. In the meantime, the jasmine vine and flowers are painted on the hood of my car, because that is who I am.
The artist made it beautiful, and I will share her contact information if you request it.
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 Cosmo is Dying. I was in Los Angeles for two days. I spent some of that time at Abbot's Habit coffee shop in Venice Beach. This where the old men gather, since before the hipsters and the fashionistas took over on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. You should see them -- the young men wearing sneakers that cost $500, the young women impossibly tall and beautiful... and Google millionaires in hoodies and ragged jeans trying to look like everybody else... and homeless people trying to look like Google millionaires.
But we were there first, us old guys, so we get enough respect. I sat with Eric  and Big Mike, both originally from the Bronx, out here since the fifties. I call Eric the Godfather because he has been here the longest. He's older than the Pope, made a fortune in real estate, wears a $2 hat. Young people come and sit with him for a moment or two, he says a few words and then they leave.
Big Mike lives on the others side of Lincoln where the streets are wider and the lots are bigger. Big Mike has a substantial garden and several abundant peach trees. He brags about it, but it's true -- he gets a lot of fruit.
Evan comes in late every day, from work. He has a remodeling business. He gets his coffee and says hello, then he takes a seat outside.

Cosmo never sits with us. Nobody likes him. I don't like him, and not Eric, and not Big Mike. Evan might put in a good word for Cosmo, but nobody else likes him. 
Cosmo is short and stout and bald. He talks all the time. He blames everybody for everything. People have screwed him over. He got a raw deal. Woman dump on him. He sees life is not pretty.
Then he got pancreatic cancer and you didn't see him at the cafe every day. He was gone. The thing is that he was always at the cafe. We didn't like him, but we were awful used to him being there. So we kind of liked him as long as he didn't try to sit with us. You know what I'm saying.
So Cosmo doesn't come to the cafe now and with the pancreatic cancer he won't last long. That was his life. He was really just as good as the rest of us.
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