Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Try Laughter

Call 'em ignorant, trailer trash, they revel in our hate for them. "To hate us is to take us seriously enough to hate. If you have to hate us to respect us, we'll take it!"

By definition to laugh at them is to not take them seriously, they are merely entertainment.

My first ex-father-in-law was a violent, racist ex-Philly cop. He watched "All in the Family" until he heard a critical mass that seemed through the concrete of his skull that it wasn't just a comedy, all the laugh lines were to humiliate Archie Bunker, his soul's twin. He didn't like that. The laughs were at his expense.

Trump supporters know just below their surface hatred of us that they are Lowlifes, that they always have been. They know Trump is a Lowlife. This is a Lowlifes club. Trump never genuinely laughs. Laughter raises his greatest subliminal dread, being laughed at. And now he and his Lowlifes have been laughed at at the United Nations. The world is laughing at you, Larry Nelson of Minnesota, Klan Man Dan of North Carolina. That cuts them to the soul.

At the next Trump rally, pipe canned laughter into the hall, a sound track like on "All in the family. It  will sear their souls and humiliate them.