You edited your question.
Back to the OP…I recently moved to an area where I know there are tons of trumpsters based on the yard signs, bumper stickers, etc. BUT, and this goes to your point, in my everyday dealings with folks I’ve found them totally friendly, helpful, kind, etc. Leave politics and religion out of things and I truly believe most people want to just live and let live, even if we don’t agree.
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I like talking politics and religion, but it shouldn’t be forced on anyone. Just like it would be rude to get someone to talk about their weird boyfriend, or troubled kid, or their medical problems
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None were questions. They are my conclusions apriori from your statements
I tend to get along with many because I don’t try to badger someone into “seeing my way” whether it is politics, Religion, UFOs, or eating meat.
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Camus was writing and speaking after WWII, a time that the world was hoping that fascism could be defeated, or had been defeated. One of the major missing pieces in Western (white) philosophy was the discussion of how slavery, something seemingly left behind generations before was still having an effect even where it was illegal. But, I’m trying to keep this from going too long. So…
The idea that we could not let another “Hitler” gain power became part of history lessons for me as a kid in public school in the 1960s. These lessons usually began after he had already won his election. There was something in those lessons about prejudice, but it wasn’t real clear. Now there are museums, but even those start with the newspaper cartoons of people with big noses who have control over banks and other myths.
Now that I’ve seen it happen again, with a new name, I think we missed what Camus was trying to tell us, or maybe he didn’t know. I think Reagan, Limbaugh, Gingrich, and then Trump spoke to people’s pain, just like Hitler did, to the pain Germans suffered after WWI. It’s not a question of that pain being legitimate, of requiring a remedy that others should pay for, what’s important is someone listened. Those someones said they would fix it, and they got votes, they got power.
When I tell my Leftist friends that they need to listen to conservatives, they tell me they are tired of that. They tell me they heard it all, and then they list the things they know about them. I can get a conservative cranked up and they’ll list all the things they know about libs too. Either way, they aren’t listening. I’m not asking anyone to agree, or to start up a program to help a middle-aged man in West Virginia feel like he is valuable. I’m just asking people to listen because everyone deserves to be heard.
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