Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First - Episode 280/6 Things People should Care Less About - Donald Trump
Thursday 21st June 2018
Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First
Hello and welcome to
#MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 280
Title: 6 Things People should Care Less About - Donald Trump
In this series of the 6
Things People Should Care Less About, we have considered
3. Steroids
And today we are
considering
6. TRUMP
Alright, I’m ready for the
hate mail. Let’s do this…
I think the most contentious position
one can have in the US right now is that Trump isn’t really that big of a deal.
That’s because most people
on the left think he’s the second coming of Hitler/Stalin/Satan/Apollo Creed
and is going to start World War 3.
And most people on the
right think he’s America’s savior who is going to “fix” everything and we’re
all going to party like it’s 1959.
I think he is neither.
The right is wrong because
it’s clear that he’s a shitty, ineffective, and needlessly controversial
president.
The left is wrong because
they forget that US history is full of shitty, ineffective,
needlessly controversial presidents. And you know what happened
to most of them?
Nothing.
That’s right. A big ol’
nothing-burger.
The US system is incredibly
complex and robust.
The President’s power is
overrated.
In fact, the Presidency is
only a recent obsession (in the era of reality TV and sound bites).
The President always gets
credit for things he didn’t do and always gets blamed for things he didn’t fuck
up.
Look, even competent and
popular Presidents have trouble getting their agenda done.
Trump is not competent,
nor is he popular.
He’s a nothing-burger
(cooked well done and with lots of ketchup).
Even smart and successful
Presidents struggle to enact their foreign policy goals.
They are hamstrung by
large bureaucracies, Congress, the legal system, and the international order.
And here you have a guy
who probably thinks Frederick Douglas is an NBA player for the Knicks.
The US system requires the
effort of hundreds if not thousands of people to move it.
The President is supposed
to be the one to corral them. But Trump can’t even corral his own wife to
spend more than a few hours with him, so what exactly are we freaking out
about?
Look, I know Trump is a
piece of shit. I know he’s hurt a lot of people. But on a societal/national
policy level, he’s nothing that the US system hasn’t seen or survived before.
So let’s calm our shit on the armageddon/Hitler talk. Life will go on.
Trump is possibly the
biggest example of the Kardashian Rule to date.
The same way Kim
Kardashian seems successful
because she gets so much attention, Trump seems evil
because he pisses you off so much. But the fact is that neither is true.
Trump isn’t that evil.
He’s a bumbling narcissist
who thinks life is one never-ending competition for TV ratings.
And as with Kardashian or
school shootings, the more attention we shovel in his direction, the more
empowered he becomes, and the more we encourage other politicians to follow in
his footsteps.
People are always
complaining that he should delete his Twitter account, but how about this: stop
reading it! Stop clicking on articles about shit he tweeted. Stop watching news
segments about shit he tweeted. You don’t just vote with your ballot every four
years, in 2018, you vote with your attention as well.
This is how we change the
narrative direction of the country. Not by stamping our feet and demanding this
guy who has been an asshat for 70 years suddenly change himself. That’s not
going to happen.
A lot is made about
#Resistance and all that, and look, I get it. It’s good to stand up to a
shithead bully in the opposing party. Anything that gives the Democrats a
semblance of a backbone is probably needed.
But there’s some
responsibility on us, as a population as well — namely, our consumption habits.
If we’re unhappy with our
celebrities, politicians and leaders, in the end, we’re the ones who created
them.
So what does that say
about us?
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Written By Mark Manson
Source: Mark Manson
Thanks for the write up. Some of us waste the time we are expected to be productive with and end up usinh8it to CRITICISE, COMPLAIN AND CONDEMN me Trump. I see nothing wrong with what he is doing, I just have the feeling he will fix US, it may not be now, but definitely he will. Personal opinion though....
ReplyDeleteAll the same, thanks Dr. Jerry 're first
Oh yes Ebuka
DeleteThanks for bringing this to the fore
Humanity is meant to live that way, find fault with everything they can not discern and most times they have been proven wrong.
Every system is robust and corrects itself from within. It's even much more so in the developed Countries of which the United States is the Leader
It shall be well