If you pay any attention to the news you already know that the conservative freak-show, CPAC, is underway in Dallas. And, it really is an over-the-top gathering of those who love Trump's lies, his bombast and his desire to be an overlord. They overwhelmingly believe that the 2020 election was, as he endlessly lies, stolen. Despite mountains of hard evidence that it was NOT, they would rather believe a man who lies as easily as most of us breathe. So, he used his speech to this gathering of broken people to lie again and again....about every damn thing. He's an idiot, but he's THEIR idiot and a hero of the masses....despite all indications that he could give a crap about the 'little people', and has just learned how to manipulate them and get them to think he's on their side against the world.
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| This is the face of Evil in our time. |
As one would expect, the speakers are all pushing their listeners to reject vaccination, and the audience is cheering when they wax effusive about how evil it is to ask people to get one. This is being compared, rather predictably, by Moron Taylor Green, as akin to what the Nazis did during the Third Reich. One blithering idiot, Madison Cawthorn, tried to sell the idea that vaxxers coming to peoples' doors might mean they would, "...take your Bible,".
You have to wonder how stupid he thinks conservatives really are. So, somebody is going to knock on your door and tell you to hand over your Bible, and by the way if you get don't get vaccinated you will end-up in Auschwitz. I don't know if there is a descriptive pejorative lower than, 'Clown Show', but if there is, it would be applicable here.
So, imagine that you live in a parallel universe. One day the authorities announce that there is a pestilence loose on the planet that will kill millions of humans. It is invisible, but it most certainly is putting people in dire distress and they're dying in droves. Then an expert on such diseases announces that vaccines have been developed and if you just go get one you won't die...at least not from this rapidly growing menace. So, people line-up by the millions and get this 'miracle' shot, and even a follow-up....and, it so happens that the expert was right....people who have this shot are no longer ending up in hospitals and dying. It really is almost miraculous. But, there are some nattering nabobs in the population who have decided that the vaccine is actually a plot to take over the planet. Once you get the shot(s), you have nanobots in your bloodstream and the government now has full control over what you think and do. Eeeeegads!
But, those who listen and refuse the shots continue to get sick and die. Many of them, sadly, express their regret that they didn't listen to the experts and get the shot....even as they are dying.
So, one must wonder what the agenda is on the part of those who are spreading false information about the shots. Are they seriously okay with letting people DIE because of their inability to trust science? How is that not the quintessence of EVIL? To do something consciously that you know will get people sick and even kill them, is, in fact, a good working definition of the concept of 'evil'.
This is one more occasion where I am drawn back to Chris Hedges previously quoted essay, "Welcome to the Asylum", because it bears repeating. In his opening paragraph, he quotes the poet Louis-Ferdinand Celine, "At times when the page is turning, when history brings all the nuts together, opens its Epic Dance Halls! hats and heads in the whirlwind! Panties overboard!"
And, this is precisely what you are watching happen at CPAC. Insanity is operating at a frenetic level in plain view of the world. People are cheering for speakers who are promoting suicide by telling listeners that vaccinations are a hoax designed to control them.
A second even darker theme is being heavily promoted as well: that Donald J. Fucking Idiot will be reinstalled in the Oval Office next month. The whacko pillow guy, Lindell, along with the ding-dong pesudo lawyer Sydney Powell, and so many others are all certain that there will be some miraculous shift that will cause this to happen. Of course, there is no legal means of making this so. There just isn't. But, since when do whackos like Powell and clown-prince Rudy Giuliani, stop at facts? Never going to happen.
So, what emerges out of this insanity is the idea of a repeat of January 6th but on a more organized and more lethal level. There are Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, neo-Nazis, and many more...who would absolutely be willing to take over the government by violent coup-d'etat. Oh, yes they would just love to do that, all the while believing that they are in the 'right' to do so.
As the title of this piece implies, we are tip-toeing in some very dangerous territory. If the government and people across the nation do not accept that these forces for evil are multiplying and gaining currency as they do, we could be in for a situation that directly mirrors what happened in Germany in the 30s. Many Germans were taken by surprise when Hitler suddenly emerged as Chancellor. The Nazis never did hold a majority in their congress, the Reichstag. But, they knew how to maneuver and Hitler sucked up to Hindenburg all the while knowing the old war horse was going to die soon.
So, a country renowned for it's contributions to science, philosophy, literature, art and religion...became a totalitarian nightmare state in very short order. Suddenly, it was worth your freedom and even your life to speak against the regime. You might easily disappear into the 'Nacht und Nebel', the 'Night and Fog' of the terror state. Once the Gestapo had you in their sights it was terrifying, not merely for you, but for your family, friends and even your community. Sippenhaft was a Gestapo policy that means 'clan arrest' and so even your loved ones could end up in Dachau or a similar camp. In almost no time at all, there were KZs, Konzentration Lager, all over Germany. We hear about the huge camps, like Auschwitz-Birkenau, but there were approximately 2500 smaller camps that constituted a 'feeder system' for the large death camps. It was a true nightmare.
And, we want to believe that nothing like that could ever happen here. In fact, most Americans cling somewhat desperately to the concept of American exceptionalism, that means such bad things might happen to a lot of countries....but, no way could that ever happen in the good ol' USA.
I am telling you here and now that this is NOT TRUE. Not only could it happen here, we are well on the way to it happening. The idiots who believe in QAnon and worship the most corrupt and immoral leader to ever emerge in American politics, also do not think it's wrong to steal elections, even if you need to do illegal and immoral deeds to make it happen. They are not just so stupid that they deny science and believe in the Idiot's lies, they are utterly without morals that demand any level of honesty, kindness, service to the greater community and are, on top of it all, devoted to the idea of White Supremacy. Oh, yes, they are. Although most of them would deny it, it's just a fact that has been proven over and over again by their actions in the near past.
TIME TO WAKE UP AMERICA! Never mind smelling the coffee, you need to smell the rot that is consuming the core of conservative America. You need to make your voices heard and to get engaged. The time is past when we can watch what is happening in the halls of congress and simply shake our heads. There needs to be a sense that this is a genuine EMERGENCY and keep it coupled to the facts of the matter.
1. Conservative far-right Americans are willing to kill democracy. No exaggeration at all!!!
2. They will do anything, legal, illegal, immoral and even violent...to do this and gain control of the country, despite being a minority.
3. Large numbers of these people are racist, mysogynist, anti-Semitic, anti-LBGTQ, and and are eager to inflict their beliefs on all others.
4. This is an existential crisis. Yes, it means that the life of our democratic republic is in dire danger.
And, if you don't see this, or worse yet, if you believe ANY of the crap that the conservatives are now pedaling, then you are a part of the problem.
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