America
Needs To Understand This For 2020
So we are in the midst of yet another presidential screwjob. Oh, sure, we may call it an “election”, but,
really, you know this game is being rigged at every opportunity. If you thought Russia was tampering with it
four years ago, just wait until you start reading about all of the fun stuff
going on this time around!
Of course there are opportunities to strengthen security, but a certain
political faction led by a certain narcissist in the White House is blocking
any bills that would do just that. It
appears that the party that screamed that it’s a “rigged system” four years ago
is making sure that it stays rigged in their favor.
But... what do you expect, right?
Fairness? No such thing for the
party that has made #cheat2win their campaign strategy.
However, part of the reason why the game is rigged is that we refuse to accept
a few things. Whether it’s hard-wired in
our thick skulls or because certain brains are just under-developed or it’s because
of our own goddamned egos, there are some truths that are out there that get forgotten
or ignored during every election cycle.
These are some of the things that Americans need to get into their
self-important self-entitled skulls this time around. I’d like to think they’re important. I’m sure some of you will too. I’m saying them to try to save some time.
1. The President of the
United States is a lying, manipulative, narcissistic thug. That is not speculation. That is empirical. He has flip-flopped and reversed himself on
statements he has made on numerous occasions, admitting doing somethings, then
denying them, then flipping again and taking pride in them, and then claiming
he’s never said or did it. He claims
that his ego-wall would be paid for by Mexico, then say that Mexico will
compensate afterward for it, then claim that he’s never specifically said that
Mexico would pay for it, and now he’s pilfering spending from the military and any
other place in the federal budget to build it.
That issue alone is proof that he cannot be taken at his word for
anything, including the time of day.
2. There is no “bottom” with
supporters of the narcissist in the White House. There is no limit, no boundary, no subject
that the supporters of the narcissist in the White House will consider to be
out of bounds. Their idolization of
their leader is such that they will put him over everything, including their
own well-being.
Look at all the farmers who voted for him and how they are losing their
farms because of his trade war. Look at
the truck drivers who are losing business because of the same trade war. Look at all of the factory workers that are
losing their jobs for the same reason.
Do you think any of them will change their minds? Don’t hold your breath on that. They have been conditioned to believe in
their political messiah no matter what he does to them. They all firmly believe that they will get
their “riches” soon, if they haven’t already.
The media operate on the delusion that there is some sort of limit that
people will reach that they will eventually say “no” to. They don’t want to think that people could be
so blinded that they would tolerate anything, no matter how cruel or
destructive or even self-destructive.
The media has ignored and have even failed human history 101.
These supporters and enablers are people that believe with every cell in
their being whatever fiction the narcissist in the White House sets down and is
reinforced by his propaganda mills, and they cannot be swayed by it, even when
the truth is made plain. Their cognitive
dissonance will not accept the truth if the truth contradicts their passionate
support. And, really, the media, and
specifically the Washington DC press corps, need to understand that.
3. Stop trying to turn those
who cannot accept reality to the truth. Again, this is all the problem with the
media, and specifically the Washington DC press corps, who seem to have it in
their heads that the people who have been conditioned for years... literally
decades.... with an alternative view of the world can somehow change if they’re
just told the truth.
We are talking about an alternate history and worldview that says that
their icon, the narcissist in the White House, has done nothing but good things
all his life. That the political faction
that has been engaging in open and partisan sabotage of the American system for
the past two decades is somehow doing it for the good of the nation. That the economy is doing great and their
lives are somehow better specifically because of the narcissist in the White
House, even when it is falling all around them.
I’ve seen this with cult followers, with religious extremists, and with those
who have been conned by financial scammers.
They all believe the fiction that is told to them, and nothing in the
world will dissuade them of it until the bitter end.
Remember the followers of David Koresh?
Their house was literally burning down all around them, and this was
after an armed assault on their compound, but they still believed what he told
them right to their grisly deaths.
You know all those people fleeced by white collar criminals on “American
Greed”? They all believe whatever the
con artist tells them about their investments right up to the point where it’s
all gone. They all firmly believed that
the money they gave without question would still pay out for them, and nothing
you could say would sway them.
You cannot change the minds of these kinds of people. You cannot get them to switch or to flip
because they have mentally invested themselves into the cause. The more you try, the more resilient they
are. You can only insulate yourself from
them and hope to minimize the damage. If
they do change, it has to come on their own, without prodding or pestering.
