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Heard a story told today – with some mutual satisfied pride –about some mountain people in the far western counties of North Carolina, who, when FEMA after Helene arrived in their estimation late with help, told them with guns that they should leave…’we don’t want or need your help’.

A person trapped behind their social smile.

The vote for the president is less a contest between Harris and Trump that it is a revelation of the social psyche of the USA.

Later I wrote to a Brit I met in Moscow (at my now closed “independent, open lecture forum”):

“Yesterday, for the first of two times, and never before, I served as a “poll observer” at early voting, not too far from me in North Carolina. 

“I thought I might also gain by observing the voters, to see who they might be, and after I had, during perhaps an hour (of four), grown more comfortable with my passive observing tasks, I noticed that “the American world walked in”. It was everybody. Some so apparently young I could not believe they could legally vote; others quite old coming in with canes. Overweight. Slender. Not many blacks or other races because of the area of North Carolina. Some I suppose were for Trump likely. Others, some of whom noticed my tag and smiled, and some with faces I suppose voted for Harris. It was in fact America voting. 

I thought of how voters with all of their many walks in life, and perspectives, and intellectual, and educational levels, and experiences of life, socioeconomic positions, would bring their beliefs, persuadednesses, emotions, thoughts,… and vote. And certainly there are, overall, many voters who are with little education and information for their contribution to this historic decision. Certainly the “founding fathers” would not have considered most of the people (cap)able to be to voters. I, frankly, wondered if not rightly so.

Now, with the contrasts of candidates and their characters and mentalities unquestionable for those who have not otherwise been persuaded or prejudiced, or so attached to a political party, or misinformed (in this case the Republicans, as to vote for a person unquestionably unqualified to be president), my Interpretation of this historic occasion is that it will be a revelation of the main mentalities in the social psyche of America and “Americans”.  Which will win? (and certainly Trump is another mirror in history of a large portion of the American populations mentality.)

If Trump is reelected, I will consider not only him unfit to be president again, but the majority of the American people to democracy.

SL”

When we look up and at the moon, the stars, the planets, the night sky, we assume it, they, are not looking down, at and into us.

Perhaps they are not. But we view them, certainly to a large degree rightly, mainly as scenery, our world and life decor.

The ongoing presidential (and other) election in the USA is a kind of mass social experiment of the national social psyche in its main aspects. 

A creative lawsuit might be brought against Fox “News” for poisoning with known falsehoods, deliberate distortions, obfuscations, and outright fabrications its damaged viewers.

History of articulated/ inarticulated Weltanschauung.

The “worlds” in which leaders and peoples lived, and live.

The revealing embarrassing reality of the multimillion Trump supporters. 

Corporate profits over country. Deceive the viewers.