Good Ideas About Bad People
Allegiance to ideas and not people spurs ideas about people who don’t think out anything. A flat tax won’t betray you like alleged Republicans who realizes how much fun it is to squander what’s plundered from you. Saviors sabotage your devotion to working for currency by making it easy to squander.
The only thing worse than worshiping individuals is worshiping these individuals. If nothing else, this unfortunate election offers best case possible against faith in very fallible putzes. And there is nothing else.
Doubling down on affiliation is the most telling way to avoid accepting reality. Trump suckers will be wearing two hats by the midterms. The lamestream media will try to divide the faithful by provoking an argument between those who overlap the bills to face in the same direction and double pointers.
Demanding allegiance is a symptom of arrogant insecurity. If those things don’t seem to go together, you should see the party that allegedly defends property rights. The only current Republican principle is winning, which is great unless you want to do something people who dislike our stupid government supposedly want. Beating a party that seemed to be committing insurance fraud feels like a rather hollow victory considering the next appalling Democrat will be able to gesture at everything that happens yet again.
Banana Republic offers better fits. A Third World kleptocracy demands pledging allegiance to a person, which is a novel take on the grade school recitation. Proclaiming that black and gold are the classiest colors is the only path to proving loyalty. It used to be about some country.
Principles don’t change even when unprincipled connivers do. Republicans suddenly decided free trade makes everyone poor. Meanwhile, Democrats oppose government taking its vig from nefarious mutually voluntary trade because Trump loves tariffs like adultery. I hope they’ll start hating massive government spending because he adores it.
Adulating bad ideas is no better than unpleasant overlords. Congregants must always resist the temptation of subscribing to wretched notions. The worst notions always need slick salesmen, which they think apply to worthwhile goods, too. Amazing schemes to reform society in Barack Obama’s image only fail because conglomerates charge more just because money is worth less. Liberals invariably think the issue with each of their failures is insufficient funding. Fork over more if you want to be rich.
Modern sophisticated cults replaced antiquated notions of creating wealth by offering value. You might think an alleged personal corporate behemoth would encourage more innovation. But he’s selling only his name in case you haven’t noticed since 1984. Seeing who’s foolish enough to buy has been a depressing hobby for a few too many decades.
Waiting for goods to fall from the sky shows a true devotion to the faith. It’s tough to maintain cargo cult membership when fuel’s too expensive to drive to the airport. True disciples remain undeterred that there’s not much of the former even despite dedication to the latter. Members are disappointed in themselves because they obviously aren’t ardent enough, as a government run by whoever wins one office would otherwise meet everyone’s needs for as long as we believed hard.
Praise based on a calculation may not be genuine. The creator knows. It’s not fun to debate whether it’s better to think a repulsive example of humanity is dreamily competent or if adherents just seek to get on the good side of false prophets. Ask who the bad guy was in 300 for amusing confusion. Weak fools know cheering for the one demanding kneeling is a show of power.
You might think the alleged ultimate business titan would be encouraging others to innovate their way to fortune. That’s because you don’t have an awesome name to slap on trash, including his campaign. Submission is an odd way to inspire. Do as commanded so you don’t challenge your golden idol by doing something productive.
Tracking who insulted their miserable guardian nurses the sort of grudges that surely lead to bliss. A focus on who’s genuflected properly is preferable when the goal is domination. Republicans who shriek how no dissenters are conservative naturally defend Social Security and Medicare not just because their liberal lion defends it but also as part of their commitment to relying on having needs met by their supposed protector.
Jonestown residents would be mortified by voters’ dedication to messianic twits. The worst possible choice of choices is particularly regrettable at a time when you can order any earthly cuisine you’d like to your door so you don’t have to pause whichever of 17.3 million streaming services you choose to put on Friends in the background. Parties couldn’t try harder to conduct an experiment showing zealotry’s downsides. It’s the only thing at which they’re skilled.
Tracking who refused to kowtow sufficiently is just for unity. We all must concentrate our hardest to help our chosen king with sweet vibes. Dissenters ruin utopia for the fervent. Maintaining tiresome grudges against humans with enough dignity to not prostrate themselves in front of a smirking buffoon shows how much progress we’ve made. Forget optimism, which is as foreign a historical notion as less debt.
