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The Grandchildren’s Predicament [1]
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Date: 2025-01-06
By David Glenn Cox
In the final analysis; it’s no one’s fault but our own. We have little excuse because there was so little need. We weren’t in an economic upheaval or locked in a protracted losing war. I’ve been rereading, “Inside the Third Reich” by Albert Speer. Germany had been through all of those things. Der Fuhrer didn’t show up out of nowhere. He was a maniacal product of his times. The bubbling of centuries of prejudice and wrong, paired with 19th century politics and 20th Century technology.
Look what happened. What’s our excuse? On this day Donald Trump broke America. We have turned a corner and can never go back to the America of January 5th. Four years ago, Americans said, “Oh God Help us!” and voted for Joe Biden by a wide margin. They were tired of the constant petulant struggle and strife of the orange mad man. What would he say next? What might he likely do next?
Four years later, here we are. How can you explain it? Americans seem nice enough people when you meet them in public, how can you explain it? Let me take a shot at it. Currently, Walmart is running a television commercial that starts with a pretty girl. When she smiles there is a gap between her front teeth you could drive a Buick through. (Accident? Coincidence? Or visual stimuli?) Then a Walmart logo, then a psychotic looking guy. Smiling like his medications not working anymore. Then a Walmart logo and then another big smiley face, then Walmart. All augmented by a nursery rhyme beat attractive to most dull witted six-year-olds with lyrics from a child’s preschool Golden Book.
Talk about your lowest common denominator. We’re at Hypnotoad level and falling. Idiocrasy was never meant as a road map or a documentary.
How would Winston Smith ever reach them? “Chocolate ration? What’s that? I like chocolate.” Degraded through technology to believe anything or not to believe anything. If the message interferes with your way of thinking, simply discard it, it must be false. Something tells me the kitchen is on fire, but I don’t believe it! It’s all a plot set by our enemies to test us. God put those dinosaur bones there! He wanted you to find them to test Your faith in him! Don’t fail him. Don’t let God down. He went to a lot a of trouble for you.
The American people are primed to believe almost anything. You could take the cheesiest UFO prop from Hollywood and put two guys in rubber suits and masks. And 50% of the public would believe it. If they can convince people, the earth is flat despite centuries of actual accrued data. Is the moon flat? “No.” Is the sun flat? “No.” Are any of the other planets flat? “No.” Is the Earth flat? “Yes.” Any missing persons reports from those last seen standing near the edge?
Putting the man in charge who tried to steal the election. The man who fomented rebellion against the very people he’d sworn an oath to defend. He got people killed and sent to prison for long stretches. Boobs, idiots, followers stupid enough to listen to a con man, losing their homes, cars and marriages. So, do you know what we did next? We made him our leader. History doesn’t rhyme it hits like high balling freight train. After Adolf went to prison for trying to overthrow his government, he became Der Fuhrer. Why would anyone think the end result would be any different in this country?
A Chinese ship just dragged its anchor across an undersea communications cable. Cutting off Taiwan just like the Russian ship did in the Baltic last week. A purposeful hostile act and a possible precursor to war. Russia is at the end of its tether. Her back is broken economically. Russians are starting to line up in the streets for food. You know what that means, don’t you? Last ditch, melting the drain pipes into bullets. An animal is most dangerous when cornered and sees no way out.
Like a dilatant, the King whistles a happy tune. Offering to solve the war in a single day. Unaware, it’s too late for that. At this stage of the war, with its refineries in flames and its economy in freefall. A pretty piece of paper with a colored wax seal and a silk ribbon isn’t going to be near good enough. This is win or die for Russia.
China also has a demographic problem. Because of China’s famous one child policy, very soon there will be a shortage of men of military age. It forces on China the question. “If we’re serious about doing this thing maybe, we better go do it now?” But Taiwan is China’s whipping boy. Whenever things go south in Beijing, and they need a distraction, Taiwan is going to catch it. If the Chinese were to invade and subjugate Taiwan, what would they gain by strangling an economic engine like Taiwan? Didn’t they learn anything from Hong Kong? They have enough problems now. But it’s useful propaganda to create a handy enemy to shake my angry fist at!
Do you see the parallel? “The King plans to deport millions!” No, they will deport thousands and make it look like millions. They aren’t serious, they just want to light a fire under the hoosters to convince them they are under some sort of threat and had better shake an angry fist too.
They vote against themselves. They vote against their Unions. They vote against their children. They vote against their own religious principles and have no qualms about it. Is it too late to short circuit history? Is it still possible to right the load and pull the truck back onto the roadway without tipping? What else can wake the addled, but trauma? Where else but through hardship can the erudite receive a proper education?
And so, with the American economy outperforming the rest of the world. The American voter was convinced the economy was in a slump. The most dangerous time in American history since the Cuban Missile Crisis and the American voting public put King Donald the Turd in charge.
These things happen sometimes, and you can’t take it personally. Empires come and go and become decadent and lazy. The public merchants become fat and indolent. The voter learns to believe what he’s told and ask no questions. Just vote like Daddy does.
“This just into our Fox News room; The King announced today he is increasing all Chocolate rations from three quarters of a cup to two-thirds of a cup, and at the same price too!” The King is willing to suffer this financial hardship just to show us. How much he really loves us.
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand-fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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