Simply Said

 "You do realize we annoyed the average American into fascism"

Marc Maron from his latest special, Panicked.

That is fucking hilarious and it's true. 

Annoyed them, poked and prodded them, tried to dictate what they could say and couldn't say, could do and couldn't do - tell them how to live. Not a good approach for encouraging peaceful co-existence.

Marc's audience is ultra liberal. I love the man but I'm no longer ultra liberal - I am a thinking liberal or a liberal realist. 

I love him because he is so open and vulnerable, he is intelligent, he overcame alcoholism and drug addiction, and he is a whiner - like me. The difference is, I whine and it comes across as weakness. He whines but he makes it funny. Because he has deep points of reference, tons of life experience, and is well read.

"We annoyed the average American into fascism." It's true. Liberals went way too far pushing their approach to life down everybody else's throat. 

Many years ago I began to see the stupidity of how some of what liberals think is, and I mocked it. Shook my head and said "That ain't me." But I did not realize the deep seated hatred the right had for these points of view.

The backlash blows me away because it is so vicious, violent, juvenile, and outright fucking stupid. Which greased the skids for a dicktator to move right on into the white house, with the ultimate goal of painting the place gold - inside and out.

Fucking amazing.

The lesson? Don't annoy everyone. Try to get along. Reason with them if they are open-minded, be open-minded yourself, avoid them if they are small-minded, then laugh behind their back.