It appears that we Democrats may be as delusional as Republicans, in this one sense:
I see very little awareness among Democrats that the delusional belief in The Big Lie that the election was stolen by majorities of registered Republicans is going to lead to real danger to the republic.
I will never forget being in Moscow just before the attack on the ‘Russian White House’ that houses the Duma (Russian national legislature).
My host poo-pooed my warnings that something major was about to happen, as there were two different perceptions of reality in that country and the two fact-worlds had reached an impasse.
I had initially been almost relieved to see the terrible attack on 1/6 in one sense only: I believed that it was healthy that the boil had been lanced, and the anti-democratic nature of the Trumpist movement had been finally fully unmasked. I assumed that this would take the energy out of that movement sufficiently to neuter it.
I was wrong.
A society divided into two camps with completely different understandings of its government’s basic legitimacy cannot long endure. We are headed down a path of collision that may well lead to a cataclysm.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Krishnamurti
I hope that I am not rash in optimistically assuming that today’s DoJ is aggressively investigating the behavior of Donald Trump and the GOP before, during, and after the events of 6-Jan-2021. Surely we have learned that Congress cannot investigate itself.
Part of the solution is to absolutely demand that mainstream media be more responsible in its reporting.
Let me offer an example of a perniciously dangerous distortion that has been being repeated nightly without elaboration for months now: “More than 70% of Republican voters still support Donald Trump” (or “… believe election results were manipulated”, etc).
This is perhaps true on the face of it. What these pieces do not report is what share of the total electorate this number represents. It is true that racist, seditionist, and violent beliefs are taking over the GOP. It is also true that an increasingly small number of Americans self-identify with the GOP.
I don’t doubt that 95% of Jimmy Swaggart’s followers believe that Darwin’s theory of evolution should be excluded from school textbooks. That factoid, while true, has essentially zero predictive ability about public policy.
A large percentage of a small number is still a small number.
“I’m going to be reinstated as president AND become Speaker of the House” is all the proof you need that the family of raccoons living inside Donald Trump’s head have completely chewed through the wires. Jeff Tiedrich
We ignore that infestation at our extreme peril.
FOX and CNN refused to air the Degenerate Bloviator’s Big Lie speech to North Carolina pukes last night. Will wonders never cease.
Did the Bloated Tick really wear his pants backwards last night?
The video tape shows no zipper in front and thigh creases. WTF?
I believe CSPAN did air it.