WRONSKI WRANGLES

I'm critical of the current Democrat Party for what in my view is not having anything to offer other than spitting out whatever the latest focus group suggests will get a vote. And, with no end in sight to driving with a tank full of "Not Trump" They have made out the opponents be so evil as to represent an existential threat to the country. What could go wrong with that? Joe's idea of unity is when everybody agrees with him. In 2024, whoever is the Dem candidate, the strategy will be, "Still Better Than Trump". And, that's irrespective of whether DT will in fact run again.  Isn't it foreseeable that some Joe Blow's could get it into their heads to do some real damage given that the stakes have been raised to a do or die level? Don't way I didn't warn on this.

We are living in interesting times. For ... sure. I've been watching the political rhetoric in this US of A over the last several years and the ante of "anti" seems to have been raised to the point now where we're all in. One side sees the other as the devil incarnate. The other side ... pretty much the same thing. Maybe with different words. Pick a side! When you caste the situation in absolute, black and white terms I don't see any way forward with that except to some sort of violent confrontation. Scorched earth outcome, when you draw it out to its final end point. The problem with political rhetoric spewed out in world-ending, cataclysmic terms is that it can put someone or someone's in mind to do something about that.  Pols frighten me with their words. Calling the other the devil, a fascist, a nazi, a war criminal, a murderer, a mad man, a pariah ... them's fightin' words, bruh. I don't get that those slinging that stuff have any more motive ...

I recently saw this: “According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of U.S. adults 16-74 years old - about 130 million people - lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.” I don't know what the stat would be on "logic", but I bet the number is even higher. Doesn't that give a little insight into to how come the pols talk to us the way they do? Small, easily assimilated morsels of assumed meaning(s) loaded with subtext and meta messaging. Its called propaganda. Remember, "Kids in cages". Immigrant detainees held in "concentration camps". "Insurrection!" "Coup!" "Sleepy Joe." "Fake News*." In each case there's a grain of truth. My point is to be on the alert for attempts to convince you that the grain is the whole enchilada. Or, as Doctor Jill would put it, the whole "Breakfast Taco" at the local "Bodaga". *That "Fake News", there...