“Shit, cried the queen, and throughout the land there was a great movement”. It’s an old joke but, unfortunately, it has come to fruition in modern times. The mind of a M.A.G.A.t is one of the wonders of the world. The entire world is wondering how on earth anyone can fall for the continuous lies and scams put forth by the cult leader who just happens to be stinking up the office of President of the United States.
The only explanation I can conjure up is that they know the lies are just that but they don’t care. Their leader has told them, in a not-so-subtle way, to go along with anything he says. Truth has no place in their world. Their guru has spoken, don’t bother them with facts. They have heard, and must obey, the words of (almost) God himself.
Trump is threatening to resurrect his demand for money to pay the insurrectionists for having been convicted for their criminal activities, all while refusing aid to democratic run states which suffered devastating losses from natural occurrences.,
He demands money to build monuments to himself while cutting aid to the elderly and the sick. He spouts ridiculous lies about his many failures and calls actual facts ‘fake news’. He wants to revoke FCC licenses to networks who tell the truth about his disastrous administration while his own pathetic little social ragtag is doing exactly what he accuses them of doing.
Of course, that is typical of trump. If he accuses someone of something illegal, immoral, unethical, or downright evil, you can bet your bottom dollar that he is doing, or has done, the exact same thing. And, of course, the M.A.G.A.t’s eat it up. It’s because their pitiful little brains have been programed to listen only to their master.
What really makes this situation perplexing is that some of the M.A.G.A.t’s actually are, or at least were, intelligent human beings. Unfortunately, intelligence and common sense are not a package duo. Many people with what would be considered lower intelligence are blessed with an abundance of common sense. And, conversely, many higher intelligence individuals are totally unfamiliar with common sense.
Can anyone explain to me why a person of color would be a trump supporter when he is so openly racist? Or why people of Latino or Hispanic heritage would support him when he wants to deport persons of their own heritage?
And, for the life of me, I CANNOT understand the thinking (or lack of) of the religious community when he violates every rational concept of Christianity. The answer to that might come down to the lust for power. Everything trump does is a glaring power play. The same thing can be said for many of the so-called religious leaders in this country. And other countries, I might add. Too many times, religion is not about the saving of souls, as they claim, it is about controlling the thoughts and actions of their constituents. The mere thought of a woman having control of her own body is anathema to them.
America is on the verge of falling into a precipice from which there is no escape. Just giving control of congress back to the Democrats isn’t enough. A democratic congress is still powerless unless they also have a veto-proof margin of membership.
Congress can override an executive order by passing legislation overruling it but, again, it will take a veto-proof congress to offset the veto which would, of course, be forthcoming.
I still want to see that ocean of blue, showing that there are decent, caring individuals who really are patriots. Partriots of America, that is, not of some dictatorship.
Enough Insanity: vote blue