Now that the RNC convention is behind us, it's apparent that the Idiot didn't get any post-convention bounce. In fact, his approval ratings even dipped a bit in some polls. Some of that is no doubt due to his singularly uninspired speech accepting the nomination. You would think by now that he'd take the time to learn how to read the teleprompter without sounding like he's doing some kind of perverse Gregorian chant. He tilts his head, grasps the podium and sounds utterly bored with what he's saying. And, in truth, the words on the teleprompter are written by somebody who can at least remember what the point of being there is. But, it still comes off sounding inane and intellectually stunted.....seriously so.
So, as the Idiot begins to sense that he really could lose this election, several things are beginning to emerge as his choice of strategy. Foremost among them is demagoguery, i.e.appealing to peoples' emotions with lots of hyped-up rhetoric. An example of this would be his wild assertions of what Biden will do and what a Biden presidency would cause to happen. Perhaps the most un-hinged was his claim that, "....Biden will hurt God," which even most Christian pundits rejected as a silly idea. If God is omnipotent and omniscient how can a mere mortal injure Him? Oh,c'mon.
Once the Idiot is on a roll, the bullshit flows out of his piggy little hooter like a stream of liquefied manure oozing out the back of a cow-barn. I seriously doubt if he even pauses to consider how stupid he sounds when he's blathering on. Then he painted a picture of a hell-scape that would be the result of a Biden victory: "You will lose your guns, your freedom. Suburbia will disappear and become a nightmare place to live with low income housing forced on you...", blah, blah, blah. He just prattles on and on, making it up as he goes. All of it is beyond exaggeration, well into fantasy-land. And, of course, his base of Q-Anon and other knuckle-draggers, just eats it up, screaming and chanting their approval.
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| Weaponizing politics worked for Hitler too. |
I told you about the annual Nazi Party gathering in Nuremburg, at the vast stadium known as the Reichsparteitaggelande, and I keep coming back around to the obvious similarities with what the Idiot inspires at his rallies. Hitler and Goebbles knew well that getting a vast throng all fired-up is a very effective way of managing them. And, once you have them chanting and screaming, you can pretty much feed them any-fucking-thing and they will gobble it down. The more emotional the appeal to their lowest instincts, the less likely they will put together the fact that they are actually his victims. True. It is a fact that these folks who make up his 'base' of screaming sycophants are driven by their emotions to the extent that they do not even realize he is using them and intends to take away any kind of safety nets that might help them down the road. He's admitted that he intends to destroy Social Security, by removing the payroll tax that funds it....and having it go bankrupt by 2023. Are the older followers in his base really okay with that? How about seniors all across the country? For our entire working lives we paid for the money we get back on Social Security....and he's going to steal that?
Meanwhile he'll be continuing to fill his own pockets at every possible opportunity...and, those of the oligarchs he panders to. With each passing day, it's becoming more and more clear that he intends to foment chaos and violence in the streets. His intent is to use that to sell himself as the "Law and Order president". The grand irony of all this is that HE IS THE ONE who is committing violence, by turning his back on the pandemic--which the Idiot and his Idiot Child, Pence both want to pretend is already behind us--and, BTW, oh, what a magnificent job the Idiot did in addressing it, as he never fails to mention, despite that it is utterly the inverse of what he did do. It is now readily apparent that the Idiot regards the people of this country as pawns on his chessboard. He will use them any way he sees as having a political advantage. If it means that some--or many--must die in order to accomplish his personal goal of achieving ultimate power, well, then, so be it, eh.
As of now, the Idiot is beginning to really ramp-up the dog-whistle hints to the far-right. By saying, for example, that the 17 y.o. kid who drove all the way to Kenosha with the explicit intention of hunting protesters, bringing with him a rifle he was forbidden by law to possess and carrying a warped sense of entitlement that it was a good thing he was doing, i.e. protecting the police. WTF? This kid crossed state lines, violated multiple laws regarding weapons, his age and his intent....and the Idiot has supported him by saying that he was being threatened and was just defending himself. If that is not a clarion call to the neo-fascists and all manner of militia types that it is okay to take to the streets, heavily armed and with the intent of shooting BLM or any leftist protesters who give them the opportunity......then I don't know what would be.
We need to recognize that the Idiot's strategy from now until the election....and, almost certainly, beyond...will be to foment violence in the streets of our cities, and then use that to try and convince the country that he's the only one who can establish Law and Order again. And....he's the one who poked the hornets' nest in the first place. We CANNOT be bamboozled by this sleight of hand bullshit. We need to call it out and we need to communicate a clear picture of how all of this is going down. If enough Americans are able to gain a clear sense of who this Idiot really is, I have to believe that they will both be motivated to vote......and maybe even to take up the cause of campaigning to boot his sorry ass out of a position where he stands to commit catastrophic damage to America and the American way of life.
Otherwise, we run the dire risk of waking up on November 4th and realizing that we have entered into the final phase of the Great American Nightmare.
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