What to make of this moment?
This is the woman who made bank on bilking the Tr faithful, who so desperately want something, they do not know quite what it is, so they call it god & god's calling.
But she is a false prophetess, her 'prophesies' & were lies. She is to be shunned.
What is sad is it works.
Not the 'angels released from Africa' (and why would they be released on her word? And why did they need to come from Africa?) But upon the desperate & trembling congregation.
What is remarkable in this new religion is how paltry is its object of worship. More strange: he cares nothing for them, not one moment longer than they are useful.
Yet this amorphous dread they feel, he congeals into tangible forms upon which they can unleash their 2min hate.
Reifying these long nurtured wounds into a form of fear that animates otherwise normal people to believe lies so obviously bereft that it puzzles outsiders into taking up arguments against them, thinking a simple citing of facts will make the difference.
Jesus said what was done in secret would be shouted from the housetops. And so it is...Somehow it has become acceptable, and a fine Orwellian flip of meaning, to call insurrection patriotism. Violence peace. Lies the necessary foundation for a new world order.
Authoritarianism displacing democracy. A man weak in every other way except his destabilizing ability to unleash & utilize his dark machiavellian principles with no constraints. Nothing means anything except as it serves the prime objective of getting & retaining power.
And here the bottomless one attracts those who wish they could be so endowed, but have not yet breached their final hesitation to use & inflict cold blooded power against all their training & deeper selves.
The Graham's, Pence's & Rubio's of the world.
While others, not quite so squeamish, but not as publically compelling, find their soul-mate. These will use each other until the union fails. The McConnell's of the world.
There are others, not so well known.
And then there are the millions that make up the faithful.
It is hard to weed out a religion as we are observing & experiencing in real-time.
Much depends upon how determined we are to save our republic.Much of that depends upon a severe telling of the truth to counter the incredible years-long campaign of lies.
It is a difficult impasse
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@wfrolik@Mikel_Jollett This would be an excellent line to explore. I think you are spot-on.
One of my aphorisms is
"You cannot see what you are not looking at"
W. the implication that if your axiomatic framework does not allow you to see a thing, you simply - not only will not - but cannot.
@wfrolik@Mikel_Jollett 2/ The "wisdom level" ponder to this point is to wonder about the quality of the "Guardians" who are charged with being wise for the country/system - it is at root their only job. If you are constitutionally incapacitated from not only understanding, but even acknowledging
@wfrolik@Mikel_Jollett 3/ reality....What kind of "Guardian" are you?.
We have our answer shoved in our face daily. Today's idiocy is this diversion nonsense around Dr Suess. Tomorrow it will be something else.
It occurs, having come this far, that there is some group psychosis in play. I don't
To the degree this is true, and it certainly is for this crowd, it bodes well, w some major potential problems: 1. Tr is weak, fragile. No longer a darling, he has some strong headwinds. An egoist is not a sufficient base for a long-term movement. 2. Others have written well on
potential of the GOP splitting. That would be good for the country. IMO we need a true two party system. But one devoted fundamentally to the core values & foundational propositions of the country. As it is it is anything but. It is not an exaggeration to think a deep
unreconcilable split is in the offing if certain trajectories do not change. One of the concise statements of the syndrome is Molly Ivans identifying one of the core goals of Bush, but by extension the GOP:
They do not wish to govern, but to rule.
We cannot wait for some relative of one of our "guardians" to have a personal crisis before they see how Health Care needs to be addressed. And how flawed the GOP anti-solutions are.
Or, like Cheney, to recognize the inanity/flaw of GOP stance on gays, because of his daughter.
We are governed by fiat, & personal proclivities & as opposed to wisdom & insight into real problems, with real ideas, that address not politician's need [lust] for power but the country's need for systemic solutions.
&etc
It is so obvious, yet so hard, because of this failure.
So much of that so utterly unnecessary.
More than just the normal sorrows of life, the suffering inflicted on the country (& world) due to such illicit use of power, implementing policies & programs that incubate this suffering.
@tommy_pane Here is the deal T.
It gives me no pleasure to keep at you at a fundamental level. I have tried to engage you many ways.
But at root, you ignore so much in order to maintain your equilibrium. & in fact you have to. I get it.
These are not policy issues we are debating.
@tommy_pane Your insane ability to ask the wrong next question is, at an analytical level, a curiosity.
And etc.
This one about pedophiles is a perfect example... Follow the thread.
We have gone from your self equivalence w the Q people, and that superior level of crazy...worked through
@tommy_pane 3/ your various attempts to maintain some weird position, which remains occluded. Now, having been blocked at the level of "you don't really care, why not"... which is a stupid line for you to take, in general, and specifically w me. Now you are on to Hollywood and etc..
This vote is not a defeat. It is a perfect opportunity to highlight in unambiguous terms that the Republican Party is devoted not to the country,America and its interests, but they are in service to A Con. A Lie. And a Liar.
If we cannot make this case, then yes the game is over.
The Republicans overreached. It is imperative to recognize they were not voting *for Trump* they voted for their survival as a party.
With sharp decisive strategic moves this can be turned into a rout. This is Napoleon attacking Russia in the winter.
The defeat is in the move.
Let’s not do the standard democratic move and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
There are so many metaphors and examples in analogies to be brought to bear. This is not the time to admit defeat.
That would be to give them the victory.