Tom Sullivan is shrill about the ignorance and incompetence of not just the Idiot in Chief, but the people he has surrounded himself with and appointed to important offices, with the eager cooperation of the Republican senators. In my view, a basic reason why the Cult of Orange Julius is difficult for many of us to understand is precisely because ignorance and stupidity are a feature, not a bug.
The continual torrent of lies and nonsense from Dear Leader and his flunkies is a permit to his followers. You don't have to know anything, you don't have to do the work of learning and thinking and understanding, you don't need to process inconvenient truths or open your mind to the possibility of ever being wrong about anything. You can just believe whatever you want to believe. Sure, you're also getting a permit for racism, vulgarity, bullying, mocking people with disabilities, threatening violence, hating whoever you want to hate. But the permission to be an ignorant idiot is the broader freedom. That's what people like about him.
I don't have the answer, I really don't.
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I’ve been maintaining a database of various COVID stats since 3/26 (personal project data people keep analyzing data after retirement that’s what we do). I just recorded the 7 day moving average of US deaths at 1301. The highest since 5/21.
Discouraging and tragic.
For a deeper look at WHY the false construct of racism appeals to many people:
https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2020/08/wynton-marsalis-on-race-the-solution-can-only-be-found-outside-of-the-game-itself/
Here is the entire, original piece:
https://live.stanford.edu/blog/july-2020/all-rise-response-racial-injustice?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SL20AugusteNews&utm_content=version_A
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