The sad and worrisome fact is that this Trumpist brand of racial exclusivism and racial exclusionism seems so normal to them. The threat of being excluded and the illusion of power by means of exclusion of 'others' has an irrational force on their choice-making. The vary narrow relationship circle into which they d…
The sad and worrisome fact is that this Trumpist brand of racial exclusivism and racial exclusionism seems so normal to them. The threat of being excluded and the illusion of power by means of exclusion of 'others' has an irrational force on their choice-making. The vary narrow relationship circle into which they draw themselves provides the illusions of self-protection and self-assertion.
All of this is social pathology based on learned if incorrect assumptions about surviving in a remorseless competitive anomic social environment.
It seems to me that it is important to remember two facts of living (or factual for me, anyway):
as kids we did not approach other kids nor our 'adult' community in this way but we did approach each other with an initial social mutuality;
as kids we questioned the need to exclude and to make enemies of others;
then, as kids we were 'put in our place' in ways that taught disrespect, contempt, mutual suspicion, and social marginalization.
My point, as I know you are aware, is that these adult Trumpists represent a genuine minority among minorities in America. They represent themselves as the 'most excluded', the most misunderstood and mis-treated of all Americans. They argue that they cannot survive and be fairly counted in in a society that is actively diverse, equitable in authoring and offering protections (for exercising personal responsibility) for all, and inclusive in respect of participation in all aspects of social living and civil society governance.
We can do well to not see our selves as 'opponents of'. We, though often among the silent majorities, constitute an humanist majority, in fact super-majority in America and in the world. We see the reality of cooperation by means of in and conscious use of the plural and democratic principles of constitutional American governance. Actively pursuing this reality is what, if we persist through time and conscious effort, effects a personal dispelling of prejudice by learning from the myriad benefits of personal experience of inclusive cooperation.
In all of my experiences, the more basic our reasons of mutual cooperation are, the more mutual benefit and security are the tangible and durable results.
So let's communicate the message of democratic cooperation, of social mutualism to the Harris et al campaign in order to inform it with Americans' experiences of the benefits and of the potential benefits to be achieved by means of them.
Again, thank you Qasim.
The sad and worrisome fact is that this Trumpist brand of racial exclusivism and racial exclusionism seems so normal to them. The threat of being excluded and the illusion of power by means of exclusion of 'others' has an irrational force on their choice-making. The vary narrow relationship circle into which they draw themselves provides the illusions of self-protection and self-assertion.
All of this is social pathology based on learned if incorrect assumptions about surviving in a remorseless competitive anomic social environment.
It seems to me that it is important to remember two facts of living (or factual for me, anyway):
as kids we did not approach other kids nor our 'adult' community in this way but we did approach each other with an initial social mutuality;
as kids we questioned the need to exclude and to make enemies of others;
then, as kids we were 'put in our place' in ways that taught disrespect, contempt, mutual suspicion, and social marginalization.
My point, as I know you are aware, is that these adult Trumpists represent a genuine minority among minorities in America. They represent themselves as the 'most excluded', the most misunderstood and mis-treated of all Americans. They argue that they cannot survive and be fairly counted in in a society that is actively diverse, equitable in authoring and offering protections (for exercising personal responsibility) for all, and inclusive in respect of participation in all aspects of social living and civil society governance.
We can do well to not see our selves as 'opponents of'. We, though often among the silent majorities, constitute an humanist majority, in fact super-majority in America and in the world. We see the reality of cooperation by means of in and conscious use of the plural and democratic principles of constitutional American governance. Actively pursuing this reality is what, if we persist through time and conscious effort, effects a personal dispelling of prejudice by learning from the myriad benefits of personal experience of inclusive cooperation.
In all of my experiences, the more basic our reasons of mutual cooperation are, the more mutual benefit and security are the tangible and durable results.
So let's communicate the message of democratic cooperation, of social mutualism to the Harris et al campaign in order to inform it with Americans' experiences of the benefits and of the potential benefits to be achieved by means of them.