It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the flesh failures.
It must be exhausting, on some level, seeing the all-powerful yet also degenerate conspiracy behind every rock and bush, always messing with you, always theoretically beatable, if you muster enough of that superior will, yet somehow never actually getting beaten. The root of it is that Muir just can't accept that maybe he's wrong, that maybe the things he likes aren't popular, that maybe he needs to examine himself and change. Because that would mean that would mean admitting that maybe he's the baddie.
Exactly. That self-examination is too painful and will never happen.
ReplyDeleteAlso: the projection! "Now neither side will accept the other saying they won." Um, actually I have no problem with accepting election results. I may not always like the results, but I will accept them. I know some local election workers and volunteers personally, and I know the kind of pride and commitment they invest in their work. It's strictly Muir's side that pitches a temper tantrum about rigged results every time it loses a race.
Everything is bad faith and false equivalency. I've seen quite a lot of right-wingers online braying that our reaction to Clinton's 2016 loss proves that we're "the same". They say that because we suspected Russia played a role in Trump's victory, we considered Trump "illegitimate", and therefore it's exactly the same thing.
ReplyDeleteI think many of them actually believe their own words.
Oh yes, I've been seeing so much of that too! Not at all the same.
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