So, ran across these Facebook groups and if you will notice, in both cases it seems that Trump enjoys the perception of a certain almost religious infallibility, along the lines of those obnoxious "God said it, I believe it, that settles it." bumper stickers we all know and love. Notice the bottom picture, where it says, "No matter what." No shit, apparently.
I am just wondering if we are all underestimating the power of the Religious Far Right in all this. Being fundamentalists by nature (I think) they certainly have already demonstrated their ability to muster and maintain the staggering amounts of cognitive dissonance necessary to support Trump's words and actions, so it becomes obvious that nothing we "liberals" or Democrats or reasoning people in general say or do is ever going to change their minds, but only solidify their weird, unreasonable loyalty to Trump.
America is a funny place. It's unwittingly puritanical. I did not realize this until I started traveling outside the country. For example, in Europe women can breastfeed in public, breast fully exposed. Nearly unthinkable in the US. Also, public beaches sometimes have a nude section and nobody bats an eye. I saw this in Barcelona. Even the showers were right by the main road but no big deal. I think our schizophrenic relationship with the body, sexuality, morality and nature is the perfect dark place for these rightwing nuts to fester. IMO, it was almost inevitable that a monster like Trump would emerge from this insanity. The so called "apocalypse" is these sexually repressed, science hating "no matter what" freaks moment of glory. For them, why not Trump?
ReplyDeleteIndeed. And the repressed always returns in monstrous form.
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