The election of 2024 is a testament to the failure of character and commitment by Americans both educated and uneducated, the ultimate consequence of their psycho-emotional estrangement from themselves. Of course, they were fertile ground for the lies that allayed their fears. The fear enabled them to buy into a financial pipe dream. The fear enabled them to swim in the raw sewage of their prejudices. The fear made them feel safe in the mob. They weren’t tricked or deceived. They willingly chose to blame faceless culprits for their own suffering. They rallied around their sociopathic führer, and made it clear that they never truly understood what being an American really was.
Fear, Joy, Arrogance and Ignorance
Pursuing happiness, as alien as it seems now, was actually part of the American design. Among the reckless masses that have led us to the ruin that certainly awaits us, the greatest fear was joy. The candidate they voted against talked directly about joy. The joy of the unity that was still possible. The joy of making progress. The joy of admitting you care. The joy that we’ve been lacking in almost ten years of political impasse, obfuscation in our discourse and belligerence for its own sake. They coined the “fuck your feelings” slogan, and never understood that by definition, it meant their feelings too. That’s kind of how it works. That battle cry wasn’t so much an attack as it was an affirmation of their own emotional cowardice. Joy takes vulnerability and confidence. Joy cannot be bought. The way a schoolyard bully and his cohorts deal with their joyless existence is to take joy away from someone else. This is exactly what happened in the election. They thought winning was joy. “Owning” someone else was joy. Making sure no one they didn’t recognize was heard, was joy.
Regardless of whether they believed everything they were told or merely embraced the spirit of the lie, every last one that voted with arrogance and ignorance dispensed with the immediate complexities of freedom. In so doing, they dispensed with the freedoms and protections of all Americans. This perplexing and conflicted bunch are so skilled in self-deception that they actually believe they’re good people. But they aren’t. Good people do not sanction the suffering of others. Good people do not seek to dominate and exclude. Good people do not overlook blatant lies and manipulation. Good people don’t elect a president that who abuses people and constantly evades justice. This overwhelming population of losers and the lost are in fact a cancer, a deeply rooted and terminal illness, metastasized by their führer, who feeds on their fear and pain. A woman I know tried to explain it away like this. “I’m voting for him, but I’m not MAGA.” Oh yes, my friend, you actually are. No matter how badly you might feel about that, you absolutely are. I remember a Woody Allen routine in which he describes Jews for Hitler. He said, “They were deluded. They thought he’d be good for the country.” An old friend of mine put it more succinctly.
“Jewish or not, you know what you called them? Nazis.”
Patterns of Finality
I saw a discussion online that commenced after an old acquaintance of mine warned about the finality of ending lifelong relationships over how people voted in an election. “Isn’t it a bit much?” he asked. A pattern formed almost immediately. Those who voted red were adding their “likes” to his warning in great numbers. This was a powerful tell about their psycho-emotional handicaps. They simply cannot associate their behaviors with the people that stand to be hurt by them. They aren’t prepared to lose friends over their behavior. They forgot that they had a responsibility. They are surprised by consequences. Conversely, those who voted blue posited unequivocal responses to the contrary. I understood this, because to end relationships exposed for their cruel truths is palliative to those who felt not only that they and their children had been betrayed, but that the level of moral bankruptcy that should disqualify a president would even sooner disqualify a supposed friend. This is not a generalization. These are dangerous people. You cannot allow anyone around them that you seek to protect. Their current level of depravity is prologue.
Anyone celebrating the result of this election has plenty of company. They won’t miss me. They’ve succeeded in sanctioning human suffering and the wanton dissolution of protections from tyranny. They’ve not only cast aside my friendship and respect by putting my family at risk, but they’ve discarded more than 200 years of the American experiment out of pure selfishness. All for an overgrown adolescent criminal who, in one way or another, will knowingly cast them aside when the time is right. They must be purged from our lives, just for wellness. These changes are just a matter of survival. First, we must survive. These superficial connections are inconsequential when held up against centuries of principle, though they do loom large in our personal experience. Therefore, their purging must also be mourned, like the death of a dream.
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