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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
So, in your scenario, if Trump had found a sympathizer in the Georgia Secretary of State, and maybe a couple of others in the Justice Department, the military would have stepped in and stopped the steal? Really? Maybe, maybe not. I don’t know and you don’t either. But the problem with the delusionally arrogant is that, no matter how many times they are proven wrong, they are still 100% right about everything else all the time, and everyone who disagrees is a hair-on-fire hysterical alarmist in an echo chamber. And by they time the delusionally arrogant are proven wrong yet again, and offer their weak, self-serving mea culpas, it is too late. COVID is killing 2,000 people a day, not 2,000 total. Roe v. Wade is dead and the right to gay marriage is not far behind.
I once told Sebastian about my uncle who was so overtly racist that he disowned his daughter because she married a successful black man. I noted that my uncle faced essentially no personal or professional consequences in his little Greenwich, CT world for his overt racism. Sebastian nonetheless insisted that this was not the case, that this type of overt racism was Simply. Not. Tolerated. I shared this story with my cousin and her husband, and her husband said, “Do you know how many white people have explained to me over the years how the overt racism I personally experienced did not actually exist?”
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Yeah, and for years I carped here about how the country was devolving and we'd see civil disobedience and loss of control by authorities because even the dumbest fuckers out there realized they were being lied to and economic neoliberalism by its very design viewed the losers in the modern economy as nothing more than necessary collateral damage.
People told me that was nuts. Adder cited Adam Smith about how the destruction of one set of workers leads to more jobs for others, the most facile response one could muster in reply to such a charge.
I was correct. Trump came along like a pied piper and led Grievance Nation to become a huge political power that is now imperiling democracy. I didn't see that, but it's hardly surprising they eventually found a leader.
But so what? So I predicted the future. It's not like anyone was going to do anything about it. You think if Trump hadn't come along the problems wouldn't arise? He's a symptom, not a cause. Again, symptom, not cause.
And me being right is worth about as much as you being right that Trump would try to thwart the will of the people. What did anyone do about it? Nothing. The systems held and his coup failed, as would always be the case.
But what remains is important. Those angry fuckers of Grievance Nation aren't going anywhere. Or worse, they're amassing behind DeSantis, who can actually get things they like done.
