Most everyone wants to be on he right side of things; the problem is discerning which is the wrong side to be on.
The COVID debacle is an example. It was difficult for many people to discern which side was the right side. Many probably thought they were on the right side, by siding with the experts who insisted everyone was facing the risk of death (and of transmitting death) if they didn’t wear a surgical mask over their face. The same experts insisted that everyone had to get “vaccinated” – though it was never explained why the big whoop over those who declined to be “vaccinated,” since the experts insisted that those who did get “vaccinated” were not going to get the bug the experts insisted was a threat to everyone’s life.
The point being it is difficult or many people to ignore – to defy – the experts. Especially when it appears that most people are in agreement with these experts and are doing what the experts say must be done. The push to get everyone to wear a “mask” was designed to do just that. If “masking” had been voluntary, a lot of people would not have “masked up,” and that would have made it harder to create the appearance of near-universal agreement that a deadly plague was on the loose.
In such a scenario, being on the right side is to be perceived as being on the wrong side. That’s how it was for the relative handful of people who did not believe the experts and did not do what the experts insisted must be done. Such people – the ones who refused to put surgical masks over their faces – were subjected to public scorn and even (in not a few cases) physical violence for doing the right thing.
That’s the thing. It is often difficult to do the right thing at the time when it really matters to be on the right side of things.
Another time is right now.
It is difficult for many to see that Trump is on the wrong side of things. Many of the people who voted for him did so because they believed he was on the right side of things. That he was going to put America first. That he was going to reduce the size and cost of the federal government and that the savings would be refunded to the Americans who had been forced to pay for it. Above all, that under his watch, America would not go tilting at foreign windmills.
It is easy enough to see that Trump is now on the wrong side of all of those things. The thing that was harder for many to see is that he was never on the right side of things.
Trump was president during the first year of COVID. His actions (and non-actions) were not on the right side of things. He said “two weeks to stop the spread” when he amen’d nationwide lockdowns, a prison term that has appallingly slipped into general usage outside of prisons – which means everywhere is now at least potentially a prison and for people who haven’t even been charged with any crime. It turned out to be for the rest of 2020 – and then some. He was very much on the wrong side, then. And those of us who were on the other side were on the right side – and vilified for it.
Trump wore the surgical mask – embossed with the presidential seal. This gave aid and comfort to the experts who insisted wearing surgical masks was not just advisable but a morally required thing to do. In other words, those who did not submit were morally despicable people. It is easy to want those who are morally despicable dealt with. It was something analogous to the way Good Germans wanted other Germans who didn’t go along with the rounding up of people who’d affronted the experts there dealt with.
Trump also declared an “emergency” over COVID – which could be forgiven, had he ended the “emergency.” He didn’t. That placed him firmly on the wrong side of things. It was the “emergency” that lead to mass absentee balloting and the counting of “votes” that had not been vetted. That assured the selection of Joe Biden and we got four more years of stopping-the-spread.
Is it really surprising that Trump has turned out to be on the wrong side of so many things again?
The question, then, is whether to be on the wrong side, with him again.
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A lot of people have called The Bad Orange Man a dictator, or at least a wannabe dictator. Yes, he has narcissistic and authoritarian tendencies. But he’s thankfully more incompetent than malicious. (The same is not true of his political opponents.)
It was his handling of COVID that convinced me so. You see, COVID was a golden opportunity handed to Trump on a silver platter to actually be dictatorial.
In the name of “stopping the spread,” he could have done some dictatorial things:
-He wouldn’t have had to worry about the 2020 elections being “stolen.” He could have just suspended the 2020 elections, first because “it isn’t safe to vote” and because “in a crisis, we need continuity of leadership, and we can’t change horses in midstream.” Kinda like what Zelensky did.
-He could have nationalized the health care system—the wet dream of Democrats (and a lot of Republicans too). “All your doctors and hospitals are belong to Uncle Sam: Health care is too important to leave to the private sector.”
-He could have sealed our borders with lethal military force and suspended all immigration.
-He could have used the military to enforce quarantines.
But he didn’t. What he did do was leave the lion’s share of COVID response to states, counties, and cities—and a lot of governors, state legislatures, county commissioners, mayors, and city councils actually did act like dictators.
Hillary, on the other hand, would have been very competent at doing dictatorial things.
‘Trump is now on the wrong side.’ — eric
A $1.15 trillion ‘defense’ authorization is moving through Clowngress now. But Trump requested $1.5 trillion for ‘our wonderful military,’ so a $350 billion supplemental appropriation is in the works too. Plus, the tab for the Iran war is approaching $100 billion, so that’s another supplemental.
Cumulated over decades, the exorbitant costs of projecting global power, with 800 foreign bases and vast inventories of obsolete, gold-plated weapons, are a vast malinvestment. As a result, in the 21st century China — which does not bear such costs — has definitively surpassed the US in industrial production, electric power production, and the like.
In effect, the ‘accidental empire’ the US inherited in 1945, as the only major country not heavily damaged in WW II, was our undoing. What a breeze, to rule the world! But the world turned out to a tar baby that won’t let go. Interest cost on the $39 trillion debt now exceeds the military budget — the so-called Ferguson limit, beyond which empires drown in debt.
Actually turning around the dying USA, by investing in future living standards and defending only our own borders, is not even on the table. Now, 250 years after the Declaration of Independence, the results are in: it failed, both economically and in terms of freedom. ‘Democracy’ US-style — a corrupt Uniparty with two warmongering zionist wings — is a suicide pact. And now the
chickensvultures have come home to roost.Donnie delenda est.
Trump is a dope, meaning he thinks things because he feels them, not knowing why, and lacking the information and intelligence to know better. It is the same kind of people that think Elon should be allowed to be a trillionaire. Why? They don’t know. He just shouldn’t because it doesn’t “seem” right.
Trump is a marketer. Not a developer, not a deal maker, not a leader, just a marketer. His entire career is defined by convincing others of his own greatness. And convince them he has.
The ride or die Trumpers can’t address the divergence in his actions from his campaign messaging. Also, they don’t want to. It is enough that he is famous and on “their” side. Nevermind that Trump is an only will be on Trump’s side.
He makes a connection with people because he says things that appeal to them. Blue collar workers have watched their factory jobs dwindle away. Trump expressed support for them when no one else did. Sure, he made things worse for working people by inflating the money supply, raising prices, and now doubling the price to fill your tank, but the wagon was already hitched.
Surprisingly the one area that his devotees do not line up is the covid shot. Trump was even booed at rallies when he brough it up. If the fan boys are awake enough to see the folly of that policy, why are they still so willfully blind to the rest of his errors?
“This gave aid and comfort to the experts who insisted wearing surgical masks was not just advisable but a morally required thing to do.”
EXCEPT, of course, in the case of the George Floyd riots… when the “experts” declared that the rioters could be granted absolution for failing to wear masks… because, you see, “racism” was a greater “health crisis” than COVID…
What a horrible time in history. I lost friendships over my refusal to buy into the fauci / trump / government / medical / pharmaceutical industrial bullshit. No doubt many here did too.
A nearby Trump rally saw him get booed for bragging about the “vaccine”. This is the same rally where he threw Rep. Mo Brooks under the bus & traded a conservative congressman for perky neocon Katie Britt. The man is petty and vindictive. Alabamians shoulda known after he threw Jeff Sessions under the bus.