Are you familiar with the Biennio Rosso in Italy after WWI which swept Mussolini fascism into power? The powers that be set all sorts of obnoxious things in motion over two years to trigger a conservative backlash and crackdown. They deliberately provoked the citizenry to react, then engineered that into an overreaction. You know. That Hegel thing. They created problems that triggered reactions, then offered Mussolini as a solution.
And, yes. Those intolerable acts also miraculously stopped before Mussolini even took office.
The fact that I can recognize that those intolerable acts swept fascism into power, and say that those intolerable acts swept Il Duce into power, does
not mean that I find those intolerable acts tolerable, nor does it mean I approve of them. And if I find the nature of the backlash deplorable, that's no logical proof that I didn't see any deplorable things which deserved a backlash.
The same thing goes for Biden's Quadrennio Rosso. I don't resist reacting to the intolerable acts by installing Il Duce or El Donald because I want the intolerable acts to continue. I resist that because
someone is committing them specifically to manipulate me into doing that. So if I do that,
I'm rewarding them for setting the intolerable acts into motion and encouraging them to do it again and again, Hegel style
. Capiche?
If you want to channel Swordy and ASSUME things that make an ASS out of U, feel free -- but please leave ME out of it.
There were better candidates sitting them out. Who was the better candidate put up by the LP? It was going to be Dave Smith, but he sat it out. They made the greater evil so incredibly evil that people stuck to the Official Lesser Evil like super glue.
And the people who perpetrated all that crap got just what they wanted. Just what they were after. That does not put me in a good mood. Certainly not in a good enough mood to put up with being libeled by the people who obliged those evil asses.
But it's all good. To even imply that my disdain for the Deep State "solution" and the bandwagon they built to put it over somehow means that I approve of the intolerable acts used as a provocation, or that I don't approve of the righteously indignant reaction, is the kind of
@Swordsmyth-style binary non-thinking that I really don't believe you're capable of. Thanks for letting me clear the air with a rant.