Isolation Diary: Covid numbers in LA currently are not good. I and my family are contracting our safe circle. We still have each other. We are deeply grateful for that. We are also suffering from a lack of wider contacts. And then there is the craziness of the insurrection. Has the pandemic exacerbated this anger and distorted understanding? I have never conversed with a Trumpian. I may know only one, not sure. There has been so much anxious static in the atmosphere I have had troubled sleeping lately.
Years ago I had an experience with crowd energy and manipulation, I found it exceedingly dangerous and have mostly avoided large crowds since then. Wednesday was an example of crowd/mob energy and it is not pretty.
I am here in my home, or at Jessie’s, or at Maggie’s, I am not going out to circulate and talk to people and demonstrate and put myself on the line. And that is frustrating. I want to know, to ask, what a Trump cultist (not just a voter like Sen. Toomey) believes would be so much better with Trump in power and what they fear, because they all are afraid, will happen with a Biden administration. Specifically. Not a general comment about Socialism. But how they believe their lives will be impacted negatively by the Biden administration. And if it turns out that their day to day lives would be okay (of course once the pandemic is brought under control and small businesses can operate again, all thanks to the administration, I hope) then the fear is rooted in something else. And that’s another discussion. And closer to the truth.