Joe Biden needs a new speech writer, a guy named Tom Cleaver. Man, this a killer, clarion call to the barricades if ever there was one, a beautiful jolt of righteous reality that the delirious patient Democracy badly needed.
The great H.L Mencken, the journalist who described himself as "absolutely devoid of what is called religious feeli…
Joe Biden needs a new speech writer, a guy named Tom Cleaver. Man, this a killer, clarion call to the barricades if ever there was one, a beautiful jolt of righteous reality that the delirious patient Democracy badly needed.
The great H.L Mencken, the journalist who described himself as "absolutely devoid of what is called religious feeling," once said "Faith maybe defined as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable." What could be more implausible than the idea that Trump could have a vision of anything acceptable to the average American. But as you make the case in this piece, Americans are suckers for demagogues because their perceptions are whacked. That's how Trump got elected. The fantasy that a lying fascist pig like Trump "has a vision for the future," a delusion that 51% of Americans illogically believe, despite the Tangerine Turd's actual record, is proof of Mencken's point that "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." Trump, for example, has made millions in donations as evidence that he fits Mencken's description of the demagogue-- "one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
In short, all the suffering that has ensued in the wake of the 2016 election is the consequence of voters whose minds are out of alignment with reality and locked into an almost "religious" obsession with the toxic gas passing from the fat ass of a windbag elevated to the status of a God by a degenerate political party that has gone totally fascist. In Delaware, where I live, not far from Trump's sparring partner, the territory below the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and especially the southernmost county of the state, is now known as Trump Country. Down there, to borrow Bob Dylan's line, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." It blows hard and it blows RIGHT, right across the green sky and over the blue grass with a rude vengeance and up the sorry asses of the Delamorons, who like the folks you describe in LA talk "about things that Do Not Exist In Reality."
These are the people who in the polls believe Trump "has a vision for the future." Perhaps because of some major fault in our educational system, these saps have mistaken the word "vision" for "agenda," specifically in Trump's case, one that doesn't include the words "democracy," or "equality," or "ecology," or any other word that corresponds to what's pertinent to the crisis we face today. Trump doesn't even care about America, the Constitution and definitely not the welfare of the dopes who send him millions of dollars to fund his narcissistic insanity. All Trump cares about is himself. Even the rest of America's fascist billionaire class will admit that. The question now is, will Joe jump into the ring and mobilize what Sheldon Wolin called the party of "inauthentic opposition," and "hammer the traitors to America they are? Repeatedly?"
As Trump infamously says, "We'll have to wait and see." But here's hoping, and although H.L. would disapprove, praying. This is Joe Biden's Harry Truman-FDR-Abraham Lincoln-save Democracy moment, and he's gonna need all the help he can get. "Give 'em Hell," Joe!
it's also good to mention that, in fact, TFF NEVER got anything like 51% of the votes cast in 2016. he didn't even get a majority. with the Electoral College STILL embracing the winner-take-all bullshit that still prevails in almost every state, we're dealing with...what is it it? six states? eight states?
the "vision for the future" thing I see and hear a lot. but talking about Biden's physical performance being in any way worse than TFF's is pretty fucking, uhhh.....risible.
and I LOVE seeing Sheldon Wolin's name. anywhere. why don't more people know it?
Joe Biden needs a new speech writer, a guy named Tom Cleaver. Man, this a killer, clarion call to the barricades if ever there was one, a beautiful jolt of righteous reality that the delirious patient Democracy badly needed.
The great H.L Mencken, the journalist who described himself as "absolutely devoid of what is called religious feeling," once said "Faith maybe defined as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable." What could be more implausible than the idea that Trump could have a vision of anything acceptable to the average American. But as you make the case in this piece, Americans are suckers for demagogues because their perceptions are whacked. That's how Trump got elected. The fantasy that a lying fascist pig like Trump "has a vision for the future," a delusion that 51% of Americans illogically believe, despite the Tangerine Turd's actual record, is proof of Mencken's point that "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." Trump, for example, has made millions in donations as evidence that he fits Mencken's description of the demagogue-- "one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
In short, all the suffering that has ensued in the wake of the 2016 election is the consequence of voters whose minds are out of alignment with reality and locked into an almost "religious" obsession with the toxic gas passing from the fat ass of a windbag elevated to the status of a God by a degenerate political party that has gone totally fascist. In Delaware, where I live, not far from Trump's sparring partner, the territory below the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and especially the southernmost county of the state, is now known as Trump Country. Down there, to borrow Bob Dylan's line, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." It blows hard and it blows RIGHT, right across the green sky and over the blue grass with a rude vengeance and up the sorry asses of the Delamorons, who like the folks you describe in LA talk "about things that Do Not Exist In Reality."
These are the people who in the polls believe Trump "has a vision for the future." Perhaps because of some major fault in our educational system, these saps have mistaken the word "vision" for "agenda," specifically in Trump's case, one that doesn't include the words "democracy," or "equality," or "ecology," or any other word that corresponds to what's pertinent to the crisis we face today. Trump doesn't even care about America, the Constitution and definitely not the welfare of the dopes who send him millions of dollars to fund his narcissistic insanity. All Trump cares about is himself. Even the rest of America's fascist billionaire class will admit that. The question now is, will Joe jump into the ring and mobilize what Sheldon Wolin called the party of "inauthentic opposition," and "hammer the traitors to America they are? Repeatedly?"
As Trump infamously says, "We'll have to wait and see." But here's hoping, and although H.L. would disapprove, praying. This is Joe Biden's Harry Truman-FDR-Abraham Lincoln-save Democracy moment, and he's gonna need all the help he can get. "Give 'em Hell," Joe!
Or maybe you (As Biden's new speech writer)!
I was about to say the same thing...
but why not BOTH?
it's also good to mention that, in fact, TFF NEVER got anything like 51% of the votes cast in 2016. he didn't even get a majority. with the Electoral College STILL embracing the winner-take-all bullshit that still prevails in almost every state, we're dealing with...what is it it? six states? eight states?
the "vision for the future" thing I see and hear a lot. but talking about Biden's physical performance being in any way worse than TFF's is pretty fucking, uhhh.....risible.
and I LOVE seeing Sheldon Wolin's name. anywhere. why don't more people know it?