It's going to be a hard nut to swallow, as this man did, for those in the GOP 'power' group to one day sit back and come to the realization that it's always all been a lie.
The two guys that were sentenced today cried in court. Maybe it's callous of me, but I find that hilarious given how they presented themselves as such tough guys.
The second guy, Zach R., straight up blamed Trump for everything, so yeah....I think the realization you describe is setting in for some of these folks. Just a bit late though.
And people are letting politics get in the way of a working government. It honestly no more matters whether anyone has a good bill or is championing some just cause of the people. It's now about hate and division between the two major parties that has the country in a complete governmental gridlock.
Yup. It's been fascinating to read the accounts of MAGA faithful getting elected to local government positions, but then struggling to do the actual work of running the government. I've been in those types of jobs before and they're incredibly tedious, repetitive, and boring (at least for me), but they have to be done to keep things like road repairs and the like going.
Not that long ago we had some MAGA people running for local positions and some of them were on a local AM radio show going on and on about abortion, gays, guns, Bibles in schools, immigration, etc. So I called in and asked why they were talking about those things given how the positions they were running for had no say in any of them. They hung up on me and the host apologized for the call screener "letting a liberal in".
This new attitude came from none other than Donald John Trump. He has foisted upon a very sizeable segment of the Republican organization this new attitude of hate and division and everything has to be my way or no way. That's not what the U.S. has ever looked for in its presidential leadership. But now we have it and it just seems to be taking forever for people to come to their senses as to what all they're being told.
That's an interesting question, because a lot of liberal commenters, pundits, and bloggers are saying the GOP started down this road a long time ago and Trump just took it to the next obvious level.
Personally, I see it as primarily (but not exclusively) a result of the intersection of right-wing media and a voter base that tends to be very tribal and lacking in critical thinking skills. As we found out from Dominion's suit against Fox News, FN knew what they were telling their viewers wasn't true but they also knew those viewers would bail on them if they told them the truth. They pretty much said (internally) outright "If we stop telling them what they want to hear and start telling them the truth, they'll leave".
It's gotten so bad that now the right-wing lives in a completely different reality than the rest of us.
There is no 'undeniable evidence' that the 2020 election was any different than any other, as to its validity. There aren't now, nor were there ever, any 'hundreds of thousands' of uncounted Republican ballots left out anywhere. And the nation is not being run by Marxist fascists, but by people who were duly elected by the people to be where they are, doing what they're doing. The U.S. will not be destroyed if we don't elect what's his name the blabber mouth, as president again. We will endure for a time with a democratically elected government of the people, for the people. But that clause has never meant or inferred that everyone gets their way all the time. It's a government of the majority of us. Elected by, supported by a majority of the people.
There ya' go, Exhibit A....the right-wing alternate reality covers waaaaaaay more areas than it used to.
It wasn't ever designed to allow someone who only has some small core of rabid followers to reach the position of power. It's the voice of the people and I'm confident that the people were tired of Trump's old song and dance routine of being victimized and everything weaponized against him. They wanted a sane and reasonable leader!! Sadly, the only alternative, when it got down to making the final choice, was Joe Biden. He won because most everyone who's really ever dealt with Trump can't stand the man. The only people it seems who can, are those getting rich off of him and his charade.
Very, very well put and I fully agree.
The 2020 election was as accurate and valid as any election we've had in the last 40 years. It's time for everyone to accept that the lies aren't coming from anyone but the orange man.
Unfortunately I think that's highly doubtful. A lot of them are so wedded to the alternate reality that it would likely be psychologically traumatic for them to leave it, similar to leaving a cult.
Now, has Pres. Biden done something untoward with his son's work? I haven't seen any evidence of that as yet. Again, the GOP now for over two years keeps holding out the carrot, "It's coming! It's going to be the next big reveal!!! Stay tuned we're going to find that evidence if it takes us 50 lifetimes and a 1,000 presidencies. ROFL!!!! These guys got nothing! They're just upset that they aren't able to clear their golden boy and are really frustrated that they can't prove that Pres. Biden is just as crooked as their boy is. And to stand out here looking in, it's desperately sad what has become of our politics.
They know all that and they're not stupid people either. They know their loyal voters will vote R no matter what as will loyal D voters. Their targets are the "undecided voters" who don't really pay much attention to politics. If they can get things like "Biden under investigation", "Biden accused of taking bribes", or "Biden crime family" into the news cycle, they know some of those undecideds won't look beyond the headlines and will just assume Biden is corrupt.
IOW, it doesn't matter if the narrative is true, it just has to be out there.
BTW, excellent post! I very much appreciate the thought and effort you put into it.
