Go back and predict a Trump victory? This guy was twenty years ahead of the crowd

"The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for--someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots....One thing that isvery likely tohappen is that the gains made in the past forty years byblack and brown Americans,and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion....All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet."

Richard Rorty
Achieving Our Country
1998

read in the New Yorker Tech Issue 11/28/2016

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency









Go back and predict a Trump victory? This guy was twenty years ahead of the crowd

Governor Romney

Governor Romney,

In my world, you have had a very soft life. I do not ignore the challenges your family has gone through, though I am ignorant of them. You have always had enough money. You have made your whole career about what to do with the extra money. You do not seem to be the least bit curious why someone would be so short of money. To you it is obvious: lazy, thoughtless people get less money than the working and planning do.

In my world, Governor Romney, you are a lost and desperate man, surrounded by wealthy people just as blind and just as scared. You lost my vote because you are a blind man telling me I can not see.

With sincere curiosity,

Douglas Whiting



Douglas Whiting
Discovery Learning Tutoring,
A California Institution for Learning
hardworkisfun@gmail.com
310 435 8477