Then why don't you just trust the math and let him live in his echo chamber?
"Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake!"
I'm starting to think that people on the Left get off on fear-mongering like the people on the right do.
I'm not sating that the D's should let off the gas. But just let the Orange Moron do his thing and basically ignore him. It's his lackey's at the state level or in congress that are going to do electoral damage (most likely Voter Suppression). Go after them with the aggressive campaigns. You can basically let Cheeto do the work for ya by just letting him talk and then put those soundbites in the ad campaign.
Because there is no "math." Political calculations make assumptions about the rationality of political actors. But here that is irrelevant.
We like our ideas because they protect us from the irrational. They put a picture frame around real life and soothe us into thinking we have, if not control, at least predictive mechanisms. And because since the Enlightenment, and particularly since the state bureaucratizing of much of mundane life in the 1800s, we actually live a stage removed from real life in a network of rational exchanges, our models hold up okay. They pass the correspondence test: they have a good track record of predictions.
But always, always, always remember: our ideas are
not reality. Our sociology and politics and economics, our laws, our religions, even our language, are just stuff we have been reinventing for thousands of years. There is a real world beneath them, and it dwarfs them the way the whole Earth dwarfs its crust. We live in a carefully manicured, artificial environment with street signs and stop lights on the side of a volcano.
Dump is the volcano. Our ideas are not binding on pure human fear, cowardice, malice, and fury. Our math is not meaningful except as a sad attempt to rationalize what happens after the fact.
Surely you didn't think the stuff in your head with straight lines and balanced equations was real? It only explains the natural world of objects we can move around, but the entire essence of humanity -- our Dasein -- is that we rip through the illusion of objects and laugh maniacally. We are Will. We are what happens when you strip away all the desperate attempts to reason.
That's why Dump, and all the Dumps before him, are so intoxicating. There actually is an authenticity in them, although of course it escapes them. It's
the absolute freedom of utter irresponsible, irrational I Want.
