Random Musings on this All Midterms' Eve
Hot on the heels of All Hallows' Eve comes an even spookier holiday!
My head has been bursting with all manner of cold calculations and hot takes when it comes to the State of the Union World. Truth be told, it has actually stymied my output, as there are so many things to tackle it’s nigh-impossible to know where start… and even more challenging to know where to end. Each time I naively poke my head into some new notion I end up tumbling head-over-heels down a rabbit hole like our beloved Alice.
As Zeus is my witness, I shall make my way back from Wonderland with those finally finished articles at some point, but for now, on account of the holiday (All Midterms’ Eve! Democrat tricks guaranteed. Treats to be determined.) I decided to just go ahead and jot down a couple musings for your consideration.
1) There are basically two groups in American politics at the moment:
Group A) The authoritarian, anti-American, anti-science, anti-1A, anti-2A, anti-Constitution, anti-working class, pro-infanticide, pro-war, hyper-racist, dangerously and deliriously delusional Democrat Borg Collective.¹ (I neglected several pejoratives, but let’s just leave it there to be chartiable. Plus, I’m tired of adding links.)
Group B) Everyone else. We already have the now-familiar Republican rogues’ gallery of classical conservatives, populists, Bible-thumpers, libertarians, neocons, and sundry other miscellany, but now there is a burgeoning coalition being cobbled together that also includes the heretical sane (as I like to call them) who have fled from the increasingly insane DNC madhouse as it collapses in on itself like the House of Usher. From Tulsi to Taibbi. Lindsay to Lozano. Musk to Maher. Van Drew to Dore. Yang to Greenwald. It seems to me we have seen all manner of individual who historically align with the Democratic side of the aisle—including two popular, young Democratic presidential candidates in the last election—either mercilessly deriding the Democratic Party or outright rejecting it and sprinting away.²
2) We need to get back to bad. Everything is relative, and at this point, America has been dragged down to such horrifying, Stygian depths that we can’t even look up and see “bad” from here, let alone “great.” It’s like going into Final Jeopardy 31 trillion dollars in the hole: we just need to get an answer (question?) or two right so we can start clawing our way back to good ol’ zero. In this case, the deranged, dystopian-dervish Democrats have done so much damage that a return to the halcyon days of generic, glad-handing, ‘80s-movie-villain, Republican crony capitalism might as well be the triumphal return of Washington from Yorktown.
That’s why I say forget MAGA for now. We are not going to make America great again from down here. I say embrace MABA! MAKE AMERICA BAD AGAIN, baby! It may not have the same… zazz, a certain je ne sais quoi, as MAGA, but we have to be pragmatic. “Bad” would be a vast improvement from where we find ourselves now, and this going to take time over several phases.
First, we climb our way up from “catastrophic” to maybe, say, “terrible.” Then, God willing, we can salmon-ladder our way up another notch or two until we get back to “bad.” Again, marked improvement. High fives all around. MABA, baby, let’s go! Once we get there, we can dust off the trusty, Fred Durst-inspired, red MAGA caps and shoot for the stars… bigly.
And on that optimistic note, Happy All Midterm’s Eve, everyone!
Footnotes:
¹ Don’t worry. I know: some of those links aren’t from Ministry of Truth approved sources. Work with me here. Read the actual content and make use your own critical thinking skills (even though it will anger the Thought Police over at the NY Times). And I know: “but Trump!” And I know: “but Jan. 6!” Believe me: I know. If these are things that you feel override my other concerns, then, my friend, we shall agree to disagree. At least for now, as I shall try to extrapolate on some of those points down the line, and win you over to my way of looking at things.
² Yes, not everyone in the “Miscellaneous” group is perfectly aligned. Or even much aligned at all in normal times. But, these are strange days. And politics makes for strange bedfellows. Of course, some of that group will certainly fracture over time into smaller subsets, some—I suspect—familiar, some—I suspect—novel. And yes, we will have to remian vigilant against any tyrannical machinations any of those groups may, in turn, manifest when the time comes.
Well, except for those loveable libertarians, but they have other issues.
Your formulation of the sides reminds me of the Spanish Civil War, for better or worse.
If Orwell had to do it again, he’d side with the anarchists. ;)