Subjective (def): "taking place within the mind and
modified by individual bias."
Things that are subjective are open to interpretation. If
you go see a movie about a jewel thief, the topic is not subjective. But
whether it's a good movie or not is subjective.
Subjective things depend on your own ideas and opinions:
there isn't any universal truth. Subjective is the opposite of objective, which
refers to things that are more clear-cut.
Why be so
explicit in the above paragraph? Because
a particularly noxious would be candidate
for the US Presidency is running on a
slogan which trumpets "Let's Make America Great Again." The question is, what exactly does this mean objectively? The answer is, "who knows?" The would be candidate, while by no means
brilliant, is smart enough to understand that many of his slavish devotees filter
that vague generality into their own subjective version of a "Great
America." So what might this "Great
America", mean to the average supporter of Donald J. Trump? I'm reasonably sure that many Trump adherents
see a newly "Great" America as one in which certain groups "know
their place" and stay there. Others
will see it as a nation in which women know their place and remain in it.
What I find
truly troubling is that many Americans, either working in union jobs or retired
on pensions bargained for them by unions, support Trump because of his tough talk
regarding immigration, yet are unaware
of the disdain Trump feels for organized labor.
Any working American who, for even a moment, believes that Donald Trump gives a hoot about
the rights of the ordinary employed American need only to look at what he has done
in Ireland and Scotland to discern the
truth. Trump is the poster child for
white privilege and elitism in America.
While the vision
of a "Great America" may vary widely, depending upon the subjective
perception of the target audience, it goes as a given that it probably doesn't
mean anything to Trump which is remotely similar to that version of most of his
followers. He disdains them and they love it. Trump followers are a cadre of
masochists, pledging allegiance to a narcissistic political hack, who cares
nothing for them.
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