Day 922 – The Right’s Inferiority Complex

Saturday, July 29, 2023

There was a guy I worked with at Western Electric’s Baltimore factory. He was a well respected supervisor. We both passed the test to become Account Executives for AT&T Long Lines and went to training in Cincinnati Ohio. He was a nice guy friendly, smiling, but he had a chip on his shoulder. He used phrases like “What? He thinks his poop don’t stink?” and “We put our pants on the same way.”

I don’t think he had a college degree. I’ve found many folks who don’t seem to have this sort of attitude. The “I’m just as good as them” fixation. I have to ask myself, “If I you are (just as good as them) why do you have to keep bringing it up?” It seems the only person who doesn’t believe that they are just as good is the individual themselves. This is a long way of saying that it’s more about the person than whomever they are comparing themselves to. My friend quit the program and went back to being a supervisor.

This kind of behavior and speech seems to be a fixture on the right, any right wing party, here or abroad. It is  centered around the idea of a strong man. Someone who will come to power, take control and fix things. Make them right. Part of the strongman’s speech is always to blame “the other.” Someone else is to blame for their and your ills. It could be negroes, the Irish, immigrants, Jews, queers, protestants, Catholics, Muslims – doesn’t matter. Someone else is to blame for the current plight.

The right seems fixated on the left. They want to show the liberal elite, the woke mob, the anti-fascists, the people in the ivory towers. Why the fixation? Because if they didn’t have someone to blame they’d have to look at themselves. Or as Pogo said, “We have seen the enemy and them is us.” Whoa. No way! You’d have to swallow something (your pride?, your self righteousness? ) and face the situation. Better to avoid, and kick the can down the road.

I’ve been hearing this whining and blaming my whole life. It really hasn’t changed. They play a game of three card monte, except it’s more than three cards. It’s been compared to whack a mole. There’s the “What about?” phase. (“What about Hunter’s laptop?”, “What about Hillary’s server?”) Then there’s the blame and derision phase. (“Disgraceful,” “Lock her up!”) then there’s silence and a new topic. That is when confronted with the facts over and over again (maybe). What happens? Time to move on to a new (old) topic. 

There’s:

the left, Antifa, the Jews,

some proof of wrong doing (often pointed out to be false), the whistleblower (who was in fact a Chinese spy), The Dem’s server in Ukraine (non-existent), the child porn sex ring being run out of the basement of a pizza store in Washington DC (kind of hard to have a basement when your store is built on a concrete slab), the Coast Guard station on Long Island where a woman showed up with a high powered rifle to kill someone for some reason that Glenn Beck was yakking about, the crimes of the immigrants (they commit crime at half the rate of the citizen population), …

It’s never ending. 

The sad thing is when the shoe is on the other foot.

Never has it been more on display the last few days as more charges against Donald Trump have serviced. Quotes by him, outraged at the made up behavior of Hillary Clinton and what he would do to her; now he is faced with committing the same crimes.

And then there’s the plethora of Republican politicians – same schtick: outrage at the suggested behavior of the Dems, now they are faced with one of their own actually being accused in criminal indictment of doing what they were so outraged about before. The hypocrisy and cowardliness of thee people is plain for all to see.

But … But …

Shutup and eat your Cheerios.