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Democrats Want to Believe Their Hallucinations
Charles Cooke has a good piece today about a Politico article which laments the setbacks that have been faced by (…or, some might suggest, caused by…) President Biden so far. Mr. Cooke describes this article as an “hallucinatory missive” which is “a good example of the sort of reported essay that begins to crop up ineluctably whenever it dawns upon the D.C. press corps that its personal hopes for the incumbent Democratic president are likely to be dashed“. Mr. Cooke notes that this essay seems eerily familiar to him (emphasis mine):
The assumptions that undergird Lemire’s report should be depressingly familiar to anyone who follows American politics. They are, in no particular order: that Democratic presidents should get whatever they want, and that if they don’t, something is broken; that the Republican and Democratic parties secretly agree on everything, but, for some reason, keep failing to put their agreement into action in the legislature; and that all Democratic presidents are kind, reserved, bipartisan, avuncular figures who, having lived unblemished lives of purity and goodwill, eventually become shocked by the coarseness and misanthropy of their opponents.
One wonders how many Democrat voters were expecting a “kind, reserved, bipartisan, avuncular figure who, having lived an unblemished life of purity and goodwill…”, and were disappointed when they ended up with Joe Biden, a vicious, bombastic, hyper-partisan narcissist who has led a disastrous life of corruption and destruction. They voted for the public image of Bill Clinton, and they got the private nightmare of a senescent Lyndon Johnson (on a combination of Quaaludes and crystal meth). Surely some of them must be disappointed. Surely.
Mr. Cooke is starting to recognize a pattern, here.
I wonder if any Democrat voters are starting to notice the same thing?
I doubt that they are.
I also doubt that it matters.
But geez – it must be getting harder and harder for the media to maintain the hallucination that Mr. Cooke describes.
Surely some Democrat voters are noticing that the Democrat policies they voted for are not working out all that well. Surely some Democrat voters are starting to notice that the media coverage of President Biden is not entirely accurate. Surely some Democrat voters are starting to wonder if perhaps there might be another way. Surely.
Right?
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Given what I know about LBJ he most likely exposed himself to someone he couldn’t see…
Good bourbon?
I hear voices in my head all the time.
Thank God I’m a man, so I don’t listen to them . . .
Makes sense.
I saw Figment and the Nonconsensus Realities open for Deep Purple at the Cow Palace in El Paso in ’76.
Or maybe I just imagined it.
Egad.
The voices probably ARE real.
Non-consensus reality indeed.
But the voices are NOT friendly.
Study Jerry Marzinsky, people.
That’s JERRY MARZINSKY.
Since I haven’t yet studied him either, do what I did and start with the James Delingpole podcast interview for an intro.
I can’t promise to agree with this if I ever do get to study him, but THIS is one non-consensus view to take very seriously.
You may have imagined it. We’ll have to see if we can get a consensus on that.🤔
You did not. I was there too. Figment was ok, but Bolin was on fire.
If you did imagine it, or if you heard emanations in the middle of the night that no-one else was privy to other than your good self, please don’t feel that it’s because there’s something wrong with you. I just want to assure you that I UNDERSTAND and SUPPORT YOU. And that IT’S OK, really. And that–if it comes right down to it–I wish I could have seen them too.
aka The Marching Morons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
later popularized in the movie “Idiocracy.”
There are way too many people, including some of my relatives and several former neighbors in Phoenix, who believe the “solution” to the way Democrats have messed things up, can only be electing more Democrats to fix them.
But isn’t Taylor Lorenz “The Enemy?” Maybe she’s just providing them cover.
Evidence suggests that, as with paranoia when people ARE out to get you, that’s just good thinking.
Another expression I came up with long ago, is “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is KILLED.”
Strange that is it not? I know many Democrats that did not vote last time. I know more that went over to Trump. I know nobody that voted for Trump in 2016 that did not in 2020. But still he lost and to think it suspect is almost criminal. Go figure.
In the end we all have to learn to live with out internal voices.
What makes you think they are stupid? If they win the election then they are smart.
The truth of this is scary. I would like it to be publicly known that I have Republican sympathies. Such things end careers and destroy dreams.
Stupid and smart do go together sometimes. They call it “the Ivy League.”
They don’t have to be smart to threaten their opponents with ruin, but that’s how they can win.
“Stupid smart people are the most destructive force in society” h/t Dan Bongino.
Pretty sound theory IMHO
Stupid people tend to know they are stupid.
But there is a type of smart person that thinks because they are smart about some things they are smart about everything.
There there are smart people who do not think they are smart.
But the smartest people are so smart that they realize how stupid they actually are.
From his web site:
“When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or cease to be honest.”
Socrates was famously the wisest man because he knew he knew nothing. A more modern philosopher noted that:
“A man has to know his limitations” – Harry Callahan. The people who don’t self appoint to the elite and wind up causing all kinds of mischief.
That’s why I voted for Donald Trump. I was pleasantly surprised that he wasn’t completely hopeless.
The fact that Biden is a malignant buffoon whose policies are uniformly wrong and highly destructive simply means that the image of the GOP must become far more monstrous and dangerous. In order to preserve the desired fictional contrast, the left must increasingly resort to caricature.
White supremecistNazi extremists imposing mandatory motherhood at gunpoint and killing science is the consequence of not voting Democratic.This drift also has personnel consequences. Sentient grownups who favor factual takes on the issues must be pushed aside for the likes of Joy Reid, Dick Durbin, Brian Steltzer, or Taylor Lorenz, the sort that can deliver complete nonsense and maybe even believe it.
People in charge of the $100 billion federal agency charged with the security of the nation thought that putting Nina Jankowicz in charge of all information exchange was a good idea. There would need to be sweeping upgrades and replacements just to bring the Biden Administration staffing up to the level of being second-rate.
The dumber and more fear-based the narrative must be to try to deflect opposition based on facts and results, the dumber and less principled will be those tapped to deliver it and the uglier the campaign rhetoric.
Then the smartest smart people refuse to oppose any of the stupid people, because they lack confidence. And the stupid people win.
Socrates indeed!
So much of Plato’s Apology here!
FWIW, I would rephrase the third to say that the smartest people can see the relationship between what they know and how much there is to be known.