“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled
people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and
intrusively invaded.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 
Just to be grossly generalistic, you can put half of the Trump haters into what I call the basket of detestables, right? Misandrists, anti-semites, welfare mothers, baby killers, cop killers, pedophiles, god haters, Russophobic, androphobic, Christophobic… you name it. They are beyond redemption and haters of America.

I wanted to skip the Dostoyevsky quote and go right into my mockery of Hillary’s slander, but recognizing the reality that sarcasm is often lost in print, I felt the need to preface those comments with an identifier. Truly, we are surrounded now with such outrageous nonsense that over the top sarcasm goes greatly unrecognized, with people just assuming that someone is saying something stupid again. It’s stupid to lump half of your ideological adversaries in with the few and worst representatives of their political preference. It’s stupid to then blame your loss on the bigoted voters who elected a black president, twice; on an FBI director who calls you out for your stupidity, on hackers and WikiLeaks for exposing the corruption of your campaign, or on “fake news” when it was the real and barely reported news that sunk your ship. It’s stupid to continue as a party on the road that has brought you only failure, but in the words of Forrest Gump’s mama, “Stupid is as stupid does.”

And so, in the face of devastating defeats over her tenure, Democrats choose to stick with Nancy Pelosi for Minority leader in the House; President Obama continues to exhibit voluntary blindness mistaking personal popularity for support for his misguided policies, blaming Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for the caricature he himself has drawn. The legacy media continues in its death throes to consume and regurgitate the poisonous bias that has brought them to the point of irrelevance. Elitist celebrities continue to act as though their political opinions should be worshipped, Trump haters refuse to recognize how unbecoming hatred is. After clamoring for pointless recounts, attempting to intimidate Trump electors (though transgendered gun control advocates are unsurprisingly not all that intimidating), and pointing to a popular vote statistic that has never been the basis for election; the haters have now turned their vitriol, as did their Queen, to the supporters of the President elect. They defend the boorish behavior of the couple who conspired to crudely harass Trump’s daughter on a plane in front of her children and their child because she supported her father’s presidency. They bully a blind tenor from singing at Trumps inauguration. They make crude jokes about the Rockettes keeping Trump occupied so he won’t molest the fifteen year old singing the inaugural national anthem. They use hateful invective, crude language, and cheap insults to impugn not only Trump, but those who voted for him as well. They use a vote for Trump as a basis for witholding employment, for discrimination in service, for boycotts, and yes for directed violence. In a Wal-mart parking lot in Ithaca NY a UPS driver was shot to death by a deranged gunman who thought the driver was Donald Trump. I’m not saying he represents all Trump haters, but hatred is contagious, and hyperbolic hysteria can trigger the psychologically fragile; bathing the nation in rage may start fires that will burn the innocent. Dissent is one of the checks and balances that has made our nation great, but hatred is stupid.

Having established to their own satisfaction the complete inadequacy of Trump for the office of President, Democrats were left with the dilemma of explaining how they were defeated by someone completely inadequate. After resorting to their default “America is stupid” response, they’ve since moved on to more sophisticated excuses. In language reminiscent of Hillary’s “vast right wing conspiracy” comments, Democrats have moved through a series of conspiracy theories to apparently finally settle on blaming her defeat on Russian hacking. Of course, if conservatives were progressives, we would warn the Democrats against labeling the hacking as “Russian”. After all, Russians are a good people, contributing to the rich tapestry of our own nation and the world in general. This Russophobic language could easily lead to unjustified discrimination against Russians in general. You have more chance of getting hit by a car than being hacked by a Russian, so by all means open that suspicious e-mail, accept that FaceBook friend request from the hot Russian girl; we can’t punish all Russians for a little non-indigenous computer interference… remember what we did to the Japanese in WWII; never again! The President’s own Russophobia is reckless,flying in the face of long established standards of diplomacy and risking conflict with a nuclear power to make a political justification of a lost election. Poking your finger in Vladimir’s eye would be like, well, taking a phone call from the President of Taiwan… yeah, more sarcasm.

IMHO: What appears to be stupidity and tone deafness in the democratic response to the disastrous election is actually an attempt to salvage their progressive dreams from the tides of public opinion. Where it would make sense to modify their extreme agenda to more closely align with the public at large, that is not who they are, and not who they wish to be. So instead of facing reality, they seek to impose their will, solidify their base, eliminate the electoral college, and legislatively create voters more easily manipulated. They double down on their base comments, double down on their atrocious behavior, double down on their elitist desire for control. They continue down the path wherein they were rejected, following in lockstep Paul Krugman, Lena Dunham, Michael Moore… the pied pipers who have led them to this place. President Obama finishes his presidency as he began it, with a ridiculous energy policy; standing down for Israel, proving he never “had their back”; and while Rome burns, he is on the golf course yet again. They seem unable to even pretend to be something other than what the nation rejected. Stuck on stupid.