Glad you brought Old Bill into it because he already wrote about the magas in Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, the mindless mobs angrily swaying, braying, and achieving the highest level of clunky and cacophonous groupthink. While some of us are bemused by crowds of youth achieving near ecstasy at rock and rap concerts, at least they have m…
Glad you brought Old Bill into it because he already wrote about the magas in Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, the mindless mobs angrily swaying, braying, and achieving the highest level of clunky and cacophonous groupthink. While some of us are bemused by crowds of youth achieving near ecstasy at rock and rap concerts, at least they have music--and they have youth. The magas are not that; they are now just a congealed wall, if not a force, who will glom onto the next destructionist who leaps into the breach (dog forbid even a Stephen Miller) after Trump is necessarily defeated, and of course he must be. The magas have tasted blood and desire more, making them even more easily manipulated than ever.
It will not be enough to defeat Trump, but I'm working on it, including donating to upstanding Dem candidates like Col. Eugene Vindman in Virginia and Ruben Gallego in Arizona as well as those in my own state. The magas must be made to feel the sting the Germans and Italians felt when they had to spend the rest of their lives knowing they'd once supported tyrants. Let the churchies among them forgive them as they are so into the largesse of forgiveness, but the rest of us should never let them forget that it is they who brought us to the brink of the calamitous crash I hope we can pull hard and nose up from.
Torpor or hysterical fanaticism? That seems to be the choice in Texas. God, I hate that Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone with Schitt” is a winning strategy. In Texas, if people are not MAGAts, they are quiet. Should be the other way around. What will jolt the troops. If I mention anything, people “shush” me like they are afraid of being heard. Where is the outrage???
Glad you brought Old Bill into it because he already wrote about the magas in Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, the mindless mobs angrily swaying, braying, and achieving the highest level of clunky and cacophonous groupthink. While some of us are bemused by crowds of youth achieving near ecstasy at rock and rap concerts, at least they have music--and they have youth. The magas are not that; they are now just a congealed wall, if not a force, who will glom onto the next destructionist who leaps into the breach (dog forbid even a Stephen Miller) after Trump is necessarily defeated, and of course he must be. The magas have tasted blood and desire more, making them even more easily manipulated than ever.
It will not be enough to defeat Trump, but I'm working on it, including donating to upstanding Dem candidates like Col. Eugene Vindman in Virginia and Ruben Gallego in Arizona as well as those in my own state. The magas must be made to feel the sting the Germans and Italians felt when they had to spend the rest of their lives knowing they'd once supported tyrants. Let the churchies among them forgive them as they are so into the largesse of forgiveness, but the rest of us should never let them forget that it is they who brought us to the brink of the calamitous crash I hope we can pull hard and nose up from.
Torpor or hysterical fanaticism? That seems to be the choice in Texas. God, I hate that Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone with Schitt” is a winning strategy. In Texas, if people are not MAGAts, they are quiet. Should be the other way around. What will jolt the troops. If I mention anything, people “shush” me like they are afraid of being heard. Where is the outrage???