[FRIAM] Debate and Election

[Marcus Daniels]

Right-wing authoritarianism seems to be about 25-30% of the population in the 
United States.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/28/who-likes-authoritarianism-and-how-do-they-want-to-change-their-government/



From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of steve smith
Sent: Monday, July 1, 2024 11:59 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] Debate and Election



While I'm on a roll (see [un]official disambiguation thread):

I gurgitated:

Phellow Phriamers -

Here are my anti-Trump ideations grounded in the SCrOTUS decision of the day:

Warning, vivid imagery which
may induce limbic chaos!

  _____

President Joe Biden writes the following (official act) executive orders and 
proclamations:

<more Gurge, less Limbic Chaos>

Regarding the debate and election:

Watching the debate (most of my friends chose to "know better" and waited for 
select aftergame reports) I was deeply disheartened by both performances.

That said, I realized (soon after?) that they were in fact "performances", as 
virtually all politicking is (and virtually all that DJT ever does?)...

While I have ideated exhaustively (exhausted myself and anyone who would 
listen) on alternative scenarios where Biden (gracefully) steps aside, 
including nominating a consensus candidate (implied team) of his choice (e.g. 
Newsom/Harris, Booker/Whitmer, Jeffries/Warren, ??? ad nauseum) with 
full-throated endorsements by everyone of significance in the left (e.g. 
Pelosi, Obamas, Late Night Comicsa few senior Newshosts, ???).  And the Never 
Trumpers from the Right (Cheney-Kinsinger, Chris Christie?, Judge Ludig, the 
Lincoln Project, et alii), I had another simple thought.

What if this event really reduces the race to what it really is:  Never 
Trumping, Bald Authoritarianism vs flawed Democracy in the Democratic Party's 
style?

Someone made the point that nobody who was going to vote for Biden will now 
vote for Trump, maybe a few will cynically risk letting Trump default in,  but 
most of the "own the libs" Trumpsters just got the satisfaction they crave 
(humiliating libs) and might forget to vote (incels in their parent's basement 
watching porn).   There were only order 9M registered voters who failed to 
vote in 2020,  a smallish (out of 168M? registered voters) percentage, but 
enough to swing the election wide.   Some of those will always fail.   I 
believe the number of *eligible* voters in 2020 was 1.5x the number 
registered,  or about 80M unregistered voters.

The focus could/should be "get out the vote", trusting that Trump's frenzied 
grievance politics has already wrung his turnip-truck-load of turnips 
near-dry?

I also wonder at why nobody has said (enough?) much to "mainstream" or 
"oldSkool" conservatives/Republicans about their role as a "Loyal Opposition"? 
Don't they miss that role themselves and miss having one in traditional Dems? 
The gloves have been off (on one side) for some time, do they (all) really 
want to be left standing after a brutal beatdown consisting of 
sand-in-the-face, brass knuckle rabbit and kidney punches?   I'm sure many are 
eager for that, despite the "careful what you ask for" rule, but surely enough 
(like the afore-mentioned never-trumpers).

Don't at least some want to get back to the "good old days" of a 
gentle(wo)man's tug-of-war across a mud-pit (sans vipers)?

The new(ly re-realized) reality might bring some focus to those who already 
(or nearly) recognize the dire threat of Authoritarianism (this time in a Red 
Hat) in general?

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