What will it take to break Republicans from Trump?
By Sid Schwab / Herald columnist
No matter in what way one believes humankind came into existence, its current state shows the process was anything but perfect. Unable to grasp the rarity, the obligations of being alive, if ever so briefly, a subset of humans is ruining it, through selfishness, rancor and intentional ignorance. Enough of them, anyway, to outweigh those who’ve managed to rise above outdated, primitive and destructive instincts. Even in the minority (we’d like to think), they’re capable of destroying what we’ve been given. And they’re trying.
Perhaps there’s a reason — evolutionary or creationist — that there lingers among so many the need to give cultish, unquestioning devotion to authoritarian figureheads such as Trump. “Drink the Kool-Aid,” after all, came from people so willing to submit to Jim Jones that they self-extinguished when asked. Small, isolated cults have always been around, often ending in mass suicide. Heaven’s Gate was another. As difficult as it is to explain such people, they’ve tended to leave the rest of us mystified but unaffected.
The cult of Donald Trump, on the other hand, threatens us all. And not just one at a time, like people who fly rainbow flags or wear unwhite skin, but as a country, and, ultimately, as they deny climate change, as a species. Surrendering to primordial instinct, genuflecting to Trump, a mendacious, solipsistic, embittered man, they’ve closed their minds to what it portends. In our lopsided democracy, they have all the power they need.
What explains the persistence of this deferential defect? Unless one believes a creator made us in his image and, therefore, must be imperfect (because we are), it argues for evolution. No evolutionist suggests it has achieved perfection; once-beneficial, now-destructive behaviors remain, to our detriment. Who knows why?
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If that's what Chump wants - he's not getting it. As for the MAGA-Qanon-ChumpHumpers, they just have to start thinking this through. And I know that's asking a lot. If Rupert Murdoch's fake news machine would just shut up for a few days, it wouldn't be long before the cult settles down and starts thinking normally again. I'm thinking about a 1 week break from Faux Noise would be enough.
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