Comments by "KesArt" (@kesart8378) on "The Ring of Fire"
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Taylor-Greene's supporters, just as Trump's supporters, favour entertainment value in those whom they support. Actual ability as a legislator--or president--takes a distant back seat to "charisma." Far too often I have heard Trump/ Taylor-Greene boosters explain their support with the words "She/he speaks her/his mind no matter whom they offend." Or, "She/he has so much energy; Biden is boring. "
My five year old granddaughter speaks her mind with little consideration as to the ramifications of doing so. And while I applaud her fierce, articulate, independent streak, I am not compensating her with a six-figure salary, nor do I, nor her parents, give her tasks upon which the success of the household rests.
Isn't it time for all Americans to set the bar higher and to demand far more of politicians than they employ the verbal filter that every stable adult learned the value of long ago.
Lastly, the true madness of Taylor-Greene became fully apparent to me when I watched a tape of her calling out the President of the United States with the words, "Joe Biden, you're a piece of s**t!" Her true derangement never shone clearer than in that moment, which given her catalogue of demonstrably unstable, patently offencive behaviour, is no mean feat.
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@waynegnarlie1 Pastor Niemoller's now famous prose clearly implies that silence equals complicity. When moral people fail to oppose evil, they are in effect condoning it, and that through their failure to oppose said evil they may well find themselves prey to that same evil.
Perhaps in a fashion Niemoller's mea culpa can be viewed as a an appeal to both humankind's better angels, as well as to self-interest: When people speak out against that which they clearly know to be wrong, they are, through their opposition, helping to limit the spread--and hopefully ending the influence--of the malignancy that they have chosen to repudiate, for hate, when left unchecked, often proves insatiable in that once it has a foothold it seeks out other targets to conquer.
Niemoller has, as a clear predecessor the writer John Donne whose poetical Meditation, remembered for the "No Man Is An Island" section, cautioned readers to remember that we are all parts of a greater whole, all interconnected, and that what ill befalls one affects all.
Thus, those who excused the near ceaseless bigotry, racism and nativism of Trump did, through their permissiveness, smooth the path for other haters, such as Representative Gosar.
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Depression, by itself, is not synonymous with a failure of one's critical faculties. Many adults who do suffer from depression still manage to maintain their dignity, maturity and their ability to accept disappointment and frustration without flying into a rage at every additional perceived slight, or imagined wrong.
Unfortunately, people who place their faith in fables and insupportable narratives will suffer grave disappointment when said myths and fictive narratives crumble.
In an epoch in which change occurs at a rate far more rapid than of previous ages, people can experience a not unreasonable sense of insecurity. And an age of anxiety provides fertile ground for a demagogue.
Trump, and his minions, recognized the vast reservoir of flammable white male grievance and sense of victimhood--and its concomitant anxiety over the predicted coming diminution of White Christian male hegemony--out in America and they gleefully tossed a match upon it. Trump did not create "the rage on the right"--which January sixth showed the entire world was not a pathology solely the province of rural, undereducated Whites--but he supercharged it.
But before Trump's normalizing of incivility and aggressivity towards one's opponents came his attack upon facts, upon essential American institutions, such as the free press, the intelligence services, and the "liberal judiciary," as well as uponTruth itself. And once you can convince your disciples that all their worries and disappointments spring not--even part--from themselves, but from a network of formerly trusted Judases now revealed to have been the source of their woes all along...that can prove quite frightening and depressing...unless you provide a saviour, a bringer of the REAL TRUTH, someone who will convince the fretful, fearful masses not to place their faith in their own deceiving eyes and ears, but in him.
Again, this willingness of those on the American right to embrace an autocrat evolved over time; it did not start with Trump. And the erosion of the American educational system, the rise of the Internet, the decline of traditional, formerly trusted sources of information, the slide into a post-textual/post-literate age did not happen overnight. But Republicans found in Donald Trump the perfect avatar with which to capitalize upon the racism, xenophobia, "replacement theory" fears, misogyny, and degraded powers of discernment that led to an inability to recognize the real sources of America's problems, and a pronounced exuberance in welcoming the "Chosen One" with his crusade intent on overturning comity, traditions, decorousness, even established laws and time-honoured policies all to dismantle American institutions--indeed, democracy, itself--in order to keep real the fantasy of returning to that Great America, Again, that whitewashed, heavily edited, ahistorical version still alive in the minds of true believers.
Yes, so when your "Chosen One" falls from power, through treachery (read: "rigged elections"), just as he had predicted--"One of you will betray me...the one who dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me."--do you not--as a faithful disciple--have the right to grieve/be depressed, and, post-bereavement period, seek vengeance. " You have to fight like hell or you won't have a country anymore "
And when one legal attempt to overturn the election after another fails, and your legal crusaders-Lin Wood, Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell- labour under ridicule, sanctions and lawsuits, and the holy audit of Maricopa County has yet to yield the desired results after all this time, , and even the "patriotic" attack upon the Capitol failed to achieve its intended ends, anger grows and depression deepens, depression and anger deepened by the radical-liberal-socialist cabal trying to usurp your "rights" as a parent with mask mandates, and vaccination requirements. And you'll be damned if you will let THEM make you feel powerless. (And damn this pandemic that don't want to call it quits--though I'm sure not getting any DNA altering vaccine, I just want to return to life as it was pre-COVID.)
So I'm going to plant my flag at the school board meeting so those fascist board members--and anyone who sees the resulting video, will know just how angry and tired (read: depressed) I truly am.
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We need to take a breath and pause lest, in our rush to judgment, we disenfranchise those Trump voters who suffer from Dissociative Personality Disorder: If the dominant personality of an individual afflicted with DPD happens to be pro-Trump, then said individual must verify, through the unimpeachable sworn testimony of a highly credentialed mental health expert, that they suffer from DPD (formerly referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder).
If such certification does pass muster, so to speak then election officials must weigh the possibility of allowing said individual(s) to vote more than once.
Furthermore, the determinant of how many times each person afflicted with DPD should rest with a panel of preeminent scholar/practitioners from the field of Psychiatry whose speciality resides within the study of Dissociative Personality Disorder.
To assuage skeptics reading this, we wish to remind said skeptics that those plagued by this disorder act as vessels for personalities that usually differ considerably in temperament and, thus, quite likely in political outlook.
So while all this may prove a wash, we must remember Mitch McConnell's highly garbled exhortation--translated by scientists intimately familiar with the vocalizations of amphibians, specifically frogs--that "PresidentTrump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of 'irregularities' and to weigh his legal options."
Thus the obscene carnival rolls on.
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