Alternatives
I thought Bernie Sanders 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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