Why is W still popular with anybody?

A friend forwards a righteously angry article, published in her local newspaper, headed with her question "how do we preach outside the choir?"

My response to her important question:

I know, it's such a killer!

I had a thought the other day, after reading an email from my mom. I had asked if she'd had a chance to see The Daily Show this last week, because they were on fire. Supendous stuff, really. Angry as hell, and still funny as hell! Incredible.

Anyway, she wrote back that she'd seen the first few minutes of several shows, but that Dad can't watch it for very long -- she said it makes him unhappy and uncomfortable. She doesn't know if he feels sorry for W, or if it's just that he can't stand the feeling of so much direct invective being aimed at one person. I can totally believe that Dad feels that way. And then a while later, I found myself thinking...

...The rise of Hitler (I know, it's only my 2nd post on this blog, and I'm already mentioning Hitler) was due to many intersecting forces -- but I agree with the theory that one of those factors was the family-structure / family culture of Germany itself. Hitler's leadership style matched the formative family experiences of so many of his fellow countrymen -- the father as dictator, absolute authority. Wouldn't have been everyones' model, of course, but it definitely was for enough people.

You don't question Father (or your Husband). Not ever. Father brough you into this world...

So there I was, thinking about my Dad's emotional reaction to the righteous torching of this culture's President (the Asshole in Chief, as I call him to myself). And I know for myself how much my own father and my own family represent a particular flavor of dysfunctionality. There were (of course) particulars to our family dysfunction, but it also fit the Model that could be called Protecting the Big Lie. Suffice to say that it doesn't matter what the particular Big Lie is for any particular family, and that you must also be aware of the subheading -- at all Costs.

Protecting the Big Lie...at all Costs.

I submit to you that our current President is from this same model of family dysfunction. And I submit to you that the insight I had on Friday afternoon, walking to my car after work, is that enough families in our current culture are of this same flavor of dysfunction to elect and re-elect this man to the highest office.

Ask yourself -- what is the W administration best at? Ignoring the elephant in the room. Give 'em an elephant, watch them go. They are absolutely insanely masterful at it. Why? Because all of them are, underneath everything else that they are, and every other skill they possess, expertly trained in Protecting the Big Lie...

...at All Costs.