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Dick Van Dyke: 'Fortunately I Won't Be Around' for All of Donald Trump's Presidency
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/tvshowbiz/video-3311407/Video-Dick-Van-Dyke-thankful-wont-experience-four-years-Trump.html
Dick Van Dyke made a grim joke after the election, implying that he would rather be dead than live through another four years under Donald Trump.
The Hollywood legend, who turns 99 next month, was approached in a paparazzi video taken Tuesday (via Daily Mail) and asked, “Does the future look bright for America?”
“I hope you’re right,” Van Dyke said, before he was asked whether he thinks Trump “is capable of making America great again.”...
“Hatred is not the norm. Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating, none of those are the transcendent facet of the human personality. They’re diseases. They are. They're cancers of the soul,” Van Dyke read, in part.
He continued, “There will be moments of violence and expressions of hatred and [an] ugly echo of intolerance, but these are the clinging vestiges of a decayed past, not the harbingers of the better, cleaner future.To those who tell us the inequality of the human animal is a necessary evil, we must respond by simply saying that first, it is evil, but not necessary.” - Variety
Dick Van Dyke made a grim joke after the election, implying that he would rather be dead than live through another four years under Donald Trump.
The Hollywood legend, who turns 99 next month, was approached in a paparazzi video taken Tuesday (via Daily Mail) and asked, “Does the future look bright for America?”
“I hope you’re right,” Van Dyke said, before he was asked whether he thinks Trump “is capable of making America great again.”...
“Hatred is not the norm. Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating, none of those are the transcendent facet of the human personality. They’re diseases. They are. They're cancers of the soul,” Van Dyke read, in part.
He continued, “There will be moments of violence and expressions of hatred and [an] ugly echo of intolerance, but these are the clinging vestiges of a decayed past, not the harbingers of the better, cleaner future.To those who tell us the inequality of the human animal is a necessary evil, we must respond by simply saying that first, it is evil, but not necessary.” - Variety
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... to be doing so well. I hope he sticks around for 4-plus years!
wisdom. 
