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Just received this in my inbox from Seth Godin. On winning. I found the part on demagoguery most compelling:
A demagogue cares so much about winning that he’d rather wreck the system itself than lose. It’s okay, he believes, to root for the failure of the republic or to destroy civility or democracy if it leads to something that could be called a win.
Seth’s post is about winning but it just reminds me how the far right feels like it is just fine to completely trash our peacetime-democratically-elected president and government just to get what they want — to win.
What is winning? Is there a vision? Surely not just returning our country to 1776?
To an orthodoxy that runs on two documents: the Bible and the Constitution, literally read and never interpreted?
Even though our Founding Fathers were enlightenment Masons who were more afraid of an ignorant theocratical America than whatever the right is afraid of.
They’re really not afraid of any of this stuff. They’re more interested at winning. They’re more interested in the win and are more than happy to trash everything, lie through their teeth, and get caught again and again in hypocrisy — conflicting realities — to leverage fear — all FTW!
