{"id":12543,"date":"2024-11-07T08:15:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therightbrainstudio.com\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2024-11-08T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:48:13","slug":"we-are-going-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therightbrainstudio.com\/blog\/we-are-going-back\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Going Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda? No. <\/strong>Only One Thing Matters in the End.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0065\"Having received the green light to implement the MAMA Project (\u201cMake America Macho Again), let\u2019s reflect on a thought from ad legend David Ogilvy: \u201cThe consumer is not an idiot. She\u2019s your wife.\u201d That was in the 1960\u2019s, just before feminism started to find its way to the mainstream. While the remark may have been innocuous in intent (but probably not), Ogilvy was still dead wrong if he was referring to the wisdom of all consumers.<\/p>\n

Democrats can point fingers all they like. Could they have done things differently? Found a better candidate? Of course. But that\u2019s not why they lost.<\/p>\n

Trump tells everyone who he is every chance he gets. His apologists and enablers twist themselves in knots to talk about how he really didn\u2019t mean it when he said Liz Cheney should face a firing squad, or that Haitians are eating dogs and cats. They fully understand that he\u2019s a pathological liar, convicted felon, seditionist, philandering husband, Christian nationalist (with no Christian values), misogynist, cheater, banner of books and wannabe suppressor of the media. Anyone that doesn\u2019t dote on him is \u201cthe enemy from within\u201d and should be jailed or executed. And I\u2019m leaving so much out! The right wing can claim otherwise, but his words speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

We should not fail to understand that all of the above are features, not bugs of Trump\u2019s appeal. He grabs women \u201cby the pussy! Sleeps with a porn star when his wife is home with his infant son! Talks about a pro golfer\u2019s penis size! Don\u2019t you love it? That\u2019s our kind of guy.<\/p>\n

But wait! Sure, he\u2019s a creep, but what about policy? Someone I know well recently related that despite Trump being \u201ca scumbag, his policies are better, and Kamala scares me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not that he could name a Trump policy, but if he could, I wonder which ones he\u2019d like. Trump wants to lower taxes on the rich while raising them on the poor and middle class. Just like Mexico was going to pay for the wall, China, not the American consumer, will pay his 10% to 100% or more tariffs. He\u2019ll enable dictators, screw our allies, and round up those millions of immigrants who are pouring out of jails and insane asylums to rape our (white) women and turn our kids trans.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s putting RFK Jr. in charge of national health policy. Can\u2019t wait to see the billboards advocating public health in the years to come, like \u201cLet\u2019s Bring Back Polio and Measles and Smallpox\u201d or \u201cEmbrace Ignorance\u201d or \u201cFuck Science.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot\"<\/p>\n

The icing on the cake? Deny health care and abortion rights to women, all while encouraging them to fulfill their \u201cnatural\u201d roles as sex objects, homemakers, caretakers, and baby-making machines.<\/p>\n

The facts don\u2019t matter. What we see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears is irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

There are several baked-in problems including the electoral college, right wing media spreading outright lies, social media algorithms, a population of \u201ceducated\u201d and uneducated people who refuse to read or think.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the Democrats\u2019 basic inability to communicate and persuade, despite that they start with a huge advantage. A solid majority of Americans favor abortion and most other Democratic policies. And they still can\u2019t win. Democrats couldn\u2019t sell winter coats in Alaska.<\/p>\n

Regardless, it all pales in comparison compared to the racism and misogyny of the American people. Why else would anyone vote for someone so despicable?<\/p>\n

Many pundits from across the political spectrum, like columnist Bret Stephens, chafe at this thought. In his most recent column, \u201cA Party of Prigs and Pontificators Suffer a Humiliating Defeat,<\/a>\u201d the conservative Never Trumper squarely places the blame on elite, \u201cwoke,\u201d liberals. There is a grain of truth in what he said, but it\u2019s still just a distraction.<\/p>\n

Kamala never had a chance. Many of us convinced ourselves that Americans were ready for a woman \u2013 and a black\/East Asian, cat-lady, childless woman married to a Jew at that \u2013 to be president. Not today my friend. American men voted in big numbers to prevent that. Not just white men, but Black and Hispanic men too.<\/p>\n

Seems like machismo trumps race.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Ogilvy was wrong on one count and right on another. Sometimes consumers are idiots. Unfortunately, this is no consumer gadget we just bought. There will be no sending Trump back to Amazon.<\/p>\n

But the great adman was prescient about the ongoing need for men \u2013 and many women \u2013 to put women in their place.<\/p>\n

A pundit I can\u2019t recall, commenting recently on Trump\u2019s infamous \u201cI\u2019ll protect women whether they want it or not,\u201d was spot on when she said:<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump has always excelled in giving women what they don\u2019t want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such a wonderful role model for our sons and daughters.<\/p>\n

As our nation heads toward Christian Nationalism, it\u2019s only fitting to end with a quote from Galatians 6:7:<\/p>\n

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”<\/p>\n

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