B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for November 24, 2024

yup

If you fail to give people hope, someone will fill it with fear and fear is a far easier emotion to cultivate and doesn’t require the truth to do.

So now thems is back to floating stone tablets eh.

The ol’ scapegoat method of government. Easy to always find a people/group to unite folk against.

The tide goes out, the tide comes in.

The USA has two cohesions of people about 51% for one and 49% for the other. In Canada it is more like 20% for one and 80% for the other.

It is closer than most think it is

When democratic nations have as extremely toxic battles for votes as we saw this year in America, cohesion is simply not going to happen. Both candidates were politically weak, with nothing to make them better candidates than thousands of others in this nation of a third of a billion people. IMHO, we have had only two great presidents in my lifetime: Kennedy and Reagan. Even they were human, with feet of clay. Now we have a president-elect with a heart of clay and a head of… well, clay. The devil of it is that he is not as stupid as his speeches suggest, but he can’t get past the politics. Not a strong mind.

Pogo had the answer: We have met the enemy and he is us. Truer words were never spoken.

Generous applications of crazy glue?

The tide that binds!!!!

“Gauls at the Gate”

The only thing to fear is fear itself

As with all the ills of empire, it eventually comes home. The enemy is now your neighbor. Cohesion? Cohesion of smaller groups among a fragmented society. And that lesser cohesion is strengthened by rabble-rousing against other groups.

So she was the enemy?

And it is us…!

Yup … angles and demons … and we’re caught in the middle, but it is our U.S. Politician Democracy.

Foreigners are sending us tablets spying on our social behaviors before they IMMIGRATE! (sarcasm, too important to abbreviate as /s)

We’re proof you can fool all the people all the time. Best if each of us save up to pay our portion of The National Debt.

Welcome to MAGA World. Cultivated by Confederate/Nazi World. Seriously, Nazi youth marching through an Ohio town cowardly pepper spraying those with courage to mock their idiocy? Where truth doesn’t matter, as long as they have a group to join that will make them feel better about their miserable selves. Rally around an incompetent boob, racist, rapist who would have been serving a life sentence decades ago if he hadn’t been born to wealth and privilege. Make them feel superior to people that are their equals, just cause skin color and/or gender. You know, white male or white male adjacent, such as the white women that felt confident enough to vote for abortion rights in their own states, but then vote for the people that will make sure they lose those rights.

Sigh. We can only hope they can wake up and realize going through life awake ‘woke’ if you must, with ones eyes open is much preferable than being slaves thinking they are free. I suppose, some of them will be allowed to be more free than others. Which is why women are attacked first. We are perceived as being weaker, and some societies have gone out of their way to make them so. They are going to find self assured American women are going to be far harder to ‘put into their place.’

One thing for sure, the weakest men are born from oppressed and abused women. They conflate violence with strength, toughness. It is not. Violence is born from fear, which is a weakness of mind.

My thanks for all the men that have chosen to not worry about being ‘real’ men, whatever that means, and have chosen to become good men.

They also serve who only look fearsome.

those made of pumice??

Indeed we have had too many elections based on fear, fear stoked by lies.