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| TRUMP: Even manages to intrude on family |
WHEN
LEARNING THAT Trump on Tuesday is trying to oversimplify the whole situation as
one of people not coming to this country “legally” (he said, “Don’t come to our
country illegally. It’s not a good thing”) shows that it’s not just the Twitter
version of Trump that is a nit wit.
But
I also don’t doubt the kind of people who are enjoying this Age of Trump we’re
now in aren’t the least bit offended. In fact, I suspect they view the upcoming
political battle we’re going to engage in over Supreme Court control as an
effort to cement such attitudes in place.
I
suspect many of them, “don’t give a damn” either.
It
was this past Saturday, around the same time that protesters trying to tie up
traffic on the Dan Ryan Expressway were finishing their efforts, that I was at
my aunt’s house.
SHE
HAS AN annual gathering the weekend after Independence Day which often becomes
the only time I see certain cousins of mine.
Sure
enough, politics tainted much of the weekend conversation. I particularly noted
(they were loud enough to be overheard in the next room) one conversation
between a cousin whose labor union membership puts him on the “liberal” side of
the equation and another cousin (who recently was able to retire early with a
retirement plan that means he’ll be able to survive financially without having
to work anymore) taking up (as he always does) the conservative side of the
equation.
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| Is THIS Trump's ideal of 'America' great again? |
Tempers
became heated. People were being mocked mercilessly. And when “Cousin Jimmy”
wound up giving me a ride home following the occasion, he insisted on giving me
his rebuttal to much of the argument that had taken place.
Where
Jimmy basically gave me his line of logic for approving of the Age of Trump –
we ought to focus on economic issues, with everything else that gets discussed
is pretty much irrelevant.
AS
THINGS TURNED out, my cousin got a payout of just over $1 million. Although his
finances are living proof that being a “millionaire” isn’t worth what people
would dream it to be.
Basically,
he leaves that money to sit, and has to count on the interest for income to
survive. Which has him watching the Trump presidency for signs that he does
things stupid enough that they upset the financial markets. Things that could
cause his interest payments to decline.
Getting
worked up over other issues? Cousin Jimmy is pretty much like Trump on the
controversy of families being split, with children being seized from their
parents and officials admitting they aren’t going to be able to meet any
court-ordered deadlines for returning children to their parents.
Particularly
those kids whose parents were already deported from the United States, or those
who ultimately were released into the general population and we really don’t
know where they are right now.
IT’S
NOT IMPACTING their “bottom line,” so it’s not going to bother them. Just like
Rhett didn’t care about Scarlet – although it should be conceded that Scarlet
had pulled so much nonsense throughout that film it’s a wonder he didn’t smack
her silly!
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| DELILAH: Will she have to fix our mess? |
You
might be wondering where I was in all this family squabbling. I made a point of
staying in the other room – largely because it had a particularly cool breeze
passing through that made it the most comfortable room in the house to be in.
But
also because another of my cousins brought her daughter and 1-year-old
granddaughter along. Personally, I find myself engaged in too much political
rhetoric during the week to the point where I found baby Delilah to be far more
interesting than any of the adults whose babbling was inane.
Although
I also found my own thoughts turning to her; for it’s going to be she and her
generation that winds up having to cope with the impact of all the nonsense our
ideological rants are causing these days.
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