11-09-2022, 10:06 PM
We cannot fault polls for human stupidity, cowardice, cruelty, and cravenness. We need remember that white gentile Americans of contemporary America are little better in these aspects of life than German gentiles around 1930. One nasty economic downturn can disintegrate whatever veneer of decency underpins democracy. America's model minorities may be less hooked on these vices, and such may be all that has kept us from going fully into Trumpism or worse. The polls that fail to show the political results of such vileness are in the same league as the physician who conceals the reality of a terminal disease from a patient. American democracy remains on life support, and some people would be delighted in pulling the plug to hasten the receipt of their inheritances.
Democracy is designed for generally-good and wise people and not for people. I don't like to attribute political beliefs to stupidity or amorality, but it should be clear by now that Trumpism is incompatible to wisdom, kindness, caution. or conscience. Winston Groom may have forced the words "Stupid is as stupid does" into his character Forrest Gump, but those who do stupid, cruel, craven, things do "stupid" and they expose themselves to the effects of personal stupidity. Regrettably these people can impose misery upon those who had nothing to do with the decision, whether with drug addiction or with support for dictatorial politics.
I recognize that Arkansas is toward the bottom in many social metrics. It elected as Governor "Comical Sally"... Sarah Huckabee Sanders, best known as President Trump's appointed liar as Press Secretary. More shocking is that Wisconsin, which is toward the top with most such metrics (and in those metrics it far excels Michigan) seems to have re-elected Ron Johnson as one of its Senators. This man pushed the false electors, and should be a disgrace for such.
Know well that where corruption flourishes, there is always some powerful, evil interest who has a stake in that corruption. Senator Ron Johnson, whom I would accuse of being the reincarnation of the other disgraceful US Senator from Wisconsin the infamous Joseph R. McCarthy except that I do not believe in reincarnation. well serves those who believe the two core principles of plutocracy: that those who own the gold have the right to make the rules, and that no human suffering can ever be in excess on behalf of elite power, indulgence, and gain.
The Citizens United decision has all but gutted American democracy. It has given people with anti-democratic intent the right to lie without consequence. At the least a nominee who makes horrific, abominable statements can be called to account. PR firms in the services of shadowy interests can dispense lies with impunity because they do so too late for the liberal opponent to have a retort.
As said one man who knew what he was doing, a man whose truths were rare but whose ruthless manipulation created a reign of unrelieved fear, said,
We should all know who.
Democracy is designed for generally-good and wise people and not for people. I don't like to attribute political beliefs to stupidity or amorality, but it should be clear by now that Trumpism is incompatible to wisdom, kindness, caution. or conscience. Winston Groom may have forced the words "Stupid is as stupid does" into his character Forrest Gump, but those who do stupid, cruel, craven, things do "stupid" and they expose themselves to the effects of personal stupidity. Regrettably these people can impose misery upon those who had nothing to do with the decision, whether with drug addiction or with support for dictatorial politics.
I recognize that Arkansas is toward the bottom in many social metrics. It elected as Governor "Comical Sally"... Sarah Huckabee Sanders, best known as President Trump's appointed liar as Press Secretary. More shocking is that Wisconsin, which is toward the top with most such metrics (and in those metrics it far excels Michigan) seems to have re-elected Ron Johnson as one of its Senators. This man pushed the false electors, and should be a disgrace for such.
Know well that where corruption flourishes, there is always some powerful, evil interest who has a stake in that corruption. Senator Ron Johnson, whom I would accuse of being the reincarnation of the other disgraceful US Senator from Wisconsin the infamous Joseph R. McCarthy except that I do not believe in reincarnation. well serves those who believe the two core principles of plutocracy: that those who own the gold have the right to make the rules, and that no human suffering can ever be in excess on behalf of elite power, indulgence, and gain.
The Citizens United decision has all but gutted American democracy. It has given people with anti-democratic intent the right to lie without consequence. At the least a nominee who makes horrific, abominable statements can be called to account. PR firms in the services of shadowy interests can dispense lies with impunity because they do so too late for the liberal opponent to have a retort.
As said one man who knew what he was doing, a man whose truths were rare but whose ruthless manipulation created a reign of unrelieved fear, said,
Quote:What luck for rulers, that men do not think.
We should all know who.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.