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White trash: He and she are our neighbors and fellow citizens, and their inability to make a decent living in this town is due to attitudes and policies far outside their control.
One thing is clear. Our humble Internet publication has attracted trolls and propagandists from afar, who seriously want to turn us on to their twisted worldview.
Orange Alert, an occasional (perhaps daily, perhaps more than daily, as necessary to keep up) feature, translating the president elect’s pronouncements. Today: Trump's response to Russian hacking, interference with U.S. election.
If this feels distressing and repugnant, remember that for decades the U.S. surreptitiously meddled in regime support and change in sovereign nations around the world.
We must now find ways to live through this interval where yet another Republican rich-kid brat has dramatically lowered the bar and thereby won the game. Without winning the vote. (Why must we call it "popular?" The vote is the vote.)
For a moment, I felt it was the 60s again, and I was back marching against the Vietnam War. I felt exhilarated, but I knew I would feel let down a few hours later.
In his letter to the editor, Matt Whalan writes: “If you are afraid, calm down. You are not trapped. We are not stuck with Trump. Trump is stuck with us.”
In his letter to the editor, Robert Connors writes: “I think that as a nation, we are slowly witnessing a simultaneous undercurrent of a Phoenix-like rebirth.”
The overwhelming and widely recognized anxiety that we seem to share in the perpetual run up to this election is that both candidates cast shadows over the entire political soul of our nation.
In his letter to the editor, Tom Sirois of Stockbridge writes: "At this time, I am NOT voting for either mainstream candidates because by doing so, I am endorsing the way our government is run."
In her letter to the editor, Nicki Wilson writes: "Hillary Clinton has a plan whereby the current student loan debt could be refinanced at the current rates available for students taking out new loans. Donald Trump has no real Student Loan Plan."
Bigoted, mean-spirited men of business have always believed in their God-given right to rule the world they control. Seeing this play again, now, in this season of our political year, is a hysterically funny yet chilling experience.
