Lies, lies, and more lies
Republican candidates are not only pushing Trump's big lie, but three others. In these last days before the midterms, let's continue to spread the truth
In these last exhausting days before the midterm elections of 2022, I thought you might find useful this inquiry into the lies Republican candidates are telling which I and my colleagues at Inequality Media have been circulating.
You see, the so-called “issues” Republicans are focusing on — inflation, taxes, and crime — are not really issues at all. Get below the rhetoric and look at the facts, and these “issues” have been concocted out of nothing.
Yet the media continues to report that these so-called “issues” are gaining traction with voters.
I’m sending you the attached video in hopes you will share with others. At this point, every voter we can reach with the truth is one additional potential vote for decency and democracy.
Keep doing whatever you can do.
Truth, hence trust, hence legitimacy, are the foundation of a nation's democracy. The Republicans today betray the truth, betray our trust, and are dismantling and betraying the legitimacy of institutions. If they prevail, our democracy will be in gravest peril, even worse than at the time of our historical Civil War!
Donald was an old pal of Vince McMahon of pro wrestling. The Republican Party is recklessly playing a stunt for the rubes, and it is working for them. They are carelessly putting the match to whatever is precious in American politics, and it entertains them when it causes us anguish.
In pro wrestling, the bad boys - who tend to have more fans than the good guys, or "babyfaces" - act in the most atrocious way towards other wrestlers, and the crowd eats it up. The wrestlers remain scrupulously in-character whenever they are in public-called kayfabe. Donald is a bigger-than-life bad guy, a "heel." I can't tell if he comprehends what a fake he is. But the party members don't care, they scream with delight.
The late Andy Kaufman loved pro wrestling "guerrilla theater." All of his notoriously nasty appearances in the ring were staged. The news media presented it as though he were being a real jerk, and was getting threatened and pounded by offended pro wrestlers. But it all was a stunt, even the pretend injuries. He kept the illusion for entertainment purposes.
Once Kaufman wrestled in Nashville. Before the match, he insolently showed a video to the Nashville audience on how to use soap, and performed to deafening screams of hate from the crowd. They sent him to the hospital with a broken neck - that was part of the script. The crowd didn't know it was phony. They loved it.
The not-so-bright MAGA crowd is using American politics for entertainment the same way. The crowd is delirious that Paul Pelosi was bonked by a hammer. "It was his gay lover!" It’s all as believable and real to them as wrestling, the neck-shattering piledrivers that are carefully rehearsed by the pro wrestlers before the show. These physical actors portray the illusion of physical harm while protecting the "opponent" actor from getting hurt. If the wrestlers are good, nobody really gets hurt.
This is the Republican game for delirious voters. They don’t want to hear about inflation or crime or Herschel Walker’s aborted fetuses. It’s just a game to them. They will tell you that Shoah (the Holocaust) was a hoax. They will tell you that the Democrats eat babies. They relish in their illusion that their guy will righteously crush the bad guy.
Wrestling makes money off the intellectual flaccidity and massive egos of these losers. So does the Republican Party. They've brought the Big Show to the big ring, and their followers are orgasmic with delight.
The idiot truly has the matches, and they will burn the house down. They really might get us killed. This is not a phony stunt by skilled actors, although professional liars like Kevin McCarthy, Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene seem to believe that they all belong to a wrestling stable that allows them to preen and strut for the crowd, in order to get the big payoff.
Honestly, that is why they won't budge when faced with the truth. They have paid for their tickets, and expect a show. They are vicious, indifferent losers who play with our country like it's a stunt.
It is very entertaining to injure helpless things and watch them die. The childhood of most psychopaths is replete with animal cruelty.
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
I wish to dispute D.H. Lawrence, but I have no grounds to do so.