There have been occasions in my life where I have had someone tell me what it is that I think. Knowing the human condition as I do, I suspect we have all experienced this at one time or another. It is really annoying. Especially when they are wrong!
Probably twenty years ago, I and my late wife, my brother, and his soon-to-be ex-wife, who was typically argumentative, decided we’d go out to dinner at the local pizza parlor. While our wives went up to the counter to order the pizza, my brother and I went to the bar to get beer for us all. I had no more than sat down at our table when my brother’s wife came running towards me from the counter with my wife in hot pursuit. She demanded to know somewhat indignantly whether I liked thin or thick crust pizza. I quizzically looked at her and said that I have always liked only thick crust and despise thin crust pizza, to which my wife responded to my brother’s betrothed, “See? I think I know what my husband likes.” My brother’s wife was having none of it and told me that she was absolutely sure that I had liked thin crust.
That was typical of Pam.
It wasn’t too long after that my brother got a divorce and she was involuntarily placed under medical supervision for being completely nuts. (Not necessarily just because of this incident though – at least I assume so.)
Well, it seems like the certifiably nuts contagion is spreading these days. What is even more ironic is that I have been accused of this very thing by one of the goof balls that is always guilty of this exact faux pas towards me when it comes to politics. Indeed, I have been called an authoritarian, racist, homophobe, Trump-supporter, and neo-Nazi for years by one particular individual who may actually be in the terminal stages of leftist Kool-aide intoxication. It doesn’t matter what I write or say to the contrary. The fact is that I disagree with his leftist bunk, so he must know what kind of pizza I like!
I have always strongly disliked Trump, which I have reiterated ad nauseum. Indeed, I didn’t even vote for him the first time he ran. Nor did I vote for him the primary this year. Mr. Kool-aide insists that I am a blind follower, admirer, and believer of his lies. It does no good to explain that Trump is the lesser of two evils, and having seen how Biden and Trump have each governed, I choose Trump to be president. I don’t like him, trust him, or believe a lot of what he says. I believe in NOTHING that the head of the Biden crime family says or does. It is a painful choice. But I must like that damned cracker-crust pizza according to this one individual.
What is really ironic, interesting, and hypocritical on his behalf is that this individual has accused me of supporting a racist and neo-Nazi, while this person supports all of the racist BLM, DEI, critical race theory nonsense and thinks it is necessary for Israel to immediately commence a cease-fire in the hopes of one day establishing a two-state solution with the very people that voted for the government that is actually calling for a genocide of the entire Jewish people. Disconnect much?
According to him, “Believing Trump's lies is what makes Americans neo-Nazis.” Meanwhile he is actually championing modern day Nazis hoping to exterminate the Jews that Hitler couldn’t, while he erroneously blames Israel for the “Israeli land theft, apartheid, terrorism, the Palestinian Nakba and GAZA holocaust.” A little research of other-than-left-wing propaganda would prove that all of that is a lie.
This person has long parroted that, “The authoritarian personality has a characteristic over-active and enlarged primitive amygdala, the brain's fear/fight/flight center. This is why they readily embrace whatever triggers their anger, fear and hate.”
While there probably is a legitimate scientific basis for this conclusion, the irony is that an authoritarian is using this in hyperbolic propaganda-fashion to support the limitation of constitutional freedoms because he assumes that I and other like-minded conservatives are the one wanting to restrict the democratic process and destroy our nation, while his president has actually been doing this.
The whole ludicrous backwards notion is enough to make me tired and hungry. Maybe I’ll go see if I can find some deep-dish pizza somewhere, even though I supposedly don’t like it.
