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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat can a nation do when a significant portion of its populace becomes paranoid schizophrenic
xenophobic, misogynistic racists? While this portion of the population is clearly less than the majority it nonetheless has managed to become a potentially fatal illness for the nation as a whole. The rest of the world may come to view our nation as a mental health asylum. It would be one thing if these people were harmless, but clearly that is not the case. They believe, in their fever dreams, that they are now empowered, emboldened and in charge. They think that their newly minted fearless leader will guide them to the land of milk and honey. The only place he will lead them is to despair and angst.
The Republican Party infected our nation with this disease and now its gotten out of their control. Fomenting hate and decisiveness for the sake of a deranged ideological power grab. They have not only allowed but encouraged the most mentally ill person in their sanatorium out of his straitjacketed cell (aka Towers) but put him in charge of the institution.
We must fight back against this lunacy (I apologize to lunatics everywhere for demeaning them with He whose name must not be said comparisons). We can't medicate this group and no amount of therapy will adjust their outlook or moderate their behavior. We must become a force to be reckoned with as much as they are. One of the worst of these ignorants said that Obama's Presidency must be a failure and that was his mission. Well it is time for us to get serious about actually taking back our nation from these rabid beasts. Their administration must be a failure. They have perverted the intent of our constitution, the honor of our founding fathers and the lives of those who fought to protect our nation and its idea.
In the early 1800's a group of people who saw their jobs being lost to automation decided to disrupt the manufacturers by destroying the machines that were replacing them. That it was ultimately a lost cause does not lessen the value of 'Luddite' ism. We are about to see the ideals of our nation attacked by the rancid ideology of hate and reactionary devolution. We need a new updated form of Ludditism in which we refuse to cooperate with this deranged new government we are about to endure. This resistance is already beginning, it's in its infancy, but will grow as honorable Americans realize how despicable, and yes deplorable the incoming administration is. It will become, hopefully, most potent when those enduring the fever dreams awake and realize the betrayal to which they are victims.
We have been complacent and self destructive in our inattentive and placid acceptance of right wing pseudo fascism. They have taken advantage of our ill thought out belief that all Americans are for America. They simply are not and it is time we recognize that danger and organize against it.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)whimsical notions. nt