objective reality v. trumpworld

“I know that this isn’t the kind of sto­ry that’s easy for most vot­ers to fol­low and un­der­stand, but it’s also way more im­por­tant than any of the crazy, dumb things that have hap­pened at the RNC this week. I’ve crit­i­cized Trump from the be­gin­ning and have al­ways thought his can­di­da­cy is dan­ger­ous, but his in­ter­view com­ments about NATO com­mit­ments are the first time that I have tru­ly been ter­ri­fied about the prospect of his presidency.

“What Trump is say­ing here goes way be­yond Re­pub­li­can v. De­mo­c­ra­t­ic pol­i­tics and the cam­paign. He is ei­ther op­posed to or does not un­der­stand the se­cu­ri­ty regime that has pre­vent­ed ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al con­flict in Eu­rope for sev­en­ty years. This is should be seen as fun­da­men­tal­ly dis­qual­i­fy­ing from a non-par­ti­san perspective.”
—Mitch Park
 

So in 3 full days of the #RNC­in­CLE did you hear even one plan, one idea, one atom of a scheme for how to take the coun­try forward?

To­day is the fi­nal day, you’d have fig­ured it would have come up by now right?

In­stead we’ve got­ten speak­er af­ter speak­er saber-rat­tling and seething with what can now only be called a patho­log­i­cal ha­tred for Hillary Clinton. 

An end­less smor­gas­bord of waved red rags to an are­na filled chock­ablock with bulls that ben­e­fit­ed gen­er­al­ly more from the Amer­i­can late 20th cen­tu­ry eco­nom­ic boom than any oth­er de­mo­graph­ic and who are now *fu­ri­ous* that … well, pick one: It’s gays, it’s black peo­ple, it’s Oba­ma, it’s women, it’s tax­es be­ing used to pay for some­thing oth­er than bombers. 

It’s been a ref­er­en­dum on what we keep hear­ing were a dis­as­trous 8 years in spite of a wealth of math and real data that says to­tal­ly otherwise. 

We’ve talked time and again how there are two Amer­i­c­as but from the look of what’s hap­pen­ing in Cleve­land this week I’m not even sure these peo­ple in­hab­it the same planet. 

They have lived off such a steady con­stant diet of non­sense for so long that all the bad facts and lies cre­ate their own con­tained ecosys­tem. Kind of like a con­spir­a­cy web­site where all the links to ev­i­dence just point to oth­er pages on the same site. 

No won­der Trump’s ridicu­lous wall seems like such a great idea to these peo­ple; it will match the one they built be­tween them­selves and ob­jec­tive re­al­i­ty like a decade-plus ago.
 
 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2016 Ja­son Malm­berg. Foto via NY Dai­ly News.

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