Herd Liability
Donald Trump ran on a platform that advanced the return of manufacturing to the US but when the opportunity to do just that - force the rich to manufacture goods during a pandemic when PPE and testing is needed the most and the executive has the most authority possible - Trump not only ran from using that power to manufacture here in the US he uses his power to enrich himself and his cronies.
Trump handed trillions to the wealthy and pitted states against each other instead of rising to the occasion. He stole PPE from one state then doled it out to others in a blatant abuse of power.
In the movie “M’ a character plays a child murder who has peace from the voices in his head only during the moments when he’s luring then murdering an innocent child but Trump and many Americans have neither voices in their heads nor do they achieve peace even for those fleeting moments while they contemplate murdering others. They have Fox News in their heads.
These are the… citizens who’s thoughts are programmed by Fox News then poured into their brains. I doubt that even they know where their reasons and actions came from, they only know their TV told them to behave that way. They envy the money amassed by the shills who parrot humans on TV so that’s good enough for them.
On the other hand are those who watch the diversions of life, the parodies of situation comedy, the pablum of public radio, and from the safety of their families they mimic life insulated from the reality of the world and the stagnation of the US under the sovereign rule of lies, innuendoes, and diversions.
Donald Trump isn’t a leader of Americans as much as he is cattle driver, a singing cowboy driving his cattle to market. The pandemic revealed that life of an American isn’t worth very much and since neither the left nor the right knows what to think they’ve lost the ability to discern the truth.
When the right called for the opening of the country from lockdown without the means to track and prevent another flare up of Covid-19 cases my first thought was they were calling for voluntary gelding. They were the Cows for Gelding Society. Don’t think. Just do as your told and we’ll handle the problems for you. Don’t worry, we can be trusted (even though there’s ample evidence that they’re not to be trusted). Don’t be a maverick, be a steer and we’ll take care of you. Herd immunity is what you’ll get.
The only thing worse than Trump and his admirers are the citizens who feel more comfortable with Biden over a Sanders or a Warren. Posturing for stability and trying not to rock the boat are not going to change the US, and the positions that Warren and Sanders took are not as radical as many citizens believe.
Of course Biden could nominate Warren and take the hot air out of much of the republican’s talking points, exchanging them for another, but I think it would work by uniting progressives with centrist Democrats.
So go back to your infotainment Americans. Vote but don’t vote to upset the status quo because you’re afraid of being even more marginalized. There’s a reason why music, art, and society hasn’t changed much over the last thirty years. There’s a reason why sampling & resampling old hits over and over added to synthesized singing is the only thing you’ll hear on the radio.
The slaughterhouse awaits. What have you got to lose? You gave up your freedom before you were born. The fascists, the neo-nazis, and the 1% own us all now and if you don’t go back to work during a pandemic, then you’re not going to get $1200, you don’t get to pass “Go”, and don’t get to keep a roof over your head.