Mark Twain
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Dear Fred,
I have a busy day but want to expand/focus an idea I've conjured in other, related contexts.
People on the left... people in "The Resistance"... people sickened by Trump's dismantlement of all that is good... are not clear about our linchpin difficulty.
There can be no reconciliation with people who are worshipful of "Fake News," "Alternative Facts," "Conspiracy Theories" --- in a word, they adore Falsehood.
Although quixotic efforts to communicate with "these people" are as admirable as Don Quixote himself, there can be no real discussion with those who have taken leave of their senses, people like T. L. D and A.S. whose default rhetoric is to accuse Snopes of left-wing political propaganda committed to the falsification of facts.
This madness (and I have long considered the two parallel meanings of "mad" a Godsend) is a "fever" that must burn itself out.
Such madness sees Trump as an ordained agent of God, at bottom a sacrilegious corruption of Christianity.
In effect, true believers straddle God-Truth's mouth and shit in it.
These same believers will be more outraged at my statement of this truth than the fact that they enact it.
Tryanny's Best Kept Secret: It's All About Epistemology
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It remains an open question whether "The Electoral College Minority" that put Trump in power wants to establish a fascist regime. (If Democrats do not get the house back in November, the smart money bets on Trump morphing into Mussolini.
Trump's Most Egregious, In-Your-Face Fascist Declaration: "We're Going To Have To Do Things..."
Lamentably, Trump's "Electoral College Minority" is so divorced from reality, so impervious to Factuality, that they don't even know they're "sleeping with Satan," The Lord of Lies. (I realize that my use of "the Satan metaphor" demonizes the other and is therefore counterproductive.)
Even so, contemporary America is embedded in a matrix of falsehood "from sea to shining sea" and "friends of facts" can no longer speak truth without repercussions worse than the benefits.
Alan: This Orwell quote is probably apocryphal.
I grew suspicious of it authenticity when "Orwell" used the word "further" where "farther" is lexially correct.
George Orwell
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Alan: When contemplating this question, how many Trumpistas' "first thought" is His Despicability?
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