METAPHYSICAL EFFRONTERY

FROM THE PSYCHOSEMIOTIC CYLINDER

The Craig-'o-Matic
Republican Watermelon Buster

(or: THE METAPHYSICAL EFFRONTARY .... )


Assuming they can dictate reality. "I'll tell you what's what" ("I am not gay and never have been"; compare Nixon, "I am not a crook.")
In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary you are looking at as they speak.

It's a replay of traumatic situation that many lived through in abusive childhoods. "Are you going to believe me or what you think you see?"

It is axiomatic that if they would do this once,. they would do it again, and again; and also, from the other side of the coin, it will provoke "once bitten twice shy" reaction. If Craig-ites will front such blatant contradiction here, they would do so anywhere. Only a fool would trust them for anything whatever.

As in Iraq. After all, Senator Craig stood in solidarity with pro-war Republicans straight down the party line. Until now we see the Bush-Petreus-Pace-Rice-Gates team of warriors -- a skeleton crew, indeed -- turning up unexpecctedly in Anbar Province. While the Brits hi-tail it out of Basra. (coincidence)

"Are you going to believe us, or let the Democrats tell you what's happening?"

What America is presented with in both cases is the sheer effrontery of their being. As if all we see on a daily basis, reported by Peter Ware on CNN, for instance; ... all we have followed for years as a documented narrative ... and know to been incontrovertible fact,... could be simply silenced by denial. Wherever 'evidence' contradicts the official line, about what really happened on 9/11/07, for instance, is false by definition. The 'conspiracy theory' is not based on evidence. They will assert that straight out. Conspiracy theorists have a mental problem.

The sheer effrontery of their being.

America's social disease. The germs are carried by 'others": aliencs, Muslims, jihadists, communists, Russia, China, al Queda, Hezbolla, Hamas, in terrorist cells scattered over the face of earth. The post 9/11 reality requires constant, perpetual, vigilance to Her safe.

Politics: The Craig Republican Party will include Democrats, liberals, socialists, leftists as 'soft on the enemy', 'in bed with bin Laden', 'appeasers of Hitler', etc.. Also, the Democrat are the party of women and minorities (specifically, black, if one counts Obama)

A fallout of the Craig-o-matic is a new litmus paper test for Republican candidates: "Are you, or have you ever been....?" -- requiring gays to come out or get out.

But that is like an old idea of mine regarding politician's use of "God" on the public stage. It probably couldn't be proscribed entirely, but whoever uses it could be required to state their identity. When Joe Lieberman blessed Al Gore as God's man, for instance, he would have been required to say, "as an Orthodox Jew". Which he was, and was understood to be, unspoken out of courtesy. Thus smuggling religious affect into sub-conscious levels of association, which can be 'looped in' in later recall-segments. It was an audacious, illegitimate act, pronouncing an identity of his use of the Word- Sign "God" and Americas. But without a forensics of sign-use, there was no way to confront it.