Where's my grievance-drenched rally?
The assumption was I would be around intelligent people. That was the main reason I paid a sum worth an upscale dinner to be a part of a recent countywide Democrat gathering. The string of speakers, including two congressional officeholders and one state representative, reinforced my assumption. Not an older white male among them, leaving the Gen. Z Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost to adroitly able to handle his growing rockstar aura without any indication of trying to outshine the two previous women headline speakers. Political gamesmanship seemed to have left the building.
The speeches outlined issues familiar with a political enthusiast lashed to the news cycle with a dash of rah-rah about getting organized and becoming committed to Democratic candidates. The conversations I briefly took part in or overheard underscored a current of anti-DeSantis and anti-Trump sentiment. Far from subdued or sleep-inducing, I imagined the affair was still a distance in frenzy from being at a Trump rally.
I've never been to one of those occurrences though I'm tempted. Being white and in the dominant age demographic, I figure I wouldn't have much trouble getting in especially if I wore a MAGA hat. If someone stopped me, likely someone from Newsmax or Breitbart (Fox news may have stopped such banality in fear of widespread vacuity from respondents.) and ask why I'm there, I would spout some anti-Biden slogan or deep-state missive staying attune with the sentiment of the crowd. Sill, like many others, I wouldn't be there to hear about issues facing America but to see a mad celebrity.
The latest in anomalous derangement to go with the "retribution" political kick by using the Justice Department includes building internment camps for people trying to cross the border and violating the Fourteen Amendment defining citizenship. To shuffle the fun mania maybe Trump should expand the execution call beyond former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley to include anyone who registered as a Democrat or can be determined a "vermin" leftist. Got to keep the fieriness of Trump gatherings video worthy.
Though the corporate media still thinks Trump rally goers are the grievance-burden hoi polloi, what more likely angers a supporter now is not having a sign and getting a few bucks to sit behind Trump at the podium and shake, rattle and roll at his utterances. To calm any possible indignation, maybe Trump should hire scantily clad females to come on stage carrying signs with slogans denouncing certain judges and prosecutors and, have them walk around in a tantalizing way like they do in second-tier boxing matches. Trump could find it difficult not to make lecherous faces and feign hand gestures toward their groin area. Would the Secret Service act quickly to remove a bikini-wearing femme standing close to Trump and ignore boos from the crowd?
Those who attend Trump rallies aren't the people who send threatening letters to election workers or hold quasi-military maneuvers in the woods. Those showing up for Trump want to brag about having a good time with other likeminded Trump supporters and dream of auditioning for some position on his team. Trump was and continues to be an entertainment vehicle. The media continues to treat him otherwise.
Any other American would be in jail if he or she uttered the threats Trump has made. Any other country would marginalize an autocratic party such as the Republicans and refuse to work with them on governing matters. The Democrats and their media supporters continue to live a trance, that America's two-party system isn't to blame, that archaic election rules of the slave-state appeasing Electoral College isn't to blame, that self-enhancing Senate rules giving one person a legislative rood block isn't to blame, that the principal mover of campaigns and governing priorities resides under the auspices of money as protected speech isn't to blame.
I'm an aggrieved person like those who treat the Big Lie as entertainment on equal footing as Big Foot and Loch Ness. I'm peeved that so much energy is given to Trump, a quickly aging martinet with demands and no discipline, and that most of the entrenched political leadership hides or runs from the problems affecting this nation. The media applauds ordinary voters for trying to hold on to their freedom yet insulates the political establishment from any sort of serious appraisal in how this social system works against itself and brought about a Trump. Not recognized is the fact Trump generates the context amid the ungovernable state of Congress for revolutionary change in the mechanism of democracy.
But I won't blame voters if they elect Trump again. I'll blame the politicians that allowed him to be voted on.