The Victory Parade of Abject Ignorance

 When I got up this morning and turned on my phone, the first thing I saw was a New York Times article detailing the violent takeover of our national capital building, and my first response was an irrepressible burst of laughter. 

For a long while now, our president and our Republican representatives have been playing with matches, never stopping to fear or appreciate the immense stupidity of the common American people. For, you see, our president and our representatives were never serious about this "Stop the Steal" bullshit, aware that multiple recounts and investigations and court cases had clearly shown that there was no steal, that the election in fact was one of the most secure elections in American history. Nonetheless, they continued to spread lies for their own political interests, continued to light matches, continued to douse the grounds with kerosene and gosh I'll be darned if it didn't catch fire. Who knew? 

So as the gun toting, slogan shouting mob swarmed in through broken windows, the senators and the representatives ducked and cowered and ran, spirited away to safe locations. So much for standing up for their lofty cause (or any cause other than their personal safety). 

Of course, as I watched these events on video, I did not laugh anymore. The feelings I had were more purely of disgust, repulsion, outrage at every one of these dipshit 'patriots', the grand congregation of the hopelessly ignorant and deluded, pledged to serve a cause based on the demonstrable lies ultimately of one man: the President of the United States--who, by the way, bravely stepped to the mic during the riot to tell more lies! 

All along the way for the last four years we have had, crime after crime, outrage after outrage, the opportunity to rid ourselves of this man--but again, it seemed to those in power, apparently, all just a game, an innocent little power struggle to control the strings of government. It was all just words and misunderstandings and innocent "perfect" phone calls--and all the while, the incurably stupid gobbled those words and grew fat and belligerent. Wait, they believed this shit? Oh yes, they did. This, and more. They fed at the fetid troughs of the conspiracy theories, no matter how absurd, that spawned from the lies that were embraced and repeated by the president himself. Trump became just another word for brainless rage, emblazoned on flags that finally flew above the capital in Washington DC. 

President Obama has put it this way: "History will righty remember today's violence at the Capital , incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election, as a moment of great dishonor and shame for our nation. But we'd be kidding ourselves if we treated it as a total surprise." 

And that is the God's honest truth.