Re: POTUS 45.11: Attack! Repeat. Atrack!!!
This will test Kepler's theory of who really is the majority in this country. We'll find out. And frankly it's the Democrats only hope cause appealing to reason hasn't worked and will never work.
The majority in this country, and every country, is on auto-pilot. They vote for a party for the same reason they root for a team or have a religion. They picked it up from the culture they grew up in. They aren't reasoning politically -- they aren't reasoning at all. They are taking in stimulae and filtering it through Kantian categories impressed on the wax of their infant minds by their parents, and their thoughts reinforce their preconceptions because both come from the same factory.
Divide adult citizens into equal thirds by intelligence, or more politically correct by educational achievement. Ignore the non-major parties for simplicity. The top third ("animal") is about 70/30 Democratic, the middle third ("vegetable") is about 70/30 Republican. The bottom third ("mineral") is the
Deliverance throwback -- but it doesn't vote or really participate in public life much at all. Occasionally the GOP finds a gimmick to activate a small portion of it; Evangelical Christianity was the last one. But for the most part it, like Cthulhu, waits dreaming in its La-Z-Boy with the built-in cupholders.
Education and social caste used to cut across political ideology. Only since the GOP's
Great Stupification, going into overdrive with Rush and O'Reilly, has the vegetable portion of the electorate become predominantly conservative. The Republicans used racism and tub-thumping fundamentalism to pull over ahem "cultural" (white nationalist) voters. People above the intellectual Mendoza line gravitated either to the Democrats or to abstruse libertarian sects.
With Trump in the White House and the GOP with a chokehold on our democracy the Vegetables are in control, now, for the first time in American history. There are no adults in the room. So when Trump and the GOP fail bigly the Vegetables will either slink off and become apathetic (let's hope) or they'll dive down to the mineral level and activate the Orcs. That's how real authoritarian states operate. Mussolini and Hitler only held the Vegetables' allegiance long enough to get hold of the mineral substratum that exists species-wide, evenly distributed across the entire globe. The common enemy of all mankind; the id; the Hessian Steppenwolf.
