Irrationality, and the insane cruelty that flows from it, is, to me, the most terrifying force in the world.  Destroy objective reality, replace it with a violent fantasy that makes no sense, and you can get some people to do anything.  The project of the far-right “Libertarian” Koch network, for generations, has been to create an eternal battle of subjective, antithetical worldviews.   Truth is what we say, the courts and all critics are enemies to be destroyed, if they don’t accept our side of our irrefutable truth. 

Example: the Jews control the world and are manipulating majoritarian tyranny by convincing stupid colored people to do their bidding in a fake election-based “democracy”.  Any election we lose, that’s why.  When we win, even by 1%, that is a mandate, a historically powerful mandate, the true, irrepressible voice of the People, speaking as one in support of the Leader.

Consider the perfection of this loop: if you say that I always need to be right, and that I’ll lie to destroy you if we are in a conflict, then this proves that YOU always need to be right and are lying to destroy me. Therefore, it’s a draw, which makes me right. People who love you (if there are any such creatures) may believe your lies, everybody else will believe my truths.

Once everything is reduced to the realm of feelings, loyalty, love, communal obedience, good/evil, black/white, there is no factual basis for deciding anything. True faith settles every question, and faith, the faithful are told, is a far greater thing than the vanity of those who cite the so-called facts of a difficult and dangerous world. The only safety in such a world is the sanctuary of true belief.

In our current predicament, I’ve been taking some consolation in the sheer stupidity, incompetence and blind adherence of those loyal to a grandiose, pathologically greedy, perpetually enraged fool and his “transactional” worldview. I am thinking now that this consolation may be misplaced. Stupid people, angry stupid, manifestly unqualified people, those incapable of weighing facts reasonably, are capable of the worst atrocities imaginable. This is particularly true if they are given unchecked power to carry out their leader’s most insane plans.

My old friend had told me when her husband, who hadn’t consulted her, informed her that Seedj and I might be amenable to mediation: “I fell on the kitchen floor and literally couldn’t move until it was time to walk to my car and drive to work.”

When I reminded her of this, she angrily told me I was lying. “Daniel must have told you that, it never happened, he was lying.” No, actually you told it to me. “I never said it, you’re lying.” I gave her the context, reminded her when she said it. “You’re lying, that never happened.” A moment later she said “I remember exactly how it happened and it was nothing like what you said. Dolly was there, and when Daniel told me he’d talked to you about mediation I did fall on the floor, but not for the reasons you said. It had nothing to do with mediation. I was just so sick of all this talk of ‘feelings, feelings, feelings’!”

And so she won that battle, ending our long friendship finally. She had already convinced all of our common friends that I’d been sadistically torturing her innocent husband for over a year to “bend him to my will” and that, in spite of countless apologies from her and her husband, I refused to forgive them. Set and match. The facts? What actually happened, who said what to who, who behaved with cruelty and who attempted to make peace? Totally irrelevant. We all believe in love, community, loyalty and forgiveness. We can never forgive someone who can’t forgive.

An angry insistence on the irrational is deadly. We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence, it’s obvious by the fact we can’t produce it that the (fill in the pejorative blank) stole and destroyed the evidence, otherwise we’d easily win this case. We are not lying, and 42% of Americans believe we are not lying, as our poll clearly shows. Therefore, the prosecutors, judges, grand juries, witnesses, the laws themselves are the fucking liars and WE WILL NEVER BOW TO FUCKING LIARS! Welcome to MAGA, boys and girls.

Even language itself is destroyed in this fusillade of incoherence. The goons call themselves conservatives. Conservatives traditionally want to preserve the status quo. MAGA is explicitly a radical, far-right reactionary movement. They want to restore a status quo that was overruled by decades, if not centuries, of a march toward a more perfect union. They want the original union, with the right of the White Man to rule his women, his children, his racial and social inferiors. Is there anything conservative about a group that is actively decapitating our democracy by illegal means? Not remotely.

To those not familiar with the Nazi seizure of power, once they hear the details they’re shocked by the one on one, on the nose, identical nature of what Project 2025 is carrying out.  Purge the civil service, institute loyalty oaths to the leader, act with brazen ruthlessness to demoralize enemies, imprison critics, start killing people.  If the leader says it’s a moral imperative to kill people, who are we subordinates to argue with someone sent by God?  The “logic” of the Third Reich was also identical to Trump’s incoherent exposition of reality — anything that suits the Leader is true, all else, lies punishable by a violent, sadistically imposed slow death.  As the First Amendment still allows me to write and post here: fuck those fucking Nazi putos.