Why "Weirdos" Stings

 

At the corner of Route 27 and Lafayette Road today, a gaggle of Trump supporters, waving flags and signs, stood grinning and gesticulating at passing motorists, and cars trapped waiting for the very complicated traffic lights.

Looking at them, Mad Dog wished he had his sign with him:

But then Mad Dog thought: They are just so pathetic. Why engage with them?

While it is true that most of those arrested at the Capitol on January 6th were not "losers," unemployed men living in their parents' basements, but rather owners of small companies, HVAC men, doctors, lawyers,

Is that a guillotine prize he's holding?

 businessmen, Rotary Club types, a significant part of the 46% of the country who loves Trump are marginalized, alienated types, bottom dwelling losers, who love the Trump line that the system is rigged and the liberals are trying to take away your status and give it to the undeserving dark skinned immigrants who the Democrats hope to turn into Democratic voters. These bottom dwellers knew they are at the bottom of the heap, but they always had that firm knowledge there was someone below them: the Negroes, or, more recently, the wetback, South of the Border refugee. "You Will Not Replace Us," was straight from the KKK--we have an established order and no matter how stupid I may be personally, if you are a Negro or the equivalent, you are below me.

Proud to be Weird

Joining the Trump club, everyone, no matter how rejected they may have been in school, at the bar, or in the softball league, has a place and can feel proud.

Honey Boo Boo rises from the ashes

Being called a Weirdo opens that wound, because now it's no longer cool to be weird.

How was prison, Weirdo?

Mad Dog's Democratic comrades (and he uses that word proudly) tell him to pipe down, that these people are pathetic enough and it does no good to rub it in--but Mad Dog thinks not: Make these people feel the public humiliation they have so richly earned; make them crawl back under the rocks from which they have slithered forth, warmed by the rays from Mr. Trump. Let them feel the sting, and maybe they will not believe so ardently in burning the whole system down.