Preface: Conservatives....those very few who remain anyway....beware of the latest establishment scheme coming your way. Some conservative radio talk show hosts are turning Senator Lindsey Graham into a conservative hero. Bob Woodward's book Fear lays out pretty clear how Senator Graham played on Donald Trump's constant need for his ego to be stroked.....but of course we would never read Bob Woodward's book would we? Graham's defense of Brett Kavanaugh has been strong but he is now the leader of the Republican establishment.... of which just about all of us are now part of....and isn't going to change.
Let's go back a little over ten years to Denver, Colorado. The Democrat Party moved Barack Obama's nominating acceptance speech from the Pepsi Center where the convention was being held to the then named Invesco Field so that upwards of 80,000 could attend. A few days before the convention Reuters reported..."Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple." It not only resembled a Greek temple....it was strikingly similar to the Pergamon Altar which stood on the acropolis of the ancient city of Pergamon in Asia Minor....now Turkey....and is today reassembled and reconstructed in Berlin. Both stages...or altars....can easily be Googled.
That was our concern then....a personality cult christened from a reasonable facsimile of a Greek altar. Our concern today should emanate from the traveling President Trump rallies. Right now they are occurring often as the November congressional elections are a little over a month away. Please consider taking the time to live stream one of these rallies. Don't miss even a minute because you need to see the quiet broken by music and then President Trump entering to wild cheers. He will spend a few minutes accepting the near adoration. He'll stop a few times on the way to the microphone.....turning in all directions while waving in acknowledgment of the sea of hands....red MAGA caps....carefully distributed hand-held signs (some of them are ridiculous in retrospect....drain the swamp for example)....and the iPhones extended out towards him.
If you concentrate on the particular issue that President Trump is speaking on then you may....actually you probably will miss the problem. On the other hand if you focus on the method of oration....and look behind the President to the sea of faces....(half of which may be looking to their smartphone camera screen to prove they were actually in the presence of Donald Trump)....and watch the rally from the very beginning to the end....taking in the music....(it never changes)....and chants....the continuous mockery of anyone who criticizes him....and at least consider what we should already know of psychological manipulation and grandiosity....then you may see that there is indeed a serious problem here that needs addressed.
Barack Obama represented a socialist and even a Marxist transformation of America. Donald Trump outwardly represents the return to a constitutional republic. After a decade of fighting the lies and machinations of President Obama it is difficult for conservatives to even consider the possibility of lies and machinations of President Trump....but it has to be done. This new Democrat Party exalted and near-worshiped a man....the new Trump Republican Party is doing the same thing. Calling President Trump to account on his demand for constant approval along with his inordinate vengeful mockery of anyone who refuses to do so....and his undetected demagoguery....does not mean that we are no longer defending a conservative constitutional America....it means that we being vigilant on how it is so easy to depart from words written on paper and in documents....and principles....and truth....to words from an image that do not necessarily rely on principle or truth....but crass political gain.
Let's go back a little over ten years to Denver, Colorado. The Democrat Party moved Barack Obama's nominating acceptance speech from the Pepsi Center where the convention was being held to the then named Invesco Field so that upwards of 80,000 could attend. A few days before the convention Reuters reported..."Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple." It not only resembled a Greek temple....it was strikingly similar to the Pergamon Altar which stood on the acropolis of the ancient city of Pergamon in Asia Minor....now Turkey....and is today reassembled and reconstructed in Berlin. Both stages...or altars....can easily be Googled.
That was our concern then....a personality cult christened from a reasonable facsimile of a Greek altar. Our concern today should emanate from the traveling President Trump rallies. Right now they are occurring often as the November congressional elections are a little over a month away. Please consider taking the time to live stream one of these rallies. Don't miss even a minute because you need to see the quiet broken by music and then President Trump entering to wild cheers. He will spend a few minutes accepting the near adoration. He'll stop a few times on the way to the microphone.....turning in all directions while waving in acknowledgment of the sea of hands....red MAGA caps....carefully distributed hand-held signs (some of them are ridiculous in retrospect....drain the swamp for example)....and the iPhones extended out towards him.
If you concentrate on the particular issue that President Trump is speaking on then you may....actually you probably will miss the problem. On the other hand if you focus on the method of oration....and look behind the President to the sea of faces....(half of which may be looking to their smartphone camera screen to prove they were actually in the presence of Donald Trump)....and watch the rally from the very beginning to the end....taking in the music....(it never changes)....and chants....the continuous mockery of anyone who criticizes him....and at least consider what we should already know of psychological manipulation and grandiosity....then you may see that there is indeed a serious problem here that needs addressed.
Barack Obama represented a socialist and even a Marxist transformation of America. Donald Trump outwardly represents the return to a constitutional republic. After a decade of fighting the lies and machinations of President Obama it is difficult for conservatives to even consider the possibility of lies and machinations of President Trump....but it has to be done. This new Democrat Party exalted and near-worshiped a man....the new Trump Republican Party is doing the same thing. Calling President Trump to account on his demand for constant approval along with his inordinate vengeful mockery of anyone who refuses to do so....and his undetected demagoguery....does not mean that we are no longer defending a conservative constitutional America....it means that we being vigilant on how it is so easy to depart from words written on paper and in documents....and principles....and truth....to words from an image that do not necessarily rely on principle or truth....but crass political gain.
