Until we viewed the recent televised Republican Nomination, we realized that we had been in error concerning our having reached the limit of amazement, responsive to the paranoid ideations of the MAGA constituents such as surveillance microcomputers in vaccine, rockets sent from space to earth by Israel, voting ballots with bamboo interferences, liberals running pizza parlors which serve as child pornographers, Jewish bankers, with the assistance of George Soros, conspiring to control the planet, homosexuality being teachable, 9/11 being a false flag operation, the Nation becoming socialist, a conspiracy of “coastal elites” controlling national policy, the existence of a controlling “Deep State Government, the “Replacement Theory,” the “birther” theory regarding Barack Obama, the Mexican Government sending their unwanted criminals to the United States, and too many other paranoid ideations to pragmatically list.
We, for some time, had been puzzled and deeply concerned at the many indications that the nuanced capability of the Homo sapiens mind can facilely adhere to such bizarre conspiracy ideations. Our thematic experience was experienced during our observation of the Republican Nominating Convention (if one can still identify the party by such name) inducing our conclusion that the present threat to humankind, imposed by a ubiquitous irrational perception, presently now elevated to the equivalent level of schizophrenic fantasy, is a true, frightening and empirical danger.
The specific occasion of our shock and unprecedented amazement was that of the expressed belief that the assassination attempt by a mentally disturbed sniper had failed, merely injuring Trump’s outer ear, was due to a reductive human attribution for cause and effect which has satisfied Man’s compelling need for an acceptable explanation for temporally unexplainable occurrences. divine intervention.
“Devine intervention,” was the explanation for the “parting of the Red Sea” in Genesis, the retributive “golem” of ancient Prague, the imperative destiny for early America to acquire continental real estate, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast and the Met’s 1969 championship of the Major League World Series. We were enlightened to be advised that such grace, creditably attributable to divine intervention was judicially granted to Donald J. Trump (demagogic snake oil salesman, felon, insurrectionist, bigot, adulterer, patron of call girl services, convict, and “wanna-be” dictator). We are irresistibly caused to wonder why a benevolent Deity did not dispense such grace to other deserving recipients such as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and the sad multitude of innocent schoolchildren horrifically and tragically murdered by gun crazies over past years.
It may also, ironically and meaningfully be observed, that the automatic military-style weapons used in the attempt at the assassination of Trump, as well as in the numerous horrific and tragic successes of incidents of the murder of innocent child victims, have continued to be irresponsibly available to madmen, with the notably shameful blessing and political self-serving assistance of “the blessed” Donald Trump.
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