What is this, season 3 and episode 1573 of Donald Does DC ?
Some further thoughts on our Incredible Social Media Summit
Look I understand that most individuals who passed the 6th grade are fully aware of the absurd and stupid stuff our Fearless Leader did in the Rose Garden a couple of days ago, this is the same nonsense he does on a daily basis. You know………... the same crap he constantly pulls to create the impression that the clowns at this so called summit were actual experts, and the the things they claim to be fighting against are not just attempts at rewriting unflattering past history, and the threats to their freedoms that they are obsessed with are actually self induced hallucinations. I think most of us see it for what it is constant lies about everything, misrepresentations of the most basic facts, and intentional distortion always with the intent of serving the purpose of enriching himself or his family members. Look most of us get it, our Dear Leader is completely delusional, highly paranoid, and is unfortunately convinced that he actually does have a “really good brain”.
The problem here is that for a significant number of our fellow citizens the modern miracle of corporate marketing and these companies ability to utilize the industry handbook “101 Ways to Brainwash The Public At Large” has been extremely successful. The line between fantasy and reality is way too blurred for many of these folks, and the tools that our major media outlets use to constantly sell us vehicles we can’t afford and a laundry list of other stuff we don’t need, are being put to good use convincing rank and file Americans that our President is smart, ethical, moral, and honest.
One of the right’s current special projects is specially designed to manufacture agitation and social outrage, it is intended to convince those who identify as conservative or what used to be known in some circles as the “Moral Majority”, that they are being discriminated against because their not getting as many “likes” on Facebook as they wanted and somehow that means that they are somehow being stripped of their God given rights. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on how we deal with this ongoing attack and our ability to generate an effective push back , this manufactured injustice will only continue to be hyped for all it’s worth by these guys.
We have seen this cynical ploy play out before under the guiding hand of Jerry Falwell. It was used to great effect as a wedge issue by Ronald Reagan in that he was never shy about saying one thing but doing the exact opposite when his actions were hidden from view. Only then it was based on the presumed high ground of the Bible as the definitive moral standard. Not the kind of raw paranoia we see now over the most outrageous and far fetched conspiracy theories that these current fools tend to latch onto. Keep in mind that a significant number of these screw ball ideas that are spread by the likes of Sebastian Gorka and “really good folks” like Alex Jones are nonsense that have been created and promoted by the self same Russians who hacked our elections and are still intending to spread chaos and division here in the States. Oddly enough some of this and other popular tropes these guys use to push their warped agenda originate from postings commonly promoted around the internet as profit generators that were essentially designed as click bait.
Unfortunately one of the most effective tools used by the likes of the James O'Keefe’s, and Charlie Kirkse’s of this world is the one that tries to convince you that there are “dangerous others” who are constantly plotting our personal demise and the utter destruction of our nation. Which obviously leads us to the current sad state of affairs at our southern border. A situation that this administration has willingly inflicted on this country and nations all across the globe by creating the idea that all but select immigrants are somehow less than human and a mortal threat to this country and it’s citizens. We constantly see just how willing Trump is to use this approach as a bludgeon to instill fear and loathing. Most of this so far has been outward but as we get closer to the 2020 election it’s anybody’s guess how far an individual of Trump’s low moral character will be willing to take his completely false and fabricated attacks on his political opponents and fellow Americans. He obviously has no limit to the depth he is willing to go to fabricate distortions and flat out lies about anyone who does not worship the ground he walks on.
Of course the pandering to the extreme far right social media nuts is merely a form of crude stagecraft. It is one more element that he will be able to draw upon to make his case that everyone except this devoted base and “his” Republican party are out to get him. The same twisted view that the GOP has been peddling since Nixon except that with Trump anything that even remotely contradicts his phony fabricated image of himself, past, present, or future, is suddenly morphed into just another example of fake news and another excuse for one of his rambling rewrites of history and attacks on anyone who actually thinks facts are important. Even when we actually have the man himself making comments or performing actions directly in front of us that prove his denials to be bald faced lies.
So how do we fix this mess ? I truly wish I had the intellect and common sense to put forth some practical steps we could take to put an end to this nonsense. The problem is that I do have some experience with individuals who are suffering with chronic forms of delusional thinking even to the point of schizophrenia, and without dedicated intervention by highly skilled medical professionals a return to rational thought processes and reality based decision making is something that these individuals can rarely if ever hope to achieve. So where does that put us if ( this is highly speculative, it’s only a guess at this point ) we have possibly somewhere around 60 million Americans who are die hard Trump supporters ? These are individuals who despite the preponderance of hard evidence and over three years of nearly daily examples are still willing to cling to the delusion that Donald Trump is an honest and trust worthy individual, that doesn’t even take into account that it is extremely likely that he has directly engaged in serious criminal activity for over fifty years. How do you go about altering this persistent form of delusional thinking in so many individuals minds ? Especially when you have someone who is invested with the power of the office of the President, who goes around promoting some of the most outrageous notions that are fostered and spread by conspiracy theorists and flat out nut jobs. His supporters see all this. All the lies, contradictions, and all the corrupt behavior that they wouldn’t tolerate from anyone else, and yet they still are convinced that he is some sort of saint. This is a type of defective mental process.
The threat he poses is right there on full display and their delusional mental state refuses to recognize any of it. This is one of the most difficult aspects to cope with when dealing with certain aspects of mental illness. The individual locks onto an idea or some type of fixation and they end up building their entire sense of self, who they actually see themselves as, around this concept. As such it is extremely difficult to dislodge this notion or image no matter how false or unrealistic it may be. Trump takes every opportunity to reinforce the phony image many of his supporters have of him and his policies and then reinforces that by constantly tell them that anything else they see or hear is just fake news. It’s amazing how many of these folks he has hooked with the endless smoke and mirrors. There is a very compelling reason why so many mental health professionals research this phenomena and so many are willing to speak out despite certain ethical restrictions. His fans remain loyal because they think they have some personal connection. Could it be that they think like him ? That, in and of itself, is a pretty scary prospect that kind of hurts my head just thinking about it.
I can only hope that if every opportunity to distribute fact based reports is pursued, to fully explain and support this administrations crimes and misdeeds with a completely factual retelling, to call out media misdirection and complete distortions for what they truly are, and to constantly counter the misstatements and endless lies that this President tells so easily, we may begin to chip away at that base he is so fixated on satisfying. He is after all not only completely corrupting our fundamental government structures with his refusal to follow the law or accepted tradition, but politicians to follow will look upon the corrupt manner by which he has achieved his limited success and possibly adopt these tactics to realize their own goals when they encounter political or social pressure.
The task is monumental. We have to somehow motivate voters to come to the polls in numbers this nation has not seen in more than three generations. We have to speak truth to power at every turn. We need to promote candidates for every position from local offices to the highest office of the land who are well qualified. They must be highly educated and have extensive experience. They must have a clear vision of the challenges this nation faces and realistic grasp of howto fix them. They must be individuals who understand that all Americans need the support of their government not just ones from a certain party or specific economic class, and must be someone who will work for the benefit of the nation’s future and the welfare of it’s citizens now and far into the future. And obviously the most difficult of all, we need to dispel the twisted notions and false images of our country that our President has sold as a solution to fear, hatred, and senseless paranoia that he himself has worked constantly to generate and spread. And certainly as important as any of these issues, we need to apply increasing levels of pressure to make sure we keep members of the extreme right wing fringe out of the White House Rose Garden while they are fabricating phony outrage sessions that are only intended to promote the President’s dystopian view of America and create the false narrative that he serves the nation when everything he does is designed to use tax payers dollars to pursue his new found political power.