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Alternate Reality

The mental vacuum of the MAGAsphere is sucking the life out of the rest of us

How much of the orange cult’s “Alternate Reality” do we have to live with, and for how long? Kellyanne Conway nailed it when she called a ridiculous Trump lie an “alternate fact.” It was obvious bullshit, yet she acted like we were supposed to believe her. Didn’t work then, and it isn’t working now on anyone with a working brain.

The cult’s insane universe is all alternate facts, top to bottom, so I just call it “alternate reality.” That is a lot less offensive to the believers than “crackhead hallucinations,” which I consider a better and more accurate term. The problem is that they are destroying all that is good and worthwhile out here in reality. The bulldozer they are using on society is not a fantasy, nor is the damage it is doing. The fact that they are destroying the basis of their own fantasy is too much reality for them, of course. So is the wreckage they are making of their children’s and grandchildren’s world. That is, of course, the reality they are hiding from in the first place — anyone with a little knowledge of science and/or history can’t miss that.

What makes it worse is the ongoing global warming and the destruction it is wreaking. Once again, the lies say it isn’t happening, of course, but at least the U.S. is pretty much alone in acting that way. With France and Belgium taking such a hard hit from it, with hundreds dead, the EU can’t ignore the reality. I have to wonder whether the MAGAts’ alternate reality field can ignore the damage from the oncoming El Niño. I suppose that if only the western two-thirds of the country gets hit, the MAGAsphere around D. C. will say “I’m fine,” at least until food scarcity and high prices slap them in the face hard.

Historically, these sorts of revolts don’t normally happen until enough people have empty enough stomachs. The French Revolution happened because people got hungry and the ruling class did nothing. This is the first revolt I know of that was purely a con job—sure, the people revolting were unhappy, but the orange cult gave them a completely false line of shit to foster their revolt. Sure, the government got out of touch and didn’t help them—nothing new or abnormal there. You can’t say the orange government is even vaguely in touch with the needs of people—they are much worse than their predecessors and have made reality FAR worse.

The fact is that the MAGAt class is composed of people who overwhelmingly refused to try to keep up with the needs of society, and therefore became useless to the productive portion. The MAGAts blame immigrants like the Nazis blamed the Jews—using the same illogic and mental contortions, even—but the reality is that they, the MAGAts, need to look at themselves. This is something they obviously cannot do, or they wouldn’t have been conned in the first place. Instead of empty stomachs, the problem here is self-inflicted empty heads.

The orange cult is only a symptom of society’s ills. While the former Republicans (now Nazis) helped cause the situation by wrecking education and any hint of a social safety net while pumping an unending stream of money to the rich and powerful, the idiots who became MAGAts went along with the scam all along because it allowed them to claim it was someone else’s fault. All of the cults that catered to the less educated classes went along as well, because it was the only chance they had of not becoming completely obsolete and powerless. Cults live on ignorance and fear, just like the orange Nazis, so they became fellow travelers back before Reagan, and in many ways are the real cause of a lot of the current wreckage. They are a “yuge” part of the disease, to quote a favorite orange-ism.

While the scientific and science fiction concept of alternate universes is still just that, a concept and a mental exercise with no reality to back it up, we have a chunk of society that is acting as if they live in a different reality, where science and truth are foreign concepts, and the magic of lies sustains them. The mess they are leaving will take generations to clean up. I just hope that the world will learn from our mistakes—reality isn’t going away regardless of the lies told.