Perception is more important than reality for some people.
I’ll admit I’ve had a sense of doom for some time now. It’s not because I’m naturally unhappy, but I see so much better now where it is the country is heading.
How can the national debt not matter? How can cultural decline not matter? How can the bankruptcy and ruin of a once-great city not matter?
If these people are happy, it’s because they’re ignorant of what is to come.
“Perception is more important than reality for some people.”
Our fake president is all perception; he is nothing.
“How can the national debt not matter?”
When I was younger this was an abstract concept; I thought Obama would lose in 2012 because the inflation linked to the national debt came quickly (everybody could see it right away in groceries and gasoline). The media somehow convinced people it wasn’t important, so it apparently played no role in the election.
“How can cultural decline not matter?”
This was settled 20 years ago, when a known womanizer was elected president.
“If these people are happy, it’s because they’re ignorant of what is to come.”
That’s right; they also have no idea how much of the future has these two groups pitted against each other.