Cute headline, but it's not funny when, according to a
recent NBC/Wall St. Journal poll, only 29% of Americans say they believe that
the President has been cleared of wrongdoing in the 'Russiagate' collusion scandal.
Despite an exhaustive two-year plus study that cost 25 million dollars and 40
investigators' time, most Democrats have pulled the covers over their heads and
are clicking their ruby slippers in bed while muttering to themselves
"there's no place like home, there's no place like home" (back to the
safety of their own self-made reality).
Seems like most Democrat Congressional Representatives are
following the yellow brick road path laid out by the troika of House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell (all Californians I might
add). This goes for House Judiciary Committee Chairman and resident nabob of negativism,
Rep. Jerry Nadler, who has pinned a target on the President and offered a
bounty to anyone who can produce a smoking gun of wrongdoing that will give him
the blond locks of Donald Trump on a silver subpoena.
Living in the state of 'D'enial
is something the Democrats have perfected. We saw it happen for eight years
under George W. Bush and we're experiencing it again with Donald Trump. It's
more than a mantra and much more than a childish tantrum. It's destructive
behavior...for all of us. Putting one's head in the sand is the equivalent of pretending
it's not your bid in poker instead of playing the hand you've been dealt. People
with real psychological problems gleefully enter the world of make-believe and
pretend that they're epic heroes from the past (like FDR, JFK or Napoleon
Bonaparte). To enter that world, they must sever all connections to reality,
say goodbye to their surroundings and disappointments and get their ticket
punched in the parallel universe of group-think where all the other 'D'eniars are waiting for them. If you
think this is no threat to the rest of us, you're wrong. Anytime anyone chooses
to live in denial they diminish our collective chances of coming together (now
there's laugh for you, as if Americans are ever going to come together again
save for a national catastrophe).
No, the truth is too hard to admit, especially for the
Democrats who still insist that Hillary was robbed. They have chosen disbelief
over belief, their facts over THE facts and have adopted selective
amnesia when it comes to owning up to their responsibility as citizens to make
the machine of government work better. They've refined the art of name-calling and
character assassination and justify their actions by citing their unassailable goal
of making the rest of us buy into their concept of America...using any means necessary
to achieve it.
In their game, the refs have been fired and banned from the
stadium. The rulebook has been burned as half-time entertainment. Each team's
fans must now sit on opposite sides of the field. No one is allowed to mingle, lest
some of the dreaded 'Make America Great Again-ness' rubs off on them. It's
fourth down and ten and the 'Ds' are busy moving the down marker chain back a
few yards, claiming that it's their right to do so since no one trusts anyone
anymore anyway. American politics has indeed become a death match in which it's
better to destroy than to build, to diminish rather than increase and to reject
uncomfortable disagreement by assuming an alternate reality.
To the casual observer, we Americans must appear to be a
schizophrenic lot, incapable of dealing with our problems as if we are motivated
by two entirely different competitive ethos. One team is coached by Charles
Darwin and the other by Billy Graham. You can guess which is which. That leaves
conservatives in a quandary: "Should we let the Dems live in their heads
and hope they don't see the folly of their ways while we re-build our defenses,
or should we help them out of their cells into the sunlight?" Our
principles of neighborliness and charity for all should answer that question
for us, but if we do help them will that not only prove that it is us
that are living in denial - denial of the Democrats' basic instincts to win
at any price? I hate questions of morality, don't you?
Stephan Helgesen is a
former career U.S. diplomat who lived and worked in thirty different countries,
specializing in export promotion. He is now a political analyst and strategist
and author of nine books and over 1,000 articles on politics, the economy and
social trends. He can be reached at: stephan@stephanhelgesen.com
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