3/12/2020 President Shmesident – Rosanne Bostonian on Changing Times

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March 4, 2020

President Shmesident

I know everyone has different opinions about Mr. Trump, the array of Democrat candidates and the
relentless process of electing a President and Congress in 2020.  The irony of “20/20” isn’t lost on

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me, since our partisan politics demonstrates the narrowest of vision.  “Me, me, my, me and (if you’ve
forgotten) ME! 

The facts of stagnant upward mobility for lower classes, the globalization of manufacturing jobs
(cutting out traditional blue-collar jobs for our workers), climate change and subsequent desperation
causing massive migrations, loom as huge issues that will reach a boiling point but not before
legendary suffering.

The current Coronavirus scare highlights a need to pull together but, so far we are still fractured.  We
talk about special interests and electability rather than oneness.

It’s a helpless feeling watching our society in disarray.  Is it just me, or is the parade of people on the
show “Paternity Court” disconcerting?   One woman slept with her husband and her boyfriend at the
same time, had twins and figured each twin had a separate father.

Then there is the baseball cheating scandal with the Houston Astros using technology to tell their
batters what pitch was coming, thus increasing the ability to hit the pitch successfully.  This has
caused a big hoohah that will melt into oblivion as the news feed buries us in more information…
always MORE information.

As long as we win, it matters not how we win.  Just that we win.  Character, values, morals.  Shame,
guilt where are you?  Whoever is chewed up in the process will be road kill in the rearview mirror as
we blunder forward at breakneck speed.

I know I sound like the “Boomer” that I am.  I won’t apologize for it.  Now that the proverbial
behavioral cat is out of the bag and anything goes, the question is, “Do we ever get the cat back in
the bag?”  Do we ever come to our senses?

Lord have mercy!

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By Rosanne Bostonian |
The Shelf Life of
Adjusting to December 17, 2019
Culture
Rapid Change Subjective Truth Since
By Rosanne Bostonian |
By Rosanne Bostonian | most of us operate
February 14, 2020
January 17, 2020 under the rule of
Every social order seems “confirmational bias,”
to go through a process How do you keep up? i.e., selective
as if it’s a living being.  We all like to “know that confirmation for what
There is the birth, the life we know!” When change we already believe, the
is happening rapidly, we notion of objectivity in
and ultimately the death.
New society is born of confront what we don’t the press has become a
conflict with pre-existing know on a daily basis. relic of the past. The
ways that have caused This means accepting competition for
separation and the “I Don’t Know Zone” viewership, listenership
rebellion.  Our country as a part of daily living and readership has
was born in the sense of and accommodating to polarized the media into

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