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ionelvMr. Ernu wrote an op-ed (“Banda și secta”) that oversimplifies the current US events. In his opinion, US has a recently resurfaced strong undercurrent of pent-up Southern desire for revenge for the Civil War loss and the main character drivers of current Trumpism are the bandit (i.e. cowboy gunslinger) and the sectarian (i.e. the evangelical Solo Scriptura fanatic).
While this imagery is quite Hollywoodian, seductive and almost half true, alas the full truth is a lot more complicated and simpler at the same time, but to use Mr. Ernu’s oversimplification ethos, I would counter his imagery with another oversimplified one:
American politics today is driven by a charismatic silver-spooned life-long grifting and aging playboy populist (fighting to the death to buy a “get out of jail free” card) as he is taking full advantage and grabbing by the p*ssy a zombie wave of anti-intelectual “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” who are blind to the filthy-rich bilking preachers, the predatory/oligopolistic/military/capitalist vampires and even a pair of snake oil salesman grubby tiny hands in their pockets and they actually believe that the deep state, the illegal immigrants, the woke, uppity women, non-Protestant non-whites, and THE gays have buggered them in their sleep, cuckolded them and/or magically picked their pockets (while they were prostrating to the silver-tongued orange-hued fool’s gold calf).
That this takeover has been financed and cheerlead by billionaires for at least 60 years is irrelevant as the pantomime between the billionaire Three Stooges is just warming up: Larry Putler just got simultaneously hickey'd and kicked in the shins by Bronze Curly while “Winnie the Pooh” Moe is smirking and getting ready to put the other two in their place with his signature slap.
While this imagery is quite Hollywoodian, seductive and almost half true, alas the full truth is a lot more complicated and simpler at the same time, but to use Mr. Ernu’s oversimplification ethos, I would counter his imagery with another oversimplified one:
American politics today is driven by a charismatic silver-spooned life-long grifting and aging playboy populist (fighting to the death to buy a “get out of jail free” card) as he is taking full advantage and grabbing by the p*ssy a zombie wave of anti-intelectual “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” who are blind to the filthy-rich bilking preachers, the predatory/oligopolistic/military/capitalist vampires and even a pair of snake oil salesman grubby tiny hands in their pockets and they actually believe that the deep state, the illegal immigrants, the woke, uppity women, non-Protestant non-whites, and THE gays have buggered them in their sleep, cuckolded them and/or magically picked their pockets (while they were prostrating to the silver-tongued orange-hued fool’s gold calf).
That this takeover has been financed and cheerlead by billionaires for at least 60 years is irrelevant as the pantomime between the billionaire Three Stooges is just warming up: Larry Putler just got simultaneously hickey'd and kicked in the shins by Bronze Curly while “Winnie the Pooh” Moe is smirking and getting ready to put the other two in their place with his signature slap.
