For the last year, I've done "Tales from The Asylum" stories as a way to highlight how truly irrational U.S. leadership decisions have been and how unhinged large chunks of the Republican electorate have become. If you like, check out:
August 3 -- Last Week in The Asylum
August 10 -- Tales from The Asylum
August 19 -- Tales from The Asylum
August 29 -- Tales from The Asylum
October 24 -- Tales from The Asylum
The August 19 column received some good reviews.
Now, after a Trump-fueled mob attacked the Capitol yesterday, people suddenly realize that irrationality runs rampant in Trumpworld. After four years of inoculation from reality, snowballing these last 12 months with pandemic lie after pandemic lie, how could the cult of Trump have been conditioned for anything but irrationality?
Suddenly GOP asses were on the line yesterday and guns were drawn and people died, and the GOP is shocked, shocked they say, that it came to this. LOL. Sounds like a bunch of lawyers. Voluntary blindness when convenient; backbones like Gumby.
So Trump is nuts, and the GOP couldn't figure it out until yesterday. If that's true, Republicans are the dumbest, most imperceptive political party on the planet.
I had my popcorn ready yesterday, as I anticipated the events. Two things surprised me. First, I was shocked at the non-response of law enforcement and how easily rioters flooded the Capitol. Second, I was surprised that Congress reconvened in the same location last night. Because many of the rioters were wearing large backpacks, I thought sweeping the entire Capitol for bombs would take until morning. Evidently, bomb sweeping tech is well beyond my expectations.
The unfortunate aspect of all this -- the Capitol goes sane in two weeks and rampant insanity, for the most part, will be outside the walls of Congress or the White House. It will be in the streets and homes of American towns and cities. And it will be more dangerous than what we saw January 6.
Bob Dietz
January 7, 2021
