tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post3072053719783682394..comments2024-03-28T15:48:11.151-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: WHAT DO I KNOW?Robert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-63685608889189953532016-11-30T12:15:09.407-05:002016-11-30T12:15:09.407-05:00[although I do not actually know what one feeds ch...[although I do not actually know what one feeds chickens.] <br /><br />One food that chickens love is cracked corn, but what chickens eat and what chickens *should* eat are not always the same thing. I am especially concerned about all of the people feeding their hens mealworms.Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11915977609430813824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-54475736582094492252016-11-29T14:26:31.564-05:002016-11-29T14:26:31.564-05:00All of us who participate in this blog follow poli...All of us who participate in this blog follow politics very closely (I follow politics in both Chile and the U.S.) and probably vote very rationally after considering all the alternatives and the possible consequences of our votes.<br /><br />We often assume that others think about politics in the same way, especially because we have friends who talk about politics all day (at least in my case, politics is the only "normal" subject I talk about, since I don't watch TV, follow sports, have a car, have a normal family life, follow fashion, have a smartphone, listen to pop music, etc.) and thus, many of us move in a world where politics is the currency of normal human interaction. <br /><br />In reality, there are people who don't read a newspaper (online or off), don't bother to watch TV news or news on the radio and have only the vaguest idea of the political issues of the day. As I said above, I don't talk much to them, except maybe when I get a haircut every 4 months and then to avoid an aggression with the scissors, I tend to say "yes" to political statements I consider to be nonsense or even fascist. <br /><br />Everyone I know in the U.S. (I'm in contact with them by email) voted for Sanders in the primaries (except a few family members who voted for Hillary) and everyone I know voted for Hillary in the general election, except one old friend who voted for Jill Stein (in California). s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-155139510756274162016-11-29T13:34:11.675-05:002016-11-29T13:34:11.675-05:00Here is a little more empirical data (n=60).
NYT ...Here is a little more empirical data (n=60).<br /><br />NYT Book Review (text):<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/books/review/strangers-in-their-own-land-arlie-russell-hochschild.html<br /><br />Two Part Interview on Democracy Now (transcript and video):<br />https://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/28/what_drives_trump_supporters_sociologist_arlie<br /><br />https://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/28/arlie_russell_hochschild_on_strangers_in<br /><br />Interview by Nader (audio):<br />https://ralphnaderradiohour.com/inside-the-mind-of-a-trump-voter/Briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-70074753013893609702016-11-29T12:44:13.683-05:002016-11-29T12:44:13.683-05:00Bob, you're right, we don't know what we&#...Bob, you're right, we don't know what we're talking about when we speculate. <br /><br />I have some empirical data (n=4). Two people at our Thanksgiving table voted for Trump. One voted for him because her husband did. She is not a bigot, had a black boyfriend (she's white) and two women lovers before getting married to her husband. He voted for Trump because a) he always votes Republican and b) he thinks Trump's wilder statements are just his "going-in" position from which he will negotiate down. Friends also had two Trump voters at their table. They both despise "the establishment," a group which they say includes the media. They therefore like the fact that Trump tweets, because we get his opinions "unfiltered by the media." As a sometime writer, I gotta say, you couldn't write this sh*t. More to the point, none of these 4 neatly fits the categories we've all been throwing around. Well, maybe the distrustful, anti-establishment couple. My humbler self says, people are weirdly complex, and our so-called punditry is often just a cover for the fact that we're all trying desperately to get a handle on this so we don't feel like we've fallen into chaos.Tom Cathcarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16136970056480275148noreply@blogger.com