Okay, we know that the individual currently occupying the office of president of the United States is insane. But that doesn't explain the entire Republican party choosing to live in his delusional world. Stephen Collinson at CNN offers a lengthy discussion of the party's pandemic denialism. Mark Sumner focuses on Florida and the Resident's Mini-Me Ron DeSantis, but you could write the same column about Arizona or South Carolina or Texas. Repeatedly saying that this isn't really happening and we're the best in the world and making people wear masks or shutting down bars is tyranny is useless because people are getting sick and the hospitals are filling up and people are dying, and you can't hide that. It's happening to people who watch Faux News. It's happening to people who wear MAGA hats. It's happening to people who voted for Ron DeSantis. Magical incantations won't make it go away.
Same goes for anthropogenic climate change. It just keeps getting hotter, and the Southwest U.S. is now in the throes of a multi-year drought that may become the worst modern civilization has ever seen and make it impossible to sustain the population of the region. In the short term, they're headed for an unprecedented heat wave. Again, just pretending this isn't happening is not a winning strategy because you can't hide it. The people who live there are cooking in the heat and running out of water, and they know it.
Now I'm particularly looking forward to the Republican National Convention happening outdoors, in Jacksonville, Florida, in August. That should be fun!
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Here's the answer. It's a long answer. But it's the answer. It's YouTube that was sent to me by a friend who has, among other awards, a Pulitzer Prize and perhaps 10 Grammy Awards.
https://youtu.be/QOPGpE-sXh0
Another thought: It's BECAUSE we live in an ignorant, delusional society that doesn't see racism and slavery as the founding principles of the U.S. that Shitler's ascent to the White House was possible. Note the term, "White House." Muhammad Ali, The Greatest, shows why he was in the YouTube URL I just posted. He acknowledges the fact that the U.S. was founded on the principle of Caucasian supremacy. THAT'S why we're in the mess we're in. As the lecturer on the video says, the South lost the war but they won the peace.
Yeah, I get the racism part, but not the denial of incontrovertible reality. This long essay by Anne Applebaum attempts to explain it.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
I mean that people like Scalia--who said he didn't listen to anything but Fux--and McConnell, Roger Stone (freshly excused from prison by virtue of being in Shitler's inner circle and, therefore, "above the law"), Kavanaugh, Graham, Bill Barr, etc. don't HAVE any principles to abandon--and indeed are not in the same reality you and I inhabit. They are in a false "reality" of Caucasian dominance, immunity from consequences that the people G.H.W. Bush called "OFUs"are subject to. This IS their reality, even if it's bullshit. Like Marion Michael Morrison ("John Wayne") famously said, those selfish Indians [sic] wanted the land all to themselves when so many (Caucasian) people needed it ... and he said "Blacks" (I use the term African Americans) shouldn't be allowed to govern till they learned how to be responsible.
It's a Catch-22 loop: We're going to keep our foot up your collective ass, and then we'll complain that you're inferior because we have our foot up your ass.
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