Grabel’s Law, and Trumpublican Math

Grabel’s Law states:  2 is not equal to 3, even at very large values of 2.

It is fun, and funny, because it pokes subtle fun at both math speak gobbledygook, and math ignorance.

Like many jokes, Grabel’s Law is also true, and reveals a hidden reality.  Some things will never equate. And mass, size, or volume of the competing items does not alter that. 

So, how does that apply to the Trumpublicans?  Well, restate Grabel’s Law this way:  “Dumb does not equal Smart, even at very large concentrations of Dumb.”  Or, “Blind Faith does not equal Science, even at firmly held concentrations of Blind Faith.”

Sadly, we are seeing two concentrations of Dumb on a previously unimaginable scale.  The first, of course, is in that portion of the electorate who were fooled by the con man, and voted for him based on a whole list of statements which, even before he takes the oath, we know, and he admits, he will not deliver. They hate the “elitist establishment”, yet were dumb enough to be tricked into somehow believing that a billionaire was neither an elitist nor a part of the establishment.  They were fooled, by media owned by the elite; by carefully crafted dog-whistle messages; and by Oligarchy money stretching from the Cayman Islands, to Wall Street, to the Kremlin, and elected the Oligarchy’s own candidate. They are going to get the hate and bigotry they so loved, they are just not going to get the specific walls, registries, repeals, and other agenda items.  As Indiana blogger and Public Affairs Professor Sheila Kennedy says, “The ugly truth is that most of his voters saw Trump’s bigotry, misogyny and authoritarianism as features, not bugs. They didn’t overlook his appalling behaviors—those were what attracted them.“  (By the way, that fact, and quote, are handy ammunition to have on hand when some “reasonable” Republicans try to tell you, “Give him a chance.”)  His voters, and all of us, are also going to get a looting of the public treasury and our own pockets at a scale not seen since the Robber Barons of the railroads and banks in the Nineteenth Century.

The other concentration of Dumb (if one can make a logical construction in which the absence of something—knowledge and thought in this case—can be somehow construed as concentrated.) is in the head of Donald, and the extended heads of his proposed appointees.

Regardless of the claims emanating from that anti-concentration, Donald DID NOT win in a landslide, in point of fact he didn’t win at all except perhaps on the technicality of the Electoral College—and that is modified with “perhaps” because we still have to see just how “rigged” the Republicans and the Russians managed to make the election.  Donald told us it was rigged, he just wasn’t specific about who was doing the rigging.  And, as candidate Trump would say, “Believe me, a casino owner knows about rigged games.  Bigly.”

So, don’t let Republicans grab and define the conversation.  Fight.  Use, and demand, fact.  If needed, hit them upside the head with a proverbial Clue by Four.  We can and must resist any triumph of dumb, and the hate and bigotry we see following in its wake. Resist.  Always. Everywhere.

Remember, and live by, the fact that in the real world, 2 is not greater than 3, and 2+2 still equals 4.  Remember the cries of the Labor movement and the Civil Rights movement, “The people, united, can never be defeated.”