In the last year we have seen a wealthy braggart spend millions of dollars and log thousands of travel miles zig-zagging across the country, whipping up support from people he candidly calls "The Low-Information Set". He's been making broad, ridiculous, almost fantastic (in the classical sense) promises to people across the country, all in order to garner support. He tells people that the country is going down in flames, ruins all over, rampant crime by gangs of armed marauders who're kept out of the prisons by the wealthy money men. He promises more jobs, more infrastructure, lower corporate taxes, higher trade protections and fewer wars by way of having more wars.
Am I alone in recognizing what line of attack this man is using ? He attacks the disabled, mentally challenged, mentally ill, women, transgenders, veterans and the poor, and his fans eat it up. He spoon feeds them hate disguised as political rhetoric and they not only buy into it but many are there already You and I should know better. Do you have to be led by the hand and shown all the details, or are you so resigned to the banality of evil that my efforts are worthless ? Do my words really fall on deaf ears ? Will none of you see what is placed before you ? What is painfully obvious to any student of history ?
Holy hell. I feel like I need a wash up and a nap. or a good brandy.
Shit.
-- DLC
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