{"id":9286,"date":"2019-12-08T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2019-12-08T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T02:34:07","slug":"the-alice-in-wonderland-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/08\/the-alice-in-wonderland-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alice in Wonderland Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, Michael Anton named the 2016 presidential election the Flight 93 Election.\u00a0 The analogy was that voting for Donald Trump was the equivalent of storming the cockpit to attempt to stop the Democrats (and Republicans) from hijacking and crashing the Unites States of America.<\/p>\n

Unexpectedly it worked.\u00a0 And over the last few years we have seen just how apt the Flight 93 metaphor was.\u00a0 But we have moved well beyond the analogy because although we may have wrested the cockpit out of the hands of the terrorists, the plane is still taking anti-aircraft fire from enemy forces on the ground.<\/p>\n

Well, enough of that metaphor.\u00a0 Let\u2019s try a new one.\u00a0 A few days ago I reviewed<\/a> the current state of the Democrat Presidential Primary and I declared that the only way they could get me to watch them was if I thought I\u2019d get a laugh out of it.\u00a0 Creepy Uncle Joe could get me to listen to his Tales of Corn Pop or watch him bite his wife\u2019s hand but I wasn\u2019t interested anymore in watching their boring debates or commercials.<\/p>\n

But on closer inspection I think maybe boring is the wrong word.\u00a0 I think the correct word is painful.<\/p>\n

Let me elaborate.\u00a0 When Liarwatha or Bernie starts yammering about the Green New Deal or Medicaid for All, the disconnection from reality is actually painful to listen to.\u00a0 A sane listener experiences a jarring cognitive dissonance.\u00a0 It\u2019s like someone is scratching his fingernails across a chalkboard or when you bite down on a sore tooth.\u00a0 So, it would take quite a bit to get me to listen to this stuff again.<\/p>\n

And the same thing occurred when the Schiff gang began their little sitcom around impeachment.\u00a0 Listening to Pelosi\u2019s minions pretending to be Watergate investigators is just too tedious and nonsensical to follow for more than a minute or two at a time.\u00a0 One of my friends sent me a link to the testimony Jonathan Turley gave at the hearings.\u00a0 He is the one \u201cexpert\u201d that wasn\u2019t an obvious hack trying to legitimize the Schiff kangaroo court.\u00a0 I listened to his measured and balanced discussion of what kind of presidential actions would and would not amount to an impeachable offense.\u00a0 I found him credible.\u00a0 But I also realized that he would not influence opinion one way or another.\u00a0 Forty percent of the country would agree with him, another forty percent would call him a liar and the last Twenty Percent would be \u201cunsure.\u201d\u00a0 The needle wouldn\u2019t even twitch.\u00a0 So why should I watch this stuff if it makes no difference at all?\u00a0 I mean I think it\u2019s good for our side to put their side of the story out there to make sure the Twenty Percent hears both sides of the story but for me and my readers there\u2019s no new information provided.<\/p>\n

Which brings me back to what I was saying the other day.\u00a0 The only possible reason to watch the Democrats is for entertainment value.\u00a0 Creepy Uncle Joe or foaming at the mouth commies will have to pull out all the stops if they want me to tune in.\u00a0 The denizens of the Island of Broken Toys will have to really try to get me to watch.\u00a0 Maybe a three stooges slap fight between Joe, Petey and Bernie or a hair pulling cat fight between Fauxcahantas and Hillary might get me to view but not much else.\u00a0 I mean after the Swalwell fart it has all, more or less, been done.<\/p>\n

So here we are with a United States Presidential Election going on, hundreds of millions of Americans making up their minds who will wield the most powerful office of the most powerful nation that has ever existed.\u00a0 The occupant of this office, an office that has as one of its responsibilities deciding whether to launch a thermonuclear strike with the planetary extinction capability of the US nuclear arsenal, will be chosen by this process.\u00a0 And as the leading opposition candidates for that job we have Creepy Uncle Joe, Liarwatha, Bernie the Stalinist and Butt Pete.\u00a0 There is no other way to characterize the situation but as a bizarro world scenario.\u00a0 The classical description is Alice in Wonderland.\u00a0 We have a normal observer, Alice, confronted by a world where everything is inverted and the normal rules of nature are suspended.\u00a0 She struggles to cope with the inconsistency and outright madness but finds herself unable to do more than move from one absurdity to the next.\u00a0 In this analogy no one would try to make sense of the Mad Hatter or the Queen of Hearts.\u00a0 It would be futile.\u00a0 Admittedly some people find this amusing but a steady diet of this sort of thing results in the experience I noted at the beginning of this essay, jarring cognitive dissonance.<\/p>\n

To my mind the sensible way to address this election is to try and sway the Twenty Percent by highlighting the positive results and agenda of President Trump and exposing the absurd and dangerous positions and bizarre behaviors of his opponents.\u00a0 This is what the talking heads on the Right need to do.\u00a0 They need to pound away at Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi and the Deep State that handed them this hot mess.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to Bill Barr and John Durham to connect the dots on what the Russia and Ukraine scandals are really about.\u00a0 If it turns out that Hunter Biden was part of a bigger payday for the Obama administration then that will cook Joe Biden\u2019s goose for sure.\u00a0 But even without that I think we\u2019ll see our side prevail in 2020.<\/p>\n

For me this though this is not the mission.\u00a0 I preach to the choir.\u00a0 There\u2019s no need to bang that drum.\u00a0 You all know all this.\u00a0 My job is to provide my opinions and hopefully amuse.\u00a0 So, I don\u2019t want to bore anyone with logical arguments as to why the Democrats are wrong about this or that policy position.\u00a0 You all know they\u2019re the enemy. \u00a0I don\u2019t have to convince you.\u00a0 What I need to do is find some interesting things to discuss about the world we live in and make fun of the evil cretins who want to make us Orwellian slaves.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what I\u2019ll do, I will chronicle the evil, stupid, absurd and insane doings of the Progressives and their allies in the Media and the Deep State.\u00a0 That is my mission in the Alice in Wonderland Election.\u00a0 So down the rabbit hole we go.\u00a0 Hopefully we\u2019ll meet on the outside again after we wake from the nightmare.<\/p>\n

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