Why do every single one of these government officials sound like they’re hysterically defending themselves with frantic lies and irrelevancies?
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been … we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
In case the BlueSky post disappears:
Stephen Miller: “All these demonstrators that you’ve seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been … we’re gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old.”
This’ll certainly appeal to some folks through confirmation bias, but it’s ridiculous on its face, in my estimation. This is important, as are all the other utterances of Miller and other members of the Trump Administration, because the more such unsupported ludicrous claims are made, the more undecided and even conservative citizens will add together all the evidence and come to the conclusion that this Administration, for the good of the country, should be replaced – even possibly before the next election.
This is the painful process of realizing a major political party is falling into evil. Not supernatural evil – I’m an agnostic – but the simple human evil that, as we observed in Cambodia, the Soviet Union, Japan, and, yes, Germany, is so horrific that we don’t need supernatural evil to be convinced that it’s wrong. Not that the Republicans have achieved anything like those examples, but they’re walking down that path. An important set of cobblestones in that path is arrogance, an arrogance convinced that anything it does is justified by its goal – and, in this case, backed up by God.
Never mind they never talk to the Divine, objectively speaking.
This may turn out to be a very hard path to tread, although I hope not. A key part of the Republican Party’s path is information compartmentalization, which means keeping voters from knowing and understanding the wrong things perpetrated by the Party’s leaders. One of the Republicans’ hurdles is the Bible, which seeks to teach good, to its credit, even if it’s often twisted into something else entirely. Add to that the bloviating, mendacious braggarts making up their ranks, frantic to grasp after fame and power. The end result is that they’ll strangle themselves in all likelihood.
But it doesn’t help that the Democrats have managed the mean feat of being even less popular than the Republicans, due to a variety of positions and methods which have added up to the general impression that Democrats are no longer connected to the working class or even the technocrats, but to ideological warriors holding bizarre beliefs and positions such as identitarianism. I think there’s a yawning abyss for one or more new political parties. Not Elon Musk’s threatened new party, because that would turn out to be a vehicle for his wacky ideas and would not appeal to enough independents, but parties much like that of forty years ago – willing to compromise, aware & wary of positions smacking of arrogance and autocracy, etc. And humble!
Let’s hope those parties form.
