Posted on 11/24/2024 3:37:58 AM PST by RoosterRedux
If dad is a drug addict or a sex criminal, acknowledging it would shatter the family. The protection of the secret becomes the family’s unifying endeavor. If anyone says anything, it might reveal that everyone is in on the secret. The sick family devotes all necessary energies to collusion—to mutual and self-censorship.
During the past four years, American politics has been dominated by a coalition each of whose members, like codependent kin, has its own investment in group integrity and the power it derives therefrom. The superrich, academia, Islamists, Marxists and the media have colluded to suppress the true and impose the false.
We know that their perfidies, lawfare, slander, blacklisting and civil persecution were practiced on conservatives and Republicans, particularly on Mr. Trump. But the suppression was targeted primarily at their own voters.
To remain unthreatened by reason, the liberal populace had to be convinced to endorse various lies and fantasies: Black Lives Matter, Israel’s perfidy, unlimited abortion as a woman’s right, men’s right to compete in women’s sports, the abolition of the police, Mr. Trump’s demonic power and so on.
Why would rational people vote to destroy their borders, their cities, their jobs and their children? For the same reason the sick family must tolerate its dysfunction: The co-opted liberal electorate was terrified that any deviation would result in destruction of its protective unit. As it would.
In the energy devoted to accommodating lies, the mind puts them in the same category as truth. The codependent pays a huge price from them: his self-respect. President Biden suffers cognitive decline; the administration and the legacy media hid that fact and suppressed its discussion. They did the same with the chaos at the border, crime, inflation, the putsch of Mr. Biden and his replacement through fiat.
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Love David Mamet... Such a mensch...
In his honor:
2024...
1. First prize: A new Cadillac presidential limo (Trump/Vance)
2. Second prize: A set of steak knives suitable for hormone-free beef and/or bear meat (RFK Jr.)
3. Third prize: You’re fired (Biden/Harris)
You’ve heard of him. He’s the famous playwright.
LOL.......cute.
“The dumbing down of America”. “I saw it on tv, so it must be true”. Ok, this has been going on for a long time, probably since snake oil, billboards, cigarette commercials, commercials in general, for ex: “margarine is better for you than butter, and eggs are going to give you a heart attack”. Or, “spray this on your dandelions, it’s harmless to everything else”. It’s still run amok propaganda. But I think a large part of our country is getting tired of all the bs and has become more skeptical of government, and media in general. Question authority, it may be right, but not necessarily.
It is the Left in America that is declining and falling. The Right is still saying things that the left did 30 years ago, but will not anymore. They no longer believe in free speech, in questioning authority, or even protecting the innocence of children. They’ve lost their desire to even live in a free and Biblically moral society, like they’ve sold their souls to the devil.
We hope. Those lefty turd rollers are even now, in a lame duck session, trying to make a mess of it.
One of the best movies written by Mamet is Oleanna (1994). It is about a college professor, crazed female student and the Red Guard out to destroy him. It is quite prescient. It predicted the excesses of #METOO and today’s left wing campus culture. Worth a watch.
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“He kept us out of war”
“The co-opted liberal electorate was terrified that any deviation would result in destruction of its protective unit. “
Democrats bought a lot of votes with government power. Whether it was using government to punish enemies, a contract, a job, a welfare check or an abortion, Dems bought their votes and loyalty. Unfortunately for them inflation and the cost of living undermined the entire scheme.
It’s curious that Dems under estimated the backlash coming to open borders and the LGBLT agenda. To Dems, I bet they thought it was just another expansion of coalition which always worked for them before. They thought wrong.
Nothing is beneath them. Prying the W’s from typewriters when George W. Bush became President was petty but is about what you’d expect from such lowlifes. Starting a war—even a nuclear war—to sabotage the incoming Trump Administration is also not beneath them. Nothing is.
Yes, and Trump can’t get in the White House soon enough.
The historical reference flew right over your head as I knew it would
“He kept us out of war” was Woodrow Wilson’s campaign slogan in 2016.
On April 6, 1917 we were at war with Germany and were sending troops to Europe.
See if you get this one
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
:^)
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