Garrison Keillor and the Trumpists (aka the great unwashed)
http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/ As a person who doesn’t understand a lot about America, I have been trying to keep away from the events of this unfortunate (for America) year. And I wouldn’t even mention the results of that drama/tragicomedy. Some good people told me off and I shall heed their advice, given in a friendly way.
However, many questions remain and even accumulate. This post was triggered (yes, I know) by an innocent enough occasion. Reading a book Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor, which book is, in fact, a collection of his “it’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon” monologues, which I loved – terminally and unconditionally – from the first listening occasion, back then in 199… If somebody requires a list of things/people that make America great, I thought since, Garrison Keillor should definitely be on it.
Reading one of these, I got curious about something in Keillor’s biography, so googling for Garrison Keillor was a natural, if not very well considered at these mad times (as I know now), action. Well, I should have considered that action a bit more carefully, because what I got first was this:
Garrison Keillor: Done. Over. He’s here. Goodbye.
Part of the article is a somewhat natural (for a liberal* and a Democrat) horror at the elections result. It repeats many other missives I happened to stumble upon (not really seeking all that, believe you me). So I wouldn’t expand on this part. What really hit me was the general air of derision, condescension and alienation of/toward these same people whom, as a whole, Keillor used to describe with love and understanding all these years. Now he is designating them “Trumpists”, which could have been fine with me, if only it was the only view he enforces on the reader.
But no, it gets worse. The “we” versus “them” melody grows stronger with each line in this piece. And it doesn’t take long to understand who are “we”, the definition is unequivocal: “we liberal elitists”. As to “them”, it becomes exceedingly clear too, when you see this at the end of the article: “Let the uneducated have their day”.
Wow. So the first question will be: does anyone expect to close the rift(s) in American society, espousing this attitude?
And the second question: how about these liberal elitists (see the clip below)?
(*) No, not a liberal in the “pinko commie” sense many Americans use this word today, rather a classic liberal. Or so I thought. Till now, that is. http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/
Source: http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/2016/11/garrison-keillor-and-trumpists-aka.html
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