Off With Their Heads

The Awfulness of Personal Political Exclusion

You see it all over social media and in the legacy media, woke/progressive/whatever-you-want-to-call-thems announcing to the world they will never ever interact with anyone they think may have voted for Donald Trump.

They won’t talk to them, they won’t be near them, and won’t have sex with them (or maybe even any man until the patriarchy symbolized by Trump is gone.)  

A person can choose – really, for whatever reason – to associate or not with other people.  It is sad when those decisions are made for political reasons by narcissistic one-dimensional humans who have no sense of history or any idea how society works or any sense of proportion or the ability to understand the difference between reality and evil, but so be it.

It’s a free country…and that’s the point.

If, as those (in many cases, thankfully) people who have aggressively decided to leave us alone for the rest of our lives, are doing so because they think Trump is a fascist, then they are not only unsocialized monsters, but also very very stupid.  

Why stupid?  At least two reasons, the first being socio-tactical.

If you are convinced of the currently engorging political apocalypse, would you not want to warn other people about it?  Or, at least, try to convince people that you are right and trot out arguments and facts and such to convince others of your position?  And that is is something you cannot do if you break off all contact with the people you see as bad – you’re not even taking your ball and going home, you’re just going home and leaving the field as is.  In other words, let those you consider fascists run up the score – now, by your own definition, that’s actually evil cowardice

Now, this does bring up another issue – what if the people who are cutting off others somewhere, deep inside, know they really can’t make any coherent, convincing argument to change even one other opinion?   

Or what if they have become so used to bullying people into silence they have lost the ability to even try to create such an argument?  Can they only find intellectual solace in “shut up” words?   

And cutting someone off is the ultimate “shut up.”

Narcissists and their sub-conscious do not have a terribly pleasant relationship (unless they are just straight up sociopaths and then it’s easy because they have none.)  But, at some evolutionary lizard brain level, if their narcissism is being told by the rest of their consciousness that they may not be right at all they tend to react rather psychologically violently (unless of course they listen and re-assess…pretty rare, that.)

The inchoate rage directed at others is a manifestation of the unacknowledged rage they feel towards themselves.

That’s not to say every anti-Trump person is full of rage or completely wrong.  Trump has a personality tailored to irritate most people, he has made many missteps (including the fact he was unprepared for office in 2016,)  and if you are left of center you – with absolute propriety and justification -  do not at all agree with many of his policies.

I agree with most, but certainly not all.

And that’s fine – but turning a political disagreement into a life-shattering event would have been – until very recently – practically inconceivable.  Why is it happening now?

First, the angriest folks right now are the same people who demand to be treated like children, who demand safe spaces and speech codes, and who have been coddled (or terrified of being socially bullied) for much of their lives. They cannot imagine something not happening the way they want it to.

The reaction is akin to that of a parental divorce, emphasis on the fact that many people currently see the government as their parents.

Second, Trump is not necessarily the most likable guy, let alone everyone’s cup of tea.  Going back 50 years, he has generated a great deal of ill will, some of it deserved.

Third, there is the issue of trickle down psychosis.

Even if one knows it is untrue garbage designed to frighten/manipulate you to think a certain way, there is no question that the legacy media’s ceaseless drumbeat of “evil, fascist stupid, trashy, evil” over the past nine years has gotten to people and some far more than others.

For Trump supporters, the stream of invented invective has actually reinforced their support of him by turning him into a victim, a martyr.

For opponents, it has spiraled and spiraled and spiraled them into a position where rational thought (and not just about politics, as we see) has become impossible.

Beyond the socio-tactical-psychological reasons for the woke’s Great Rending, it could actually simpler to explain:  they have no idea what they are talking about.

Remember, Trump has already been president – they’ve seen the reality of what he has and will do and that is not and was not fascist/totalitarian/authoritarian or any other -arian or -ism.  He is/was a populist conservative with libertarian leanings and an outrageous personality who wants to radically transform government and people can agree or disagree about these positions and that goal.

No big  deal – that’s politics.

So imagine, for a moment, Trump was/is an actual fascist.  Here, amongst other things, is what would have happened in his first term:

·         There would have been no 2020 election (just blame covid.)

·         Even if there were, none of the last-minute election rules changes that benefited his opponent would have been allowed to occur.

·         The NSA, FBI, and CIA would be his biggest supporters, not his biggest enemies.

·         Portland, Oregon would be a radioactive smudge that no one ever is allowed to talk about ever again.

·         The New York Times would have become the New York Trumps.

·         Amtrak would be turning a profit.

And, most importantly, we would not be hearing about the people currently cutting off their friends and families solely because they are Trump supporters.

In fact, we would not be hearing anything negative about Trump because those people would be gone by now.

That’s actual fascism and none of that happened and it will not happen in the coming four years – there will be no camps or speech oppression(remember, the only government that has the explicit authority to set up “camps” is Democrat-controlled New York, putatively for public health reasons and speech oppression has been pushed by the deep woke.

 The funny thing is that those who are cutting people off could be engaged in their own “personal fascism.”  Or at least unhinged totalism.

In “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” the Queen of Hearts had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. “Off with his head!' or “Off with her head!” or “Off with their heads!” she would say, without even looking around.

As to the character herself, Lewis Carroll once said he “pictured to myself the Queen of Hearts as a sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion – a blind and aimless Fury.”

And what does that look like?

Seem all too familiar?