POLTERGEIST II

It is very likely the flag-waving folks who stormed the nation's Capitol earlier today were not motivated by a desire to destroy democracy in America. They were there to preserve democracy, to rescue it from the lizard people and the Deep State Democratic pedophiles who had stolen it from Donald Trump.

Those good folks were not evil, simply misinformed. By Donald Trump.

As I have tried to point out in this blog, the human mind is a delicate hunk of defective aerofoam, bound into the skull with razor wire and duct tape.

Our minds are easily subverted, easily turned rancid by the quiet words of loud, ambitious people.

We humans can't help it. We're doing the best we can. Like the woman on a jury once said, the defendant was too drunk to be held responsible for driving his car into a construction zone and killing his passenger.

Humans are perennially "drunk" with mind-altering stupidity and delusion.

We are a stupid and mean pack of badly evolved animals buoyed up by delusions of knowledge and the glory of unearned righteousness.

Humans always do the right thing. Unfortunately, we are by nature incapable of finding out we're full of crap, that what we're doing is often exactly the wrong thing.

There's no fix for this.

During the height of the action today, the president released a video that reminded his followers he had won the election by a landslide (and everybody in the country knew it), and that his re-election had been stolen by folks bent on the destruction of America. Then he told them to go home.

Watching such incendiary rhetoric, I always have to ask myself: Is this man sincere? Does he really believe all this nonsense? He he genuinely consumed by nut-ball conspiracy theories? Is he being held hostage by Fox News?

Or is he just lying for political and financial gain?

If he's sincere, the man is stupid or crazy or both. He'd have to be.

On the other hand, if it's all just a pack of lies, that would help us uncover what MAGA really means: Make America Gape Again.

Sure, Trump loves America. But it's a tough love. And as we all know, the toughest love is anal.

It appears Trump wants to drive trucks through America's backdoor.

How can we hope to keep stuff like this from happening in the future?

Next time on WHAT'S WRONG WITH US, I promise.