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It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Thursday, May 2, 2019

Democrats can't hear the laughter ...

That’s too bad.  It might wake them up to reality. 

It’s not going to take long before a large part of the country – perhaps a majority – moves on from being pissed by Democrats’ bad behavior, to bafflement, to downright ridicule and mocking.

Democrats don’t get it; they don’t see their party’s pushing closer to that line, every day. 

They’re still claiming Trump is a Russian asset – a stooge of Vladimir Putin. That Russians changed the outcome of the last election.  That Barr lied about the Mueller investigation to protect Trump. That Trump’s a white supremacist directly responsible for a rise in reported hate crimes. 

And my personal favorite: that unless we stop using fossil fuels the world will end in 12 years – or 10 according to one Presidential wannabe. That's right: the entire world.  

You can’t make this up. But they clearly have. And they’re okay with that.   

You’d think at some point Democrats in Congress would realize their unrelenting hyperbole about everything makes them look like buffoons. Especially when there’s absolutely no evidence for their claims; in fact, when there’s ample evidence to the contrary. 

Maybe I’m giving them too much credit. Maybe there aren’t any more rational adults left among Democrats in Congress.  It sure appears that way. 

Hearings become tantrums. They see a monster lurking in every closet, even when the lights are on revealing nothing there. They make outrageous claims they know aren’t true.  They cry wolf and impending apocalypse over every little thing. Every innocuous bump in the night, every creak in the floorboards, every word out of context, is a clear sign to them of the end of days. 

Or, at the very least, the end of our democracy.    

And these are not just the Democrats running for President. These are the Democrats elected to the Congress to help govern the country. What were their constituents thinking? Were there no adults available as an alternative?     

At first blush, these Democrats can alarm you – could some of what they’re saying actually be true?  The media seems to think so … or wants them to be true for whatever reason.   

Yet when the facts come in and there’s no “there” there, you’re annoyed and maybe even angry. But as their nonsense continues you finally realize they’re no more than children or at best arrested-development adolescents playing imaginary games, against imaginary foes.

They’ve gotten lost in the game.  They think it’s real – all the monsters, goblins, magic swords, and secret spells – but it’s still just a stupid game, played badly. With our money. 

They take it all so seriously. And themselves so seriously.  Which makes it even funnier.   

Now a lot of us just laugh at their antics. The more off the wall they get, the more hilarious they become. They’re like the crazy neighbor on a sitcom who wears tinfoil under their hat to keep the government from reading their mind. That neighbor always has a conspiracy theory for everything – from the moon landing to why there’s fluoride in the water.    

You know they’re nuts. The audience knows they’re nuts. But they truly think what they believe – no matter how ridiculous – is real.  They’re the only one who knows “the truth.”       

That’s the joke.  That’s why you laugh at them.    

That’s where I am.    

Democrats embarrassed themselves in the Kavanaugh hearings. They’ve embarrassed themselves in the Senate’s hearings with AG Barr about the Mueller report.  The Democrat contenders for the 2020 nomination continue to embarrass themselves daily. The foolishness keeps coming. 

For me, it’s a comedy marathon that never seems to end.  I can’t take them seriously anymore.  It’s just too damn funny to see them make fools of themselves, time and time again. 

Thanks for the laughs, Democrats.  Too bad you can’t hear it.

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