This week it’s hey, what did you expect? He’s doing exactly what he said! He said he was going to take on Wall Street, and by golly, he took on all their people right into his administration and is now advancing their dream agenda! What? Huh? Never mind! You were taking him literally but not spiritually!

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And speaking of spiritually, Trump of course isn’t personally religious and is an ethical cesspool, but he was supported by so-called religious voters, because they knew he would advance their agenda against liberals. This agenda is known as “damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” It refers to the GOP policy that if Democrats work with them, the GOP will do what it wants and the Democrats will take the blame, or if Democrats refuse to work with them, the GOP will do what it wants and the Democrats will take the blame.

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This is also known as “learned helplessness,” the condition acquired when a lab animal receives painful shocks no matter what action it takes and eventually cowers, immobilized.

Feeling a bit that way? If you aren’t feeling as though you may be going insane, that’s only because you already have gone insane. This is the true diabolical lesson of Orwell, and Trump. Not that you can’t tell a lie, or can’t tell the truth, but you can’t tell the difference. And as goes truth, so goes sanity.

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