OMG. Ingraham Gives Trump His Out On Ending Elections Gaffe, He Digs His Hole Deeper

Yup, that’s weird.

I before E, except after C, and in weird.

He also said Democracy is the theory that the common man knows what he wants, and deserves to get it good and hard. Remember when the book What’s the Matter With Kansas came out? For those who don’t know or have forgotten it was a treatise on why Americans voted against their own self-interests. It’s a more complicated thing to dig into than most people tend to do. But the Mencken quote I cited was and still is the answer. A more blunt, harsh way of looking at why so many people, especially those from places like where I grew up (rural/small town “real America” as GOPers love to put it) is too many people were raised in an environment of adults dissatisfied with their life and community who and filled with envy that others, and other communities were better off. Instead of a desire to find a way to improve things bitterness sets in, which turns to an “If I can’t have what I want then no one can.” As I said, I lived my first 26 years in a community with lots of such people, and later in life would live another ten (closer to eleven) years in a quite similar one. Way too many mostly white, “real Americans” who project their bitterness on “the other” who they call lazy when it’s THEM, countless “real Americans” are the ones who are lazy. The fact is few of us are born to circumstances where we can enjoy luxurious, or even highly comfortable lives without WORKING for it. Life comes far easier for a relatively small percentage of people than it does for most of us. If that doesn’t seem fair, well it isn’t but that’s how life is.

When I was growing up the mantra parents including my own drilled into their kids (and adults in general to youth) was what they described as the American dream was there for us, IF we were willing to put in the HARD WORK to get it. Tragically, a small group of rich old white men who dreamed of a return to the Robber Baron days this country went through found a way to politically market an idea of an “other”, people (mostly non-white) being handed “goodies” and an easy life on a silver platter and regular & poor white folks were paying the tab.

Then came Reagan and his seduction of the masses with his “supply side” tax cuts combined with gutting regulation and the “welfare state.” If you boil it down it was a “Something for nothing” promise and as I said it was seductive as hell. Many tens of millions of people swallowed up that bullshit LIE hook, line and sinker. They still do. All those regular “real American folk” believe the lie that by god they are entitled (and it’s mostly white people instead of non-whites) to a life of comfort without having to put in the work. AND that the reason life isn’t what they want because of “the other” getting what they feel is rightfully theirs.

Democrats and progressives advocate policies that provide a fair playing field. One that will provide equal OPPORTUNITY for all. To achieve that means enforcing rules, and even curtailing some benefits/passes some who have gotten but not earned (at least at the level they’ve been blessed with and enjoyed solely by virtue of things they had little or nothing to do with, or by using great advantage to attain even greater advantage) to create that level playing field. And, when warranted provide those who never had a fair shot some help getting to the starting line.

Conservatives/Republicans have as I and others so often say become more and more entrenched with an “I got mine. YOU just STFU and go away” attitude and those with power and wealth harness that attitude to get MORE of the great wealth and power they possess – by convincing average and poor, mostly white voters to swallow the something for nothing lie combined with “the other” is getting all the goodies and you “real Americans” are paying the tab.

The broken, divided country we have is the result.

Worse, in a particularly cruelly calculated thrust and continued twisting of the knife conservatives have spent forty plus years gutting public education and dumbing down the American public. What I’ve written requires the ability to understand nuance, and also clearly see different concepts and evaluate them by comparing those concepts. The gutting of k-12 education and jacking up the cost of college to make it unaffordable (or saddle people with so much debt they are too busy trying to get by to spend the time needed to regularly take a long and hard look at things) makes it extraordinarily difficult to break through to the masses just what has been going on.

But we HAVE to keep fighting the good fight. Now more so than ever. Conservatives, the handful who’ve been scheming for literally decades have created an environment where quirks of land with relatively few people living on it (look at that large swath of states west of the Mississippi through the mountain west time zone) that gives them outsized influence in Congress, their consolidation of media so too few outlets control the information the public is given, and now not just a judiciary but a SCOTUS ready, even eager to turn the clock back to Robber Barron day (or worse) and their dream is so close they can touch it now.

If I’m scaring anyone who’s read this then good. That’s my intention because we all should damn well be scared! We are the modern version of the small band of what was left of Washington’s Continental Army. Sitting on one side of the Delaware as the British were drawing up the terms for our surrender after the river froze and their superior army could march across and present them – or kill anyone who resisted. I won’t bore you even more with the details of that desperate river crossing and attack & rout of the Hessian garrison but it changed the course of the war and gave us a chance, and more importantly hope to keep fighting what would still be a years long battle.

In my mind and heart we are in just as dire straights, but we CAN prevail. Like the British conservatives were convinced we were beaten and drawing up terms for our surrender. Now they must be feeling like those Hessians – shock and surprise when the cannons began firing into Trenton. Now we have to, despite expecting great casualties take the attack in. But I say in old-school military style “Stout Hearts.” Because one of the marvels of Trenton was that while the Hessians (and the myth of British military superiority being unbeatable) suffered great losses (dead, wounded and captured) the American suffered only a few!

So let’s do what a more recent American General ordered in a speech he gave multiple times during WWII as he went between units – ‘Hold em by the nose and kick em in the ass!’

TRUMP…TO RUN U MUTHERFUCKERS PERMANENTLY. Got it baby huey.

I think the “love” he speaks of is for the “dear leader.”

Ah, yes, he loves democracy, as long as he gets the gold mine and we get the shaft.

Although Mencken is considered somewhat of a visionary, the time in which he wrote gave him a great deal of fodder: he had Wilson to deal with, and then to come only one year later Harding, followed by Coolidge for six long years, and then ohmigod, Hoover. The time in which he wrote and stewed on things was significantly a real morass of events, economic and cultural, with the 19th Amendment being passed, the aftermath of WWI, followed by the Roaring Twenties good and bad, and then the Great Depression. Mixed into all of this was that Mencken loved Nietzsche, hated all things to do with economics and really disliked participatory government. Hence his prediction of the ultimate ascendance to the presidency of a moron–because he thought voters were, quite frankly, dumbasses. And now we who are beginning finally to wake up and mobilize will have to prove Mencken wrong. And keep this democracy that Ben Franklin said was and would be glorious if we could keep it.
Not in agreement at this point with James Carville, BTW, that we are in essence riding for a fall, or in his words, a slaughter, and that Kamala will be “cut hard.” We shall see in the next few weeks or so is the educated guess as of now.

There’s a,simple blood test that supposedly directly diagnoses 90% of Alzheimer’s… Take it, Donnie Boy.

Actually I think what he is,trying to say is the Christians will control.the cou try so completely that no one else will.have any rights,,so evangelical Christians won’t need to.vote,except for High Priest, and then let the games begin.