I admit I find it hard to believe that Ron DeSantis, who comes off like a high school bully stealing nerdy kids' lunch money, can defeat either Biden or Trump, as he combines the worst traits of both: He's got Biden's lack of charisma and Trump's pettiness, all in one repulsive package. I also can't believe the Religious Right, raised on the "Christianity" of Jack Chick tracts that considered Roman Catholicism just as bad as Communism, will accept a Catholic President no matter what his politics are.
But I've been wrong before - I honestly couldn't believe anybody was stupid enough to vote for Donald Trump, who's a punchline in the Tri-State Area I spent most of my adult life in! Even most of my Right Wing family members could tell he was a loudmouthed half-bright con man, and either didn't bother to vote at all or voted Libertarian.
A part of me is chortling at the idea of DeSantis versus Trump tearing the Republican Party to shreds, even more than Hillary Rodham Clinton did the Democrats by putting her egotistical Sense of Her Place in History ahead of the good of the country by going thermonuclear on Bernie Sanders. But another part of me is remembering 2016, and Donald Trump's Sith Lord ability to take advantage of chaos to benefit himself - alongside his opportunistic genius at seeming to become whatever his marks want him to be....
What is it that will really empower the people? Is the will of the majority always the best for everybody? Are the choices we are asked to make based on policy or personality? Where will we draw the line between intellectual and physical conflict? Do we abandon our moral compass and drift of course just long enough to eliminate the bad actors? And do those who think differently do the same? Does Good ultimately conquer Evil?
And what we will do when they get rid of Black History Month?
I admit I find it hard to believe that Ron DeSantis, who comes off like a high school bully stealing nerdy kids' lunch money, can defeat either Biden or Trump, as he combines the worst traits of both: He's got Biden's lack of charisma and Trump's pettiness, all in one repulsive package. I also can't believe the Religious Right, raised on the "Christianity" of Jack Chick tracts that considered Roman Catholicism just as bad as Communism, will accept a Catholic President no matter what his politics are.
But I've been wrong before - I honestly couldn't believe anybody was stupid enough to vote for Donald Trump, who's a punchline in the Tri-State Area I spent most of my adult life in! Even most of my Right Wing family members could tell he was a loudmouthed half-bright con man, and either didn't bother to vote at all or voted Libertarian.
A part of me is chortling at the idea of DeSantis versus Trump tearing the Republican Party to shreds, even more than Hillary Rodham Clinton did the Democrats by putting her egotistical Sense of Her Place in History ahead of the good of the country by going thermonuclear on Bernie Sanders. But another part of me is remembering 2016, and Donald Trump's Sith Lord ability to take advantage of chaos to benefit himself - alongside his opportunistic genius at seeming to become whatever his marks want him to be....
What is it that will really empower the people? Is the will of the majority always the best for everybody? Are the choices we are asked to make based on policy or personality? Where will we draw the line between intellectual and physical conflict? Do we abandon our moral compass and drift of course just long enough to eliminate the bad actors? And do those who think differently do the same? Does Good ultimately conquer Evil?
And what we will do when they get rid of Black History Month?
What The Fuss
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