Why doesn’t the DNC assail Trumpian tyranny?
By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, June 13, 2025 – Surface reasoning is a fatal flaw common to the professionals who announce Democratic party policy, strategy, and tactics. They see only the surface of things and betray no interest in an examination of why things appear the way they do. Today’s red-hatted party uses the DNC like a trampoline to reach unimaginable heights.
When we accept the appearance of reality, which streams continuously from the screens we’re never without, we’re as likely to bump into lampposts as we are to wade into quicksands of inanity.
Language, the faculty that differentiates us from our fellow animals, is a precision tool that works only when its speakers are in general agreement about definitions, rules of grammar, and spelling.
America is the nation that owes its revolutionary birth to the overthrow of monarchy. It is utterly irrelevant that a certain king was the next proximate cause of our rebellion. The colonial patriots we owe so much to may or may not have hated a king named George lll; what united them and fueled the revolutionary war was their inborn love of personal liberty, which today remains the avowed enemy of illiberal, conservative, schemes of governance, including monarchy.
The American Revolution wasn’t waged only against a monarch driven mad by arbitrary, inherited power. It was waged to liberate, not just the colonists, but the whole human race, not only from monarchy, but from all forms of tyranny.
“Here is the home of man – here is the promise of a new and more excellent social state than history has recorded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,…” Statue of Liberty, via Emma Lazarus
Thanks entirely to surface reasoning, two out of the last three presidential elections have been won by the thinnest thinker in the history of thought. He wins because people don’t look beneath the screen of deception that has streamed continuously since the illiberal, conservative martinets of the Republican party welcomed him to their tent show ten years ago.
You cannot fight stupid with stupid
That he pretends to be a king is bad enough, for the democrats to take his bait and address him as one is a fatal failure of their imagination. So what that you can fight fire with fire, you cannot fight stupid with stupid.
It is stupendously stupid for a party to spend millions of dollars to pretend to be an angry anti-king party at the same time as it is a happy pro-drag queen party. It is the apogee of ignorance to hate only one facet of a flawed scheme of governance; if kings are bad, then so must queens be.
That makes them APPEAR to be hypocrites, which should to be lethal to a politician or a political campaign. That nobody thinks they are is because people hear and see only what they want to hear and see, because it ratifies what they already want to be true.
So long as Democrats covet the votes of people whose jobs and pastimes are to pretend to be female monarchs, they must take care not to condemn the whole cohort of male monarchs, lest they be accused of systemic sexism! That no protest against systemic sexism will be heard by the people who create systemic responses to the fraud-in-chief, tends to verify my sad prognosis.
Condemn the man, not the title he wishes he inherited. If the DNC had given this a little thought, before green-lighting a corporate marketing campaign, they would have imagined how the opposition may be inspired to dream up a campaign that targets drag queens.
Does the DNC lack sufficient imagination to launch a sustained assault on Trumpian tyranny?
America has spent too much time in the magic kingdom, which was removed first from books onto the silver screen, then onto television screens, and now screens in the palms of our hands. The magic kingdom has blurred the distinction between reality, and what it can be made to look like with a little behind-the-screen programming.
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