2017 according to our betters
Dec. 28th, 2017 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chasovschikGoodbye 2017. And good riddance.
What a dumpster fire of a year, especially for those who reside and operate in the world of politics and policy. Who will mourn the passing of 2017?
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As the year comes to a close, the job of making sense of it begins.
This year, I heard so many people ask, "Is this really happening?" It felt at times as if we were living in an alternate reality. There's no denying that 2017 was both bizarre and a rallying of all sorts. The question is, who will be left standing when the rally is over?
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Grit your teeth. Persevere. Just a few more days and this awful, rotten, no-good, ridiculous, rancorous, sordid, disgraceful year in the civic life of our nation will be over. Here's hoping that we all -- particularly special counsel Robert Mueller -- have a better 2018.
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Alas, I confess to having difficulty finding much positivity to cling to this year, because as far as the state of the American union is concerned, I have never seen anything as bad as 2017.
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War, climate change, and the return of fascist politics to the United States and Europe have all shown that the certainties of the 1990s were not certainties at all. Neither Hitler nor the Paris Peace Agreement changed our world permanently. Donald Trump is the president and the future feels canceled. How do we escape, now? In 2017 the monsters of our nightmares stepped into the daylight, and in response we turned to a new version of the real.
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Читал бы такое и читал, эх. Отличный был год, короче говоря. Жалко только, что "и это пройдет".
What a dumpster fire of a year, especially for those who reside and operate in the world of politics and policy. Who will mourn the passing of 2017?
---
As the year comes to a close, the job of making sense of it begins.
This year, I heard so many people ask, "Is this really happening?" It felt at times as if we were living in an alternate reality. There's no denying that 2017 was both bizarre and a rallying of all sorts. The question is, who will be left standing when the rally is over?
---
Grit your teeth. Persevere. Just a few more days and this awful, rotten, no-good, ridiculous, rancorous, sordid, disgraceful year in the civic life of our nation will be over. Here's hoping that we all -- particularly special counsel Robert Mueller -- have a better 2018.
---
Alas, I confess to having difficulty finding much positivity to cling to this year, because as far as the state of the American union is concerned, I have never seen anything as bad as 2017.
---
War, climate change, and the return of fascist politics to the United States and Europe have all shown that the certainties of the 1990s were not certainties at all. Neither Hitler nor the Paris Peace Agreement changed our world permanently. Donald Trump is the president and the future feels canceled. How do we escape, now? In 2017 the monsters of our nightmares stepped into the daylight, and in response we turned to a new version of the real.
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Читал бы такое и читал, эх. Отличный был год, короче говоря. Жалко только, что "и это пройдет".
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Date: 2017-12-28 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-28 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-28 04:31 pm (UTC)бендяжки. облилиьс соплями опять, хотя вроде уже ничего нового нету.
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Date: 2017-12-28 04:59 pm (UTC)причем психологи в данном случае не помочь, а часть проблемы
вот один психолог писал, жаловался, что не знает, что делать: "Вот раньше приходит ко мне пациент, жалуется, что боится, что прилетят инопланетяне и его заберут, я его успокаиваю, что нет, не бойся, не прилетят, а теперь приходит и говорит, что боится, что придет Трамп и разбомбит его дом со всей семьей (это не шутка, Гомберг - реальный пример), и я не знаю, что сказать, потому что это ПРАВДА"
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Date: 2017-12-28 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-28 05:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-28 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-28 05:45 pm (UTC)а Трамп может и менят каждый день
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Date: 2017-12-28 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-28 05:47 pm (UTC)в 2018 республиканцы проиграют, и в конце 2018 демократы будут этот год с удовольствием вспоминать
т.е. и вы правы, "Отличный был год, короче говоря. Жалко только, что "и это пройдет"."
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Date: 2017-12-28 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-28 06:28 pm (UTC)https://www.npr.org/2017/12/28/573812678/trump-accomplished-a-lot-in-2017-but-at-what-cost
Может на них так подействовала борьба с харрасментом?
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Date: 2017-12-28 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-28 10:58 pm (UTC)хорошо бы все либералы с TDS это прочли, но ведь не прочтут, а если и прочтут - не поверят...
про остальное левые могут сказать, что да, выполнил обещания, как навредить Америке, своими судьями или отменами регуляций, а про это затруднительно
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Date: 2017-12-29 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-29 02:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-29 03:35 pm (UTC)Кроме того, как дизайнер дизайнеру - они там really оторвались с безбрежным использованием красного цвета. Я совершенно протащился. :)
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Date: 2017-12-29 03:36 pm (UTC)