CSotD: … and that’s all I care about
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Scott Stantis offers a chilling look at the conventional wisdom, and it brings up a disturbing idea:
If we can't understand why people believe the nonsense that flies out of Donald Trump's mouth, does believing the pundits who assure us he can't win make any more sense?
That is, we've heard media analysts say that people tend to believe what backs up the things they want to believe, even if it makes no sense.
It is certainly reinforced when Donald Trump, who appeals to the flag-waving super-patriot crowd, can get all buddy-buddy with Vladimir Putin (as seen in Tim Eagan's panel) and not lose credibility.
People who are dead certain that Hillary Clinton abandoned the men at Benghazi, despite all evidence to the contrary, apparently believe that Putin has never ordered a hit on anyone, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Michael Ramirez, one of the farthest right cartoonists who gets his work into mainstream papers, takes on this insane belief, and even he doesn't seem to make any headway against people who have decided to support Trump and don't intend to be dissuaded.
Jimmy Margulies nails the surface issue: The Republicans have set up a political structure in which anyone is permitted to say anything and not be held accountable.
They probably didn't expect it to go this far, but here we are and, at this point, what the hell difference does it make?
You've got half the Republicans promising to declare war on Russia and then this guy saying he really likes Putin and nobody seems to be concerned that the GOP Platform might have trouble finding room for both points of view.
Then again, I think I'm just showing my age when I talk about a party platform.
Winning is the party platform, and if that means not batting an eyelash when one of your leading candidates announces that the Pyramids were grain silos, well, he's entitled to his own set of facts, because this is America.
And once you grasp that, you need to start working on this:
If you believe Truth, Justice and the American Way are going to magically, inevitably emerge from the ballot box next November, we might as well bring back trial by combat, secure in the knowledge that God will uphold the righteous.
Waiting for Trump to implode because he must is like not wearing a seatbelt because getting into an auto accident is simply too horrible to think about.
In a somewhat lighter vein:
I posted a link to a year-end-review of Kal Kallaugher's work in the economist the other day; here's a link to his reflections on the year just past, from the pages of the Baltimore Sun.
And here is how the Buffalo News summed up a good year for Adam Zyglis.
And, moving away from politics, here's GoComics' year-end review.
Now here's your moment of Trumpian zen:
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