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Nikolokolus

Nikolokolus

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http://reason.com/archives/2016/11/20/america-called-bullshit-on-saint-hillary
America Called Bullshit on the Cult of Clinton
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Trump supporters view their man as a leader "fused with the idea of the nation"? Perhaps some do, but at least they don't see him as "light itself." That's how Clinton was described in the subhead of a piece for Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter. "Maybe [Clinton] is more than a president," gushed writer Virginia Heffernan. "Maybe she is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself," Nothing this nutty has been said by any of Trump's media fanboys.

"Hillary is Athena," Heffernan continued, adding that "Hillary did everything right in this campaign… She cannot be faulted, criticized, or analyzed for even one more second."

That's a key cry of the Cult of Hillary (as it is among followers of L. Ron Hubbard or devotees of Christ): our gal is beyond criticism, beyond the sober and technical analysis of mere humans. Michael Moore, in his movie Trumpland, looked out at his audience and, with voice breaking, said: "Maybe Hillary could be our Pope Francis."

Or consider Kate McKinnon's post-election opening bit on SNL, in which she played Clinton as a pantsuited angel at a piano singing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," her voice almost cracking as she sang: "I told the truth, I didn't come to fool ya." Just imagine if some right-leaning Christian celeb (are there any?) had dolled up as Trump-as-godhead and sang praises to him. It would have been the source of East Coast mirth for years to come. But SNL's Hallelujah for Hillary was seen as perfectly normal.

As with all saints and prophets, all human manifestations of light itself, the problem is never with them, but with us. We mortals are not worthy of Hillary. "Hillary didn't fail us, we failed her," asserted a writer for the Guardian. The press, and by extension the rest of us, "crucified her," claimed someone at Bustle. We always do that to messiahs, assholes that we are.

And of course the light of Hillary had to be guarded against blasphemy. Truly did the Cult of Hillary seek to put her beyond "analysis for even one more second." All that stuff about her emails and Libya was pseudo-scandal, inventions of her aspiring slayers, they told us again and again and again.
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The Bright side for me is that I live in a small town, in a world that won't be wholly affected by much on the national scale. I stopped reading any national political stories the moment I realized Trump won, except for checking in here from time to time. I'll hear discussions about who is being appointed, and many I know are outraged, but I kind of don't give a shit for the moment. There is nothing I can do at this time, yet I can work on my studies, go on dates, bowl with friends and toss back a few beers, just as I could before the election. I'm not saying this election won't produce terrible consequences, just that I can ignore them and still have a great life.
 
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The Bright side for me is that I live in a small town, in a world that won't be wholly affected by much on the national scale. I stopped reading any national political stories the moment I realized Trump won, except for checking in here from time to time. I'll hear discussions about who is being appointed, and many I know are outraged, but I kind of don't give a shit for the moment. There is nothing I can do at this time, yet I can work on my studies, go on dates, bowl with friends and toss back a few beers, just as I could before the election. I'm not saying this election won't produce terrible consequences, just that I can ignore them and still have a great life.
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I guess you haven't heard about the wine tithe to our new emperor.
 
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The Bright side for me is that I live in a small town, in a world that won't be wholly affected by much on the national scale. I stopped reading any national political stories the moment I realized Trump won, except for checking in here from time to time. I'll hear discussions about who is being appointed, and many I know are outraged, but I kind of don't give a shit for the moment. There is nothing I can do at this time, yet I can work on my studies, go on dates, bowl with friends and toss back a few beers, just as I could before the election. I'm not saying this election won't produce terrible consequences, just that I can ignore them and still have a great life.
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Check your privilege bro.
 
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