The first thing you learn in college is to think critically. The idea is to challenge preconceived notions and prejudices learned in childhood. Many people fail their first year in college, because they can’t make the leap from dogma to reason. Faith becomes the primary driver in their lives, and when their ideology is challenged, they lash out. The earth is not round. It’s flat. If you don’t believe me, I’ll burn you at the stake. See Galileo. Heretic.
Critical thinking is the reason I love irony. I love the irony of a President who does nothing for the people who support him. I love the irony of a political machine that claims to support the military but does nothing for its troops. I love the irony of a group who claims to be so red-blooded American that they drape themselves in the flag of traitors. I love the irony of a group that claims life is sacred, but overwhelmingly supports the death penalty. Truth be known, these are the things that make me giggle.
Marie Antoinette had no idea what was to befall her before the French peasants stormed the Bastille. When I think of her I think of people like Ivanka Trump, and Education Secretary Betsy Devos. Now there’s an irony for you. Betsy Devos, the most uneducated person in history overseeing education reform. I’m pretty sure between the two of them, they have no idea why anyone in the world would be angry and disillusioned by the world today. This is the same group of people who thought that when government workers weren’t being paid, they could go to a bank and just get a loan.
Then there are things that go beyond irony. Things like when the working class believes it is going to be saved by the billionaire class. It reminds me of when Rebel forces got slaves to fight for them. It’s not ironic so much as criminal. The people that have abused them more than any other in history is all of a sudden going to be their saviors. They are told that the poor, the people with nothing, not even a pot to piss in, is taking all their wealth and opportunity, while the rich, the ones with ALL the wealth, and ALL the opportunity, are the ones they should lay their trust. Now THAT is something!
This brings me to the upcoming Presidential election. The Democrats think they need to bring decorum and decency into the White House. They’re right of course. However, the irony of ironies is that singing Kumbaya and asking us all to hold hands won’t win this election, and they want to win. Trump’s supporters want a blood bath. They want to see WWF. In fact, if the Democrats want to win, the first thing they should do at the very first debate with Trump, is instead of shaking his hand, walk right up to him, and punch him square in the teeth. It will delight the Left, and the Right at the same time.
Ironically, for two completely different reasons.
Rex