Politics lives downstream from culture.
Yes, Andrew, but grasping reality is hard for most right now - I talk to people. Because of my adventures with a NewAge Nazi wife, it's just not that hard for me. Don't worry: I'll get it all down for prosperity.
How multiple wars, and "The X-Files", wound-up post-9/11 America, leading to the left's "Truther" movement (which started the whole "er"-thing). That was before Donald Trump's "Birther" claim about President Barack Obama proved - not something, equally as insane, like Donald Trump is a racist - but (danger upon danger) the whole nation had gotten sprung on conspiracy theories.
Especially Ta-Nehisi Coates.
The left engages in 'projection': They accuse you of doing what they're guilty of.
Yes, Andrew, all this, I, too, discovered just by talking to people:
“This is their best chance to put a stake through Trump’s political future,” she said. “If they don’t take it, Trump is going to control this party for 10 years.”
Under Trump’s influence, the GOP will become the party of the QAnon conspiracy theory-supporting Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). It’s “not just dangerous for the Republican Party,” she cautioned, but “an existential threat to the country to have one of the two major political parties controlled by people who are spreading conspiracy theories.”
“And I’m not talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Longwell clarified. “I’m talking about (House GOP Minority Leader) Kevin McCarthy and (Florida GOP Rep.) Matt Gaetz and so many others in Congress who voted to object to a free and fair election, who told voters that it was stolen from them, who followed Donald Trump and it led to a violent attack on the Capitol.”
Everyone is (obviously) compartmentalizing a lot these days, to forget "The Big Creep" was the American leader who unleashed the conspiracy-laden world of "Alternative Facts" on America, when he opened the "Office of Alternative Medicine" for the left's freaks (Like Sen. Tom Harkin) who didn't trust Science. When President Bill Clinton made no demand for facts or evidence - but only the promotion of all things NewAge and crazy - the world was, literally, off to the races. And, it's been off it's rocker, ever since.
That's how Steve Jobs lost his life: slow suicide. No one could talk him out of it. Bill Clinton certainly never tried.
It had all gotten so insane, no one - around the world - even registered it as madness, that Barack Obama campaigned for the Presidency of the United States with the queen of con artists, conspiracy theorists, quacks, and criminals, Oprah Winfrey. They seemed proud of it.
THAT was when life and politics had become a (dangerous) cartoon, and - here was the danger, already, right from the start - few Americans had even registered what kind of "change" they were actually voting for.
And, there's been no one around, with the balls to warn them.
I think the hard truth is that China is influencing US policy against US citizens. But Americans don't see this. So they are struggling to understand what they see - which is seemingly irrational actions against them by their own political class. Then they explain the irrational with the irrational.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds too much like the suggestion good ol' boy, Jeff Sessions, was working for the Russians. Name someone prominent who, you think, is being influenced. Pelosi? Schumer? The Clintons?
ReplyDeleteThe safest bet is to follow the money. A simple glaring example is the current "crises" of the shorts on Wall Street. Already the regulatory captured crowd are rushing to defend reckless gamblers who are gambling with other people's money. The Chinese are simply buying (or renting) people who are quite happy to sell themselves for profit.
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