4. Wall Street is not the
economy! People
keep looking at Wall Street as somehow being the barometer to the whole
economy. That’s like judging how well a
vehicle is performing by looking at the washer fluid reservoir.
The rise and fall of stocks in Wall Street are not a barometer to the
economy. The Dow Jones is literally owned
by the same corporation that owns the Wall Street Journal and the propaganda
mill that calls itself “Fox News”! It
had might as well be just another propaganda operation. It rises and falls based on rumors and fears.
Think about all of the times that you hear about the Dow Jones rising or falling
based on rumors or fears in just this past year alone! The narcissist in the White House or his toadies
and lackies say something and the Dow races up or crashes down. Something completely unrelated to finance
like a viral outbreak can shake up the stock market for that day. Does that sound like a reasoned barometer?
The economy is greater than the financial crack house that is Wall
Street, or even Corporate America. Yes, the
corporations are doing great. The wealthy
have always been doing great. But what
about the rest of us? What about the millions
that have been doing nothing but struggling to make ends meet and keep
themselves from bankruptcy? Retail chains
are shutting down. Banks are laying
people off. Factories are closing. Even trucking
companies have filed for bankruptcy!
All the promised Amazon warehouses can’t make up for those things.
And, yeah, the “official” unemployment numbers have been low, but they
cannot stay that way. We saw this happen
twelve years ago. All of those layoffs
and closings will translate into higher unemployment sooner rather than later.
But, yeah, let’s look at the Wall Street crack house and sing “Let the
Good Times Roll” along with the narcissist in the White House.
5. Whatever opposition
exits, it will always be branded as “socialist”. It doesn’t matter who gets the nomination for
the Democratic Party in 2020, that person will instantly be branded a
“pinko-leftist commie socialist Satanist atheist” by the followers and
supporters and enablers of the narcissist in the White House. Yes, that includes “Mr. Money” Mike
Bloomberg, the supposedly self-made (actual)
billionaire.
This advances the script, the fiction, the fairy tale, by the political
faction that enables the narcissist in the White House that they and only they
are the supporters and defenders of peace and freedom and capitalism and
prosperity and God in America. It
doesn’t matter who is really left or center of anything on the side of the
Dems. You could even have an old Blue
Dog Democrat in the running, and it would not matter because they will all be
tarred and feathered by this slur. In
fact, they already are.
It quite literally is “with us or against us” with these people. And if you’re not “with” them, then you are
considered a “pinko-leftist commie socialist Satanist atheist”. And, yes, that includes my friends in the
Libertarian Party who are not supporters of the narcissist in the White House
by any stretch of the imagination and are nowhere near the category of
“socialist” or “communist”. In that
regard, the people that support and enable the narcissist in the White House
are extremists, and extremists can only see things in absolute zero-sum
concepts.
And finally...
6. Whomever the nominee is
against the narcissist in the White House, it will not be a “perfect”
candidate. We
seem to have this delusion that whomever is running for the White House has to
be the “perfect” candidate. The one with
no flaws. No skeletons in their
closet. No past that contradicts who
they are today. The one with the stances
that everyone agrees with.
The reality is that this kind of candidate not only does not exist, it can
never exist.
Let’s get brutally honest here... we all make mistakes in our lives. We grow and we change as we get older. Our stances and our beliefs evolve over
time. Some things we used to believe in
when we were young and stupid we now reject and we either abandon them or we evolve
them to adapt to the realities around us.
If you think that you are somehow the exception to this rule, then you
are not only dead wrong, but you may need medical help getting your head out of
your colon.
I know the delusion we have about the primary and caucus portion of the
presidential election is that the “winner” is someone that is “the best” of whatever
political party there is. However, that kind
of delusion pretty much was slaughtered in the 2016 Farce, when one party
cheated to favor a certain overbearing self-entitled nominee, and the other
party was literally bullied into accepting the narcissist and walking hypocrisy
that is in the White House today.
The question that you have to ask yourself is this: do you really want an
unstable and malignant narcissist in the White House to stay there for four
more years and continue to put America and the whole world in peril for that
time? Or do you want someone else? Anyone else?
Even if they’re not perfect?
I have frequently said to vote your conscience. So can your conscience allow that unstable and
malignant narcissist to stay in the White House when your vote can change that?
Think about it. But don’t think too
long. November will be here before you know
it.
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