Waiting

"AGAINST STUPIDITY, the gods themseves contend in vain" (attributed to ancient Greek philosoher Agathon).."The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is somewhat limited" (Einstein). Years before the 2020 election, Donald Trump warned that if he lost, it would only be because the election was stolen from him. Priming the pump, grooming America, preparing for the worst. When he indeed lost, he played his "trump" card (pun intended), lied his big election lie, parroted by tens of millions of his sycophantic adoring supporters. In every state, the votes have been counted and recounted ad nauseum, by Republicans, Democrats, indempendents, computers, and accounting companies. Biden wins every time. Yet, Trump and his legions of liars refuse to cencede the elecion a year later, substituting poor sportsmanship and traitorous behavior for honor, honesty, and decency. No appeal to reason and simple decency is sufficient to convince the self deluded election lie mongers of the truth, nor ever will be. Pressed for more than a year to provide even a shred of evidence of election fraud, nary an itoa has been, and the Trumpers are resorting to a new tactic, one form of desperate dishonesty. Some of them now claim, astonighingly, that there indeed exists strong evidence of election larceny, and that it is in their possession. They claim that it was obtained from detailed examination of ballots and voting machines in several states. Predictably, this astonishing information cannot be revealed to the rest of us at present, but soon will be, they promise. The reasons for the current secrecy and delay in divulging have not been given, unsurprisingly. Thus we the uninformed masses must be content to wait for the enlightened few to grace us with revealed truth, like Christians awaiting the second coming of Christ, which Christ himself promised would take place within a generation of his death. Proof of election fraud will not be provided in the near future, not within the next two thousand years, according to any reasonable analysis, for it does not exist, and those who claim that it does are merely continuing the pathological dishonesty startd by Trump, taking it to a new level of weirdness. Our wait will be endless, like that of the Christians. Precisely what the delusion Trump believer hope to accomplich other than the assuaging of emmotional pain and enhancement of self esteem remains murky. Everyone alive now will eventually die, with the election fraud promise intact, and they will have run out the clock, and handed the secret informatin to a new generation of Trumpers, who will doubtless protect it like the Ark of the covenant.It is no more possible to persuade the devout to give up the ghost of Trump's lie than to convince Christians that Christ is way late, and not likely to show up soon, or ever. The christian devout will keep waiting for their lord, and the unbelieving but open minded, patient Trump skeptics will keep waiting for evidence of election fraud. None of us will ever receive what we are waiting for. The only difference is that we will be neither surprised nor disappointed.