Consider:
(1) A few years back, the public was over 90% in favor of universal background checks for gun purchase. Even NRA members were 75% in favor. What was the legislative result? Essentially nil.
(2) The popularity of the U. S. Congress prior to the 2016 election was at an all-time low. Who did the public blame at election time? Not the obstructionist GOP apparently. They now control both houses.
(3) During the campaign for nomination and for president, Trump’s approval numbers prior to the election were so low with both Democrats and Republicans that many pundits foresaw the whole GOP slate going down to defeat. Result: the GOP now has all three branches of the federal government in hand, along with nearly 2/3 of the states.

Now that we are truly living in a conservative fantasyland where it will soon be 1950 again (and heading for 1850?), I suggest that the national capital be moved to Hollywood.

Locally (here in W MIchigan) the conservative rallying cry is that people have had enough of the years’-long tradition of obstructionism by the Democratic Party.

Kasich, the so called adult in the Republican room, was lecturing the other day echoing what a lot of people have been saying, that everyone should just start getting along. Never mind that he’s been pretty passive when it comes to dismantling the wingnut propaganda machine that effectively turns brains into flavorless liquid jello.

It’s as though he stood by watching as his cohort were happily pushing people over the edge of a cliff. And now, when they’re half way down, he says “oops” leans over the edge, and yells at them to stop falling and just grow up.

When they finally go splat at the bottom, you just know he’ll straighten up and say, “Serves ’em right! They should have listened to me.”

Rationality is always correct. But when the mob starts to riot, and they begin burning down the stores that support the community, rational people are left pissing in the wind.

Without language, there is no accountability, no standard of truth. If Trump never says anything concrete, he never has to do anything concrete. If Trump never makes a statement of commitment, Trump supporters never have to confront what they really voted for. If his promises are vague to the point of opacity, Trump cannot be criticised for breaking them. If every sloppy lie (ie: “Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower … This is McCarthyism!”) can be explained away as a “generality” or “just a joke” because of “quotes”, then he can literally say anything with impunity. Trump can rend immigrant families in the name of “heart”, destroy healthcare in the name of “life”, purge minority voters in the name of “justice”, and roll back women’s autonomy in the name of “freedom”. The constitution? Probably sarcastic. There are “quotes” all over that thing!

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https://goo.gl/syFcMW

Basically, the current president talks a good deal but never says anything – and since his positions are as solid as liquid Jello (but not as flavorful) his supporters will never be disappointed. Rational people – entirely different story.

Which suggests to me that a significant portion of people, however they feel about individual policies, mainly just want to burn it all down.

Meanwhile, as Colbert pointed out last night, Trump is more concerned with his TV ratings. And who knows, we may have come to the point where despite all, what people care about most is celebrity anyway.

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