Alternatives

“Grifter” Gemini AI-generated image

 

I thought Bernie Sands was going to be The Man, the Destroyer of Worlds. He would upset the New World Order and bring Sanity back to the USA. This, I opined, was our Super Villian, the protagonist of the World Story who would save us all from ourselves.

That’s a lot of capitalization just to say Hillary was not that person and The Donald had told so many lies that I knew he was untrustworthy to follow through on his promises. So, when Trump won the election, I settled in for four more years of mundane Washington politics.

It took only two days after the inauguration for me to see the fallacy in my thinking.

The television was on for background noise, and I was only half listening when I heard the words, “alternative facts.” That got my attention. I am a collector of words and phrases that resonate with me; like “adorkable,” “cockwomble,” and “Backpfeifengesicht.” * I raced to my computer to record “alternative facts” as my new favorite.

On learning that the phrase came from the Trump White House, my transformation from Trump as cockwomble, and Backpfeifengesicht began to move to Trump, my savior, the man who would come as the Destroyer of World I had waited so long for.

Now, eight years later, the destruction has begun. I have become a MAGA, awaiting the final and long overdue collapse of the New World Order created by years of professional politicians thinking themselves entitled to office in the government of the world’s richest nation; entitled without regard to what the people wanted, only what their donors demanded, and wealthy parasites feeding off the poor.

Trump says he will change that, and I think I believe him, but there is that problem with the 35,000 lies and the alternative facts.

 

Backpfeifengesicht: German compound word for a 'face that should be slapped'

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