Fighting Delusion

IT BEARS REPEATING: Trump's supporters overwhelmingly embrace Trump's big election lie, and the lie that all of his legal difficulties, all the dozens of felony charges with which the former president is soon to stand trial, are nothing more than a witch hunt, a conspiracy to destroy Trump. Yes, they really believe all that, shockingly. I contend that they really don't,that,deep down, they know its all lies, but that they have sufficiently brain washed themselves to suppress, for the time being, this inconveneint fact. "Honest Don" was probably a joke by Trump, but one he would gladly embrace seriously. The more seriously they embrace this ironic, laughable moniker, which they surely will not dare to, the more hilarious and damning a joke Trump's opponents, including me, can make of it, the more fun we can have with it. It also bears repeating that when Trump announced, on election night, before the votes had been counted, that "actually, we won the election", and then double-billion downed on it to this day, he committed a very serious crime, one for which he should, if there is justice in the universe, pay dearly. In any reasonable system of justice, such a lie, and the ensuing insurrection would be and are punishable by death, or in the event that the death penalty is banned, by life in prison without parole. That's what makes continued support of Trump so egregeious, arguably, effectively aiding and abetting criminal activity. I encounter Trump supports daily. Most of them are strangers, but several are good friends of mine, perhaps because we do not discuss politics. As the election approaches that may change. If it does, I will stick with my main theme, my main message, that, no matter who you are, you are much too good to support a person like Trump. I will mention the untter inevitability of the necessity of finally, at long last, abandoning him. Its never too late, although at this point, it sure as hell is later than it should be. The racism which so obviously underscores and partially explains Christian conservative support for Trump they also supress and deny, even to the point where they want to prohibit teaching it,indeed forbid its mere mention in public schools, in an attempt to not only erase it from their own awareness, but everyone else's, society's. The Trump agenda includes outlawing being gay, punishable by incarceration or death, deporting or imprisoning all illegal immigrants, banning abortion, denying climate change and bringing back coal, and establishing Christianity as official. One cannot imagine a more frightening, horrible agenda, but that is precisely what not only the "far right", but mainsstream Christian conservatism advocates. To achieve it, they are willing, indeed eager to eect a criminally insane criminal to the presidency, then, give him unlimited power. That is what we face, as a nation. I intend to mention all this to anyone who will listen, most especially Trump supporters. I also intend to remind people thath Biden's State of the Union speech proved, conclusively, that he has plenty of energy,and plenty of healthy intelligence. No, I do not plan to start converstations about Trump with Trumpers. But casually mentioning that "We all know that Biden won the election" will suffice.