To take one obvious example, World War 2 was a very tough period in America. We had millions of men fighting overseas and dying, rationing stateside, and pervasive uncertainty and doubt.
But even though our government was no doubt sometimes stupid, at times in all places and all contexts, I dont think anyone doubted that FDR—his many enumerable faults notwithstanding—loved America and its peoples—plural intentional—and that he was fighting to win.
In this undeclared war, we are more or less literally being attacked BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENTS—plural again intended—and find ourselves equally fighting the more or less reified, concretized, and weaponized forces of madness It is far beyond mere stupidity.
Our enemies are educated, situationally competent, and living next door to us.
This is a new kind of fight. In my view, if Trump relinquishes power for any reason, we will never have a fair election again, This is far, far beyond “the truth is in the middle”, and “all views have at least some merit”.
It is between fallible but intact reality testing and outright ideational hallucination; it is between wholesome dialogue, and political violence; it is between rule of law and outright fascism.
Let us all pray sanity prevails. It will take a fight, but this is the only fight worth any of our energy right now.
The enemies of sanity do not want “justice”. Black people and their lives are a stage prop for their theater, mere tools to be cast aside and ignored whenever their usefulness is at an end.
And the means right now is an engineered economic disaster, and voter fraud on a scale never before attempted.
I keep trying to distract myself, to back away, but continue failing. Every morning when I wake up I wonder: how can SO MANY people, the ones caught on the middle, be so fucking stupid? Figuratively and sometimes damn near literally, I keep pinching myself.
Where is the sanity? Trump gets it, as do many others, but why has everyone not figured this game put yet? I do not get it.
I know I repeat myself often, but I still seem to be in some degree of psychological shock.