For the Readers and Thinkers

[Peter1469]

I realize many have had enough of Trump. He was a failure in so many ways except for the growth of divisiveness and hate. His cult members remain and his big lie still motivates the easily led. First link is a video I watched on Prime, worth your time as it is a lesson in psychology and mental health. The books cover both media and Trump's background history. If you want to learn read.

#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump

https://unfitfilm.com/

Readings:


'Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America'

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...in-plain-sight

'Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth'

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53345186-hoax


'The Making of Donald Trump' by David Cay Johnston

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...f-donald-trump

[hanger4]

I realize many have had enough of Trump. He was a failure in so many ways except for the growth of divisiveness and hate. His cult members remain and his big lie still motivates the easily led. First link is a video I watched on Prime, worth your time as it is a lesson in psychology and mental health. The books cover both media and Trump's background history. If you want to learn read.

#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump

https://unfitfilm.com/

Readings:


'Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America'

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...in-plain-sight

'Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth'

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53345186-hoax


'The Making of Donald Trump' by David Cay Johnston

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...f-donald-trump

It's apparent your definition of failure is a failure.

Now you can run away midcan5, it's what you do so well.

[midcan5]

"We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom." IW

I am finally back to this history after reading 'Hoax' Which covers Fox v Trump. I recommend both. Wilkerson's book is deep, it reminds me of James Baldwin's work. Race is a myth but caste is a reality. Read it. I want also to post this link in a comment I made yesterday.


"Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things."


'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents' Isabel Wilkerson

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51152447-caste

"Slavery was not merely an unfortunate thing that happened to black people. It was an American innovation, an American institution created by and for the benefit of the elites of the dominant caste and enforced by poorer members of the dominant caste who tied their lot to the caste system rather than to their consciences."

"If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?" Taylor Branch

[hanger4]

"We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom." IW

I am finally back to this history after reading 'Hoax' Which covers Fox v Trump. I recommend both. Wilkerson's book is deep, it reminds me of James Baldwin's work. Race is a myth but caste is a reality. Read it. I want also to post this link in a comment I made yesterday.


"Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things."


'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents' Isabel Wilkerson

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51152447-caste

"Slavery was not merely an unfortunate thing that happened to black people. It was an American innovation, an American institution created by and for the benefit of the elites of the dominant caste and enforced by poorer members of the dominant caste who tied their lot to the caste system rather than to their consciences."

"If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?" Taylor Branch

I believe I'll skip the reading of an author that ignores slavery from the beginning of recorded history and calls it an "American innovation".

Now it's time to run away midcan5, it's what you do so well.

[Peter1469]

I believe I'll skip the reading of an author that ignores slavery from the beginning of recorded history and calls it an "American innovation".

Now it's time to run away midcan5, it's what you do so well.

Mid may read a lot, but he certainly is not a thinker.

Slavery was common for most of humanity time here on earth.

[Tahuyaman]

Conservative and libertarian snowflakes beware, you may be forced think and that is unknown territory.

"If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief." Franz Kafka

Understand America today:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...lyover-country
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...their-own-land
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nvisible-hands
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...their-own-land
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...33-white-trash
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...f-donald-trump
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...hants-of-doubt
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...o-hack-america
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...ic_of_Reaction

Psychology

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ouse_of_cards_
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ncertain_World


Racism

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26073085-white-rage
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-the-beginning
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ing-up-our-own
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...istle-politics


"Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it." Don King


Interesting and Deep

'Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle' by Daniel L. Everett
'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers' by Robert M. Sapolsky
'Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by J. D. Vance
'One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway - and Its Aftermath' by Seierstad, Åsne and Sarah Death
'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century' by Timothy Snyder

"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." David Bailey

Note: I didn't see a book thread although I recall one? Anyway if you have read any of the above comments welcome.

This is actually a reading list for people who only respect one point of view. That doesn't promote thinking.

[Abby08]

So, if Trump is considered to have been a failure, WTH, does midcan call what is currently taking place?

I can't believe American citizens are actually applauding the demise of this country and, the people who are killing it.

[carolina73]

So, if Trump is considered to have been a failure, WTH, does midcan call what is currently taking place?

I can't believe American citizens are actually applauding the demise of this country and, the people who are killing it.

To Midcan, the demise of of our Republic is success.

[Abby08]

To Midcan, the demise of of our Republic is success.

Yeah, because he doesn't expect the blowback to effect him in any way.

That's how dumb these people are....."we can do socialism correctly!"

Yeah........they'll all be right there in the life raft with us.

[The Booman]

I realize many have had enough of Trump. He was a failure in so many ways except for the growth of divisiveness and hate. His cult members remain and his big lie still motivates the easily led. First link is a video I watched on Prime, worth your time as it is a lesson in psychology and mental health. The books cover both media and Trump's background history. If you want to learn read.

#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump

https://unfitfilm.com/

Readings:


'Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America'

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...in-plain-sight

'Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth'

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53345186-hoax


'The Making of Donald Trump' by David Cay Johnston

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...f-donald-trump

LOL

Midcan pretends he reads.