Simple narratives

Democrats always want simple narratives.  The problem is, the world is not simple.  Inherently, then, logically, then, they will be perceiving much of reality incorrectly–which is to say incompletely–most of the time.

I don’t want to make saints of Republicans, but by and large anyone who goes through the indoctrination everywhere in our schools has to find their way back to sanity through thought, learning, and careful observation.  That makes Republicans largely a self selecting group, although there are no doubt legacy Republicans and issue Republicans out there in large numbers too.

And here is what I THINK they are thinking with respect to this whole COVID fiasco: let’s make it as bad as possible, pretend it was necessary, then blame the whole thing on Trump.  It also wouldn’t hurt if they could drag it out long enough that mail in votes become more viable as a general solution.  Mail in ballots seem to have been the weapon of choice in what I think was the pretty obvious fraud in the last election.

Simple minded, you say?  Yes.  Cynical in the extreme?  No doubt.  Feasible?  Yes, I would say it is.  It would not be with an alert, informed, and self respecting electorate, but large swathes of our populace have become complacent, ignorant, groveling fools.  The worse their cult gets, the more they want to remain in it.

I can’t say it won’t work, although this particular year they have a river of things to swim against, and I think most betting people would and should figure on HUGE Republican advances in November, if we can keep the elections mostly clean.

But on the other hand, we seem to have elected Barack Hussein Obama twice (I say seem, because it’s impossible to know now how pervasive the fraud was), despite hardly knowing the first fucking thing about him, other than that both of his fathers were Muslims–and that his mother at least had sex with one of them and married the other–and that one of his closest mentors in middle and high school was a card carrying Communist, drug dealer, and pornographer.

All that is in the rear view mirror for most.  Me, I don’t forget.  Apparently that is a Moon in Scorpio thing.  I haven’t forgotten the Vietnam War, or the creation of the Great Depression, or the machinations of the Federal Reserve, along with much else.