Posted on 06/09/2016 9:08:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Stephen King is considered something of an expert when it comes to horror, but it seems that, for the author of It, nothing is scarier than Donald Trump.
Except for maybe his supporters.
In an interview with the Rolling Stone, King was candidly political, expressing dismay over the rise of Trump, as well as disappointment in the electorate that catapulted the former reality television star and real estate mogul into the Republican candidacy for president.
““I am very disappointed in the country. I think that he’s sort of the last stand of a sort of American male who feels like women have gotten out of their place and they’re letting in all these people that have the wrong skin colors. He speaks to those people. Trump is extremely popular because people would like to have a world where you just didn’t question that the white American was at the top of the pecking order.”(continued)
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Elvis was smart. He knew his job was to shaddup and sing. so that is what he did and nobody was offended. everyone bought his records
Stephen King is supposed to be smarter than this. I knew he was a liberal but up til now hed not crossed the line with me. Ill not buy a SK book ever again.
its not enough for his ego that millions of people buy his books and love his talent for writing. just like so many Hollywood egos, now hes got to try to convince us straight up that the presidential candidate we like is dangerous.
that insults me. granted he might bring in new liberal readers faster than hes losing people like me. but it didnt work out that way for Alec Baldwin or Sean Penn or The Dixie Chicks.
thats the extended version of “ah shaddup, King” for those who needed it. Breathlessly awaiting your wise response.
Stephen King is irrelevant.
Pic sums up this thread nicely. Well done!
What a strange little insignificant boy he has become. He is clearly regressing into some kind of mentally diseased state. How sad.
With early success as a fiction writer, King was insulated financially against the unpleasant facts and hard edges of life that commonly generate the maturing experiences that disabuse most young people of doctrinaire Leftism and put many on the way to becoming conservatives. Once King's writing began earning a lush income, he was like one of those trust fund kids who rarely have to do much of anything that they do not want to do or to have to rethink their beliefs based on experience.
Fiction writing has its annoyances, but it rarely requires standing at a register all day dealing with impatient people in line, or struggling to meet a business payroll, or trying to get a room of fidgety and bored kids to behave and pay attention to their classwork. Living apart from the common bumps and bruises of life is one the best ways to avoid becoming a conservative, conservatism being a philosophy that recognizes and builds on human experience.
Moreover, King's fictional world is largely of his own imagination. His genre of horror and the supernatural is by definition a departure from ordinary life. From what I have seen, writers with a range of genres or whose fiction is based on fact and experience are or tend to become conservatives, like Tom Clancy, Dean Koontz, Tom Wolfe, and James Ellroy.
Facts again, stubborn and sometimes cruel, are the foundation for conservatism. Is it any wonder that a successful writer of supernatural fiction is a liberal of an obnoxious sort?
One of the architects of the coarsening of American culture is offended. Aw, diddums.
Springheel Jerk.
Hey!
He couldn’t better a compost heap!
I avoid Stephen King stories like the plague. They are a vexation to the spirit and support vile dark thoughts in the Id.
Monsters from the Id are stroked by the putrid black phantasies of Stephen King, not Donald Trump.
Stephen King lives in a fantasy world, iow ;)
Stephen King is a wimp, always frightened. First, he was frightened of Teddy Cruz, now it is also Trump as well as his supporters. The most frightening image I can think of consists of B. Obama and Hillary. Now there is something that should send whimpering Stephen to hide in a closet.
Kim Coates, Stephen King, Marilyn Manson and Walton Goggins have abused Hispanic migrants, black prostitutes and others on their tv shows.
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