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Originally Posted by MIKEMCKEE
Thought provoking Dissertation
by Pam Geller
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When my mother turned 95, things became difficult. 95% blind and all her friends dead, she listened to the news and heard of murders, avalanches and war. She heard politicians. She was frightened, as elderly lonely people can be. I had some difficulty balancing the picture for her: I did in fact feel quite safe walking the streets, my daughter was not on drugs yet, they did not teach Islam in our schools and no, the Neo-Nazis in Germany did not have great support in that population. Mother gave out all the signs of anticipating Armageddon, and all I could do was reassure her that she may in a better place before it caught up with us.
Mother was a shining tower of rationality compared to the fevered, paranoid ramblings of Pam Geller. “Professionally, I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied history all my life.” After all that, this is the closest she came to analyzing it?
Now, I consider myself eclectic not given to fanaticism, and this is what I do not get: In January, a President left his country in a calamitous state very few had dreamt possible. This is not so much a matter of opinion; the facts roll in each morning as the share market opens. A new administration is some 3 months into the job of finding ways out of this mess, obviously seeking a different direction to the one that so visibly bombed. But who is Pam Geller and friends afraid of? The new broom! Now, I don’t claim to know or even believe that the new guys will get it right, I am not given to believing in promises either. So, the jury is out on that one.
But we have, as I said, been through 8 years that very few of us would choose to repeat. We are worried about the damage done; we are trying to figure out how not to fall into that trap again. We’re pretty sure on that score. Is Pam Geller concerned about that? Apparently not. With the headlights on certain banks and fund managers, her chosen Ayn Rand quote is a call for “
pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism.” We want more of that? Meanwhile, the new guy is not so subtly associated with Hitler. Amazing, that the “historian” Pam Geller knows so much about the person who has been at it for 3 months, and so staggering little about the last 8 years. Not that she exaggerates, of course.
"It is potentially 1929 x 10" ? - historians sure know to use sober language.
My mother was a sensible person, and only 95% blind.
From the Pam Geller / Ayn Rand site, as referred to: