Posted on 11/11/2016 6:55:19 PM PST by 11th_VA
Of all the celebrities who sound off about politics and culture, few can express the kind of good, old-fashioned common sense that Mike Rowe often shares. The former host of “Dirty Jobs” speaks blunt truth with uncommon joviality and earnestness.
Though your average liberal observer of the American experience may pretend to be just one of the folks, Rowe is the real deal, authentic and genuine.
When someone asked him on Facebook to weigh in on the shocker of Tuesday’s election and its turbulent aftermath, he responded with typical Rowe wit and wisdom.
Rowe began his assessment of the situation by talking about “Dirty Jobs,” his incredibly successful Discovery Channel show that chronicled professions most TV hosts wouldn’t dream of exploring.
Dirty Jobs didn’t resonate because the host was incredibly charming,” Rowe wrote. “It wasn’t a hit because it was gross, or irreverent, or funny, or silly, or smart, or terribly clever. Dirty Jobs succeeded because it was authentic. It spoke directly and candidly to a big chunk of the country that non-fiction networks had been completely ignoring. In a very simple way, Dirty Jobs said “Hey — we can see you, to millions of regular people who had started to feel invisible. Ultimately, that’s why Dirty Jobs ran for eight seasons. And today, that’s also why Donald Trump is the President of the United States. Rowe then said that he was worried about how the election had gone, but not for the same reasons professed by the destructive agitators and hateful rioters currently taking to the nation’s streets to protest President-elect Donald Trump.
I know people are freaked out, Carol. I get it. I’m worried too. But not because of who we elected. We’ve survived 44 Presidents, and we’ll survive this one too. I’m worried because millions of people now seem to believe that Trump supporters are racist, xenophobic, and uneducated misogynists. I’m worried because despising our candidates publicly is very different than despising the people who vote for them. Rowe also pointed out the rancor and the divisiveness coming from the left on electronic media.
Last week, three old friends — people I’ve known for years — each requested to be “unfriended” by anyone who planned on voting for Trump. Honestly, that was disheartening. Who tosses away a friendship over an election? Are my friends turning into those mind-numbingly arrogant celebrities who threaten to move to another country if their candidate doesn’t win? Are my friends now convinced that people they’ve known for years who happen to disagree with them politically are not merely mistaken — but evil, and no longer worthy of their friendship? Hear, hear.
Early this morning, I awoke to see the most judgmental liberal on my Facebook feed — one who has consistently called anyone who isn’t as outraged as she is a misogynist, xenophobe, racist, rapist and a bully — saying that she was leaving social media because it was making her feel worse as opposed to better. Oh, really?
For the last two elections, the candidate I favored did not win, and someone who I thought represented a danger to the United States’ sovereignty and solvency took office both times. I don’t recall saying that I was “literally shaking” and taking to the streets to burn the American flag and destroy private property. I never once posted screenshots of airfares to Toronto and Montreal.
Sure, I write about why I don’t believe Obama is a good president, and I spare nothing. However, coming from a major urban area, I would venture that a slight majority of my friends are Obama supporters, and proudly so. I don’t antagonize or belittle or “unfriend” them. I respect their opinions.
In the aftermath of this election tsunami for Republicans, I’ve been called every conceivable name by people I considered friends, many of whom didn’t even know they were targeting me with their venom. I’ve seen the flag of my country trampled and set aflame in places I have lived. I’ve seen protesters calling for my blood.
Mike Rowe is right. Trump voters didn’t cast their ballots for the Republican ticket because they’re xenophobes or bigots. They’re everyday people sick of being looked at with contempt by the liberal elite and their tantrum-pitching mob of raging protesters.
The problem isn’t Trump, liberals. The problem is intolerance — yours.
Trump offered freedom.
If anything, his ads underplayed that, stressing prosperity and “greatness.” But maybe America was so used to “unfreedom” that other things were the only things that could appeal to it.
But when we see miracles work — it will be not because Trump is an ultra-Einstein, but it will be because of a new dance, a dance to a tune called freedom.
Good read. It’s only been a couple of days and already we have seen so many examples of the intolerant left.
Not enough media are denouncing the riots. Why isn’t the president denouncing the riots? If he was for unity why did Obama refuse to have his picture taken with Trump, like Bush did with Obama?
The good thing about all this hypocrisy is that independents are are finally getting a good look at where the real problems of intolerance stem from. The liberal democrats.
The lefties are pouting because their work is being destroyed. Yup it is an educational spectacle.
Their work hasn’t been destroyed yet, but I sure its coming. One thing I am tired of hearing from the left is that Trump needs to reach out. Bull! The Dems never reached out to Conservatives, in fact Obama used EO’s to avoid giving conservatives a voice.
I hope Trump holds true and and starts overturning Obama’s EO’s the minute he is sworn in. Well ok, the next day, since he has earned his inauguration party. :)
Think about it - the biggest block of voters that Trump tapped into and carried with him are the very people who do those “dirty jobs”. The high-school educated workers and tradesmen who now have to do 2 of them in order to support their families after the good job they used to have was outsourced to China.
I do believe 0bama’s legacy is getting thinner than Grammaw’s underpants... [An old saying]
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Yep and I think that bothers Obama no end. And that makes me smile. :)
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Bump and bookmark for later... falling asleeeeeeep....
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It was probably a good thing he underplayed the “freedom” angle. Freedom is scary to a lot of people. Adults want freedom. Children prefer security. And most liberals are children who would trade away freedom for the security of a nanny state. They are too frightened to take responsibility for themselves and are always looking to the adults to take care of them, protect them, and give them free stuff.
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