Dear Dr. Dion,
If the following appears, self-righteous or arrogant, please let me know, you do not deserve that and I don’t need to post this to prove anything. My response is a projection of myself onto the title, not you. I am raw from the effects of Capitalism and certainly the Republicans.
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I did not mean to be dismissive, which I was, but I have a knee-jerk reactions to titles of articles, especially on Medium that are incorrect on their face, and in your case, where you literally said by definition, Republicans were victims of Trump, or whatever, given the context of the present time, which is how I took it. I did not read the article therefore. I stopped.
If, I thought, that you could not get the title correct or if it did reflect your article exactly, then why would I bother to read the article? This "Oh, you didn't read the article" thing, which is what another person wrote after I did the same thing to them, is not acceptable. The piece, including the title, has to work as a package or else the package is damaged goods. I am not supportive of clickbait.
The Republicans are victims of attitudes, on the whole, that basically stem from thinking that they are better than other people. They have the audacity to think that you can climb into someone else's body and protect their baby, but you can be sure that they wouldn't want the same treatment. Some are hypocrites.
Some are prejudical creeps based on this feeling of a White supremacy, which as you know is a logical fallacy. All it takes is one Black person, for example, to be better, whatever that means, than another White person and the theory goes out the window with the bathwater. I am sure you understand that every person is unique and therefore incomparable.
The idea of anti-gay marriage, which was another no brainer, actually went to the supreme court, I think, and therefore WTF? Treating anyone in the LGBTQIA+ community, in addition, as less than another person, is another insult to intelligence.
Reagan's Trickle Down economics, etc. are planned attacks against The People as a whole. We are all victims. The average Republicans, ignorant or what-have-you, as alluded to by Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas, who said that Republicans voted against their economic interests because of the sway of some of the hot button issues, I mentioned.
The psychology underlying their behavior is powerlessness. They are complaining about their loss of economic power. They believe that they deserve to be the best even though the reality of their worth relative to the Chinese, Afghanis, Japanese, Vietnamese, any number of other peoples, is that they are spoiled. This, of course, does not exclude me. I can see myself in this quagmire of incompetence. I have felt that way about myself as a creative since the beginning. And, so I think that Republicans are not victims, or maybe they are willing victims. I have a day job, which in my case is moot at the moment, and which I have done since I high school. It got me through stints in colleges and Universities, but I am mad at myself for not somehow performing a practical job instead of hoping and dreaming that my creative side might have a place in the world. I just got a link to this from a friend today, which explains my situation, but I take ownership: We Need to Treat Artists as Workers, Not Decorations.
Anyway, I just wanted to share this. I saw how you were being snide with your comment alluding to the fact I must not have read your piece. Frankly, I am exhausted by trickery, by anything more than what it appears to be. Blame it on the Republicans!
