Monday, October 11, 2021

Nobody Knows

The Houston Texans have "a broad following." Despite losing all the most talented and beloved players in the last two seasons, and going 1-4 so far this season, more than "thousands" showed up in their stadium on Sunday.

To watch them snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Now, the owners of football teams are insulated from such matters by TV contracts which pay them no matter what, and no matter what, Texans games will be broadcast in Texas just as Saints games were broadcast in Louisiana even during the years they were the "Ain'ts".  Nobody shuttered the Superdome or hung up the Saints jerseys for storage.

Politics is different.  Trump controls Grassley because Trump is seen to control the mid-terms.  The truth is nobody knows, and politicians fear change more than a vampire fears garlic.  Or sunlight, for that matter.  All they know is their primary voters are Trump supporters and if you don't support Trump, you don't survive the primaries.

Presumably.

Nobody knows, as I say.  Trump is powerful because he's perceived as being powerful.  But if the mid-terms don't put Trump candidates in office (and odds are they will drive otherwise disinterested voters to the polls just to defeat them), what power does Trump have?  The power to destroy?  Yeah, he can't wield that power in government without controlling government again.  Is he on the verge of doing that?

Nobody knows.

I prefer to think he isn't, but I'm happy for people to say he is.  It motivates otherwise disinterested parties to VOTE! Meanwhile tout le Twitter is upset and scared and expecting the worst again because Joe Biden hasn’t ushered in the new age before Xmas 🎄.

If we’re going to lose democracy in this country, it won’t be because Trump took it, but because we gave it up. Is that going to happen because of a thousand people in Iowa ? If it does, we deserve it.

But I don’t think it will.

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