Chris Coolsma
2 min readJan 15, 2018

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Dear Chris,

Thanks for responding. You are right, of course. I know I didn’t answer my retorical question myself. I elaborated on ‘this man’. The right answer asks for an essay, or historical polital-economical-sociological-cultural-psychological analysis.

Because my post was located in the realm of satire, with its inherent tongue-in-cheek hyperbole, and because of my own lack of knowledge and insight, I didn’t even try to dig into the matter.

My natural attitude would be to do research into the causes of the existence of this Electoral College, and the causes of the convergence of middle-finger f*ck you attitude folks, racist bigot folks including a band of dangerous morons called alt-right or KKK, evangelical conservative folks, the capitalist mafia, the people that believe in the frame of the Shitmeister as a successful businessman, the gunslingers of the NRA and the personal political interest of the Christie-kind opportunist GOP politicians (to name a few, often overlapping factions) into the mass of people voting for the ludicrous enigma that is presently your president. One cause of the f*ck you attitude is the failure of the Dems to really solve the actual social en economical problems of the middle and lower classes. ‘Why didn’t you vote for Hillary?’ ‘Because she doesn’t give a f*ck for me, she calls me despicable’. ‘Why didn’t you vote for Bernie? ‘Because he is a darn socialist’. Etc. etc.

Oh, help, I started doing something I should not do without a long, broad, deep study. I really believe in the power of the citizens of the USA to re-invent themselves, their society, the politico-economical system. If there really are more people against the B-C-in-C and his party, than support them, you will win.

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Chris Coolsma

Friend of life and beauty and foe of spoilers of life and beauty. Golden marriage. Grandfather. Pianist and micro poet. Dutch, European.