Reading about this here I was first appalled, or worse, so I had to look into the process a bit further.
I'm so tired of being outraged lately, and the Trump cultists like to fuel their opposition with anything
that drives them nuts, so...
Read this link and you'll feel a little better:
Nomination and Selection of Nobel Prizes
https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/It's a process.
Anyone can be nominated by authorized nominators. (As we've seen today--ANYONE.)
There are 330 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018.
330 is the second highest number of candidates ever.
The record of 376 candidates was set in 2016.
So Trump would be in a group of a few hundred nominees next year. After nominations close at the end of January
there's a selection process to determine the final list voted upon. I have to assume these people will know what
they are doing.
I'm not sure how the following relates to us knowing Trump got nominated:
From the statutes of the Nobel Foundation:Proposals received for the award of a prize, and investigations and opinions concerning the award of a prize, may not be divulged. A prize-awarding body may, however, after due consideration in each individual case, permit access to material which formed the basis for the evaluation and decision concerning a prize, for purposes of research in intellectual history. Such permission may not, however, be granted until at least 50 years have elapsed after the date on which the decision in question was made.In any case, let us not give our opponents any reason to enjoy our
heads exploding over this. That seems to be one of their primary
joys in supporting Trump. That it makes their opposition crazy.
I did note on this website that former Nobel Peace Prize Winners are allowed
to nominate. I do wish Barack Obama would offer up a considered nomination.
I also think the Nobel people should reword their process. Since anyone can be nominated, they should,
like the Oscars, call this period "being submitted for nomination" because they whittle down the choices.
It's not like the first round really means anything other than you're in the mix of choices.
Of course, the reason this news item bothers me is that an ordinary President would
be humble about this news. They might offer up they don't even think it's deserved.
The current mouthpiece will bask in his perceived adulation, talk about it at every turn,
demean the Prize in doing so, and get his cultists to use it as a weapon.
