tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post6786426992523040306..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Looking for a Team That FitsFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-34906561930073694262016-11-15T21:57:35.034-06:002016-11-15T21:57:35.034-06:00Noted the Krystallnacht connection myself. Missed ...Noted the Krystallnacht connection myself. Missed the Berlin Wall. So some historical glimmer of good...Binknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-89326987943643660642016-11-13T16:50:26.773-06:002016-11-13T16:50:26.773-06:00SPARKER: I'll e-mail you a report!
LAURA: Yes...SPARKER: I'll e-mail you a report!<br /><br />LAURA: Yes, alas, I agree, of course---sadly the world view of soooo many Trump supporters is problematic, to say the least.<br />As I'd blogged a couple days ago, I worry that Trump & Co. have released a dangerous energy---a dangerous genie---the bad stuff in Pandora's box!<br /><br />Curious thing about 11/9:<br />as you know, it is the date of Krystallnacht in Germany,<br />but also the date the Berlin Wall came down fifty years later...<br />We are a crazy species.<br />--FrescaFrexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191192404386975664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-32350368357045247012016-11-13T09:28:15.395-06:002016-11-13T09:28:15.395-06:00Unfortunately, I do still believe the trump voters...Unfortunately, I do still believe the trump voters are dumb, or naive, or self-delusional. I see little evidence of the downtrodden, out-of-work, economically challenged people being left behind by manufacturing jobs moving overseas. What I see & hear about are mean-spirited people, like the two guys who beat a hispanic woman walking across campus speaking spanish on her phone with her parents about her exam the next day- being told by her assailants that she isn't welcome here now that trump is elected...<br />or my relatives: upper middle-class, all employed, all comfortably off, actually saved by Obama bailing out the american auto industry- not blue collar workers but engineers for Ford- who say they just "want americans to have to speak english and act like americans". Ironically, the most virulent one was born in germany and his mother here still speaks somewhat broken english. Just like trump's wife. Which makes me think the problem they have is not the language, but the skin tone color.<br />An interesting point I have not seen elsewhere, but pointed out by a fellow woman artist the other night- when I said the impact of this was such that I thought people would still remember in ten years this week, and how they felt at the news, and what they did- like 9/11 or JFK being assassinated or the bridge collapse, etc- she said yes, that was 9/11, this was 11/9.Laura Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529766051109192382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-45566340491906974042016-11-12T11:44:07.502-06:002016-11-12T11:44:07.502-06:00It's good to know your neighbors, my neighborh...It's good to know your neighbors, my neighborhood is great for that. Looking forward to hearing about it if you post -ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.com