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Photo: © Stan Banos

Ain't we all (on the losing side)? And the reasons, most assuredly are legion, but here are a few that pertain to 75% of most political debacles:

✔  If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself. 

✔ Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred (emphasis mine).

✔ This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

I like giving credit where credit due, Trump is the greatest con man (as in one who gains your "confidence") in a century- it is where the majority of his "very, very large brain" resides. He has elevated racism, misogyny and outright ignorance into badges of pride and honor- even pre-Sixties Southern bigots knew deep down that it was nothing to be openly proud about (thus the hoods). Trump is so good at it, that he has even convinced those of the affected categories (ie- those blanketly victimized by his taunts, vitriol and retribution) that they are not like... the rest; so good at it, that a convicted felon (with 11 close "associates" who have either plead guilty or have been convicted and sentenced) can run on a "law and order platform." Easy solutions for tough problems, and if reality gets in the way, simply revert to the three tenets above.

Yeah, I could go on, even though it really does one no good- what good did delving into all the inequities of the George W. regime do us now? I 'learned' that we could not possibly go any lower, and yet, lower did we go- much, much, much lower! But I yam what I yam, so I'll eventually I've already dug in for the next four years, a decidedly worse four than the insanity that preceded it... forever hoping like the fool I am that evil finally gets its comeuppance.  

Truth is, the guidebook was written centuries ago- just needs the right guy at the right time to pick it up and run with it- cause so many of us don't have to be convinced at all!

*Quotes courtesy Joseph Goebbels.

Photo: © Stan Banos