We are now into the third year of what must be the longest-running "Gish Gallop" in
recorded history. "Gish Gallop"is a technique, named after the creationist Duane Gish who employed it, whereby someone argues a cause by hurling as many different half-truths and no-truths into a very short space of time so that their opponent cannot hope to combat each point in real time. A simpler way of describing it is: shovelling bullshit so fast and in such huge quantities that the target of it is overwhelmed.
It is difficult not to feel like we are being suffocated with lie after lie after lie and immoral disgrace after immoral disgrace. I wonder if continuing to "discuss" the daily cascade of outrages has become the problem.
What, really, is left to discuss? Have we learned anything about Trump in the last 6 months that we did not already know?
It seems to me that we know with absolute certainty that Trump is totally and irredeemably incompetent.
We know that he is steadily destroying our government and that things are getting worse with each passing day.
We know that everyone working for or with Trump, most assuredly including Pence, is, by that fact, disqualified from serving in any governmental position.
We know that only the threat of losing their own individual fortunes and power will ever cause Republiicans in the Senate to vote to convict Trump if he is impeached.
We know there are considerably more of us than them.
We know that "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing."
It is time, IMHO, to stop obsessing about how rotten Trump is and concentrate on "convincing" the Republican Senators that pissing off Trump isn't going to be nearly as harmful to them, personally, as continuing to support him. Nonviolent civil disobedience, embarrassing opposition research, organized "greeting parties" to confront them each time they appear in public---all this in addition to recruiting, funding and working to elect Democrats to their seats.
"That's a lot", you say? There are a lot of us. If we focus our time and effort on getting rid of Trump instead of "discussing" WHY we should get rid of him, we might be surprised at what could be accomplished.
I don't have the resources or contacts to organize it myself, but we SHOULD clog the streets of DC and the Mall one Saturday in May---the 25th, say. And, maybe we should find out what a tent city---a la Occupy---would look like near the reflecting pool. If we stay "nice", we're gonna get run over.
Got my asbestos suit on, so flame away.
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because of all the gaslighting!
