excellent, humanizing read. thank you for posting.
In a normal world, someone in power who immediately starts blaming without any proof or cause or connected reason, should have been marked as crazy and shamed out of any place of power. I don’t care if its left or right or between. They should be as relevant as those who blame aliens for building the pyramids. They have no place deciding the fate of others.
That a lot of US are so ready to fight immigrants that they dont mind their politicians jumping blindly to conclusions and seeing enemies everywhere… Its scary. Even on this side of the Atlantic.
There are two types of leader: One who wants to figure out, and one who wants to fight. They’re both appropriate for different situations, and a ton of the profressional propaganda that 30-40% of the country consumes every single day is engineered to stimulate the part of the brain that sees enemies everywhere and wants a leader who’s going to fight against the enemies. It’s honestly not even a conscious of consensual process; I think you just stimulate the right pathways enough different times and something clicks over and, whoops, that’s all of a sudden how they see it. That has been my observation at least.
I fully agree with you about how it should work in a normal world (and in this one), but the reality in a lot of these people’s minds is not a normal world and it bears no resemblance at all to reality. In their world, minorities who can’t fly the airplanes are being made into pilots because they’re minorities, pedophiles are being invited into the schools to teach their children pedophilia, Mexican gang members are overrunning border towns and inner cities and good peaceful people just like them are being assaulted and robbed and the people in government refuse to do anything about it… it’s just a wild and dangerous and lawless place, it’s the end of the world and everything they stand for, and they’ll grasp at any kind of straw for someone who will finally do something about it.
It’s hard to really articulate because the words don’t do justice to the level of emotional panic and desperation they’re engineered to feel. But that’s something along the lines of what’s behind it. Whether or not this one black leader had anything to do with it is pretty much irrelevant; they’re just trying to stand for sanity and against madness, in general. We have to do something and thank God won’t someone, anyone do something about it all.
In a normal world
I think you mean in a “sane” or “reasonable” world; we do, by definition, live in a “normal” world…
