No one noticed

Trump is bug fucking crazy.  Of course his followers don't notice.  What do his fans watch?  Nothing but Fox News?  Kadizzle is sitting here in the Earth Module listening to NPR.   The story just finished.  The story related how Trump goes off script and runs the White House like his reality show.  When you meet a Trump fan and ask them what they think of Trump now that he has clearly shown he is crazy they always say " He is doing exactly what he said he would do".   The right wing dinger is telling you we hired a nut, we got a nut, why are you surprised? 

The Kadizzles are news junkies.  Our routine is to awake in the morning and get up to date. We read the New York Times,  check CNN,  and have on NPR while we do it.  You can say we have a liberal bias, or leftist.  But as they say the truth has a liberal bias.  On top of our hours long pursuing of the internet news magazines full of information come to our mail box almost daily.

Perhaps we are flooded with fake news.  No matter how fake the news might be we can look out the window.  We can see roads falling apart, we can see our friends dealing with American health care, we can see things with our eyes, and hear things with our ears.  We can decide how the world that is written about synchronizes with the world we experience.

According to right wing media we all need guns to protect ourselves.  Not once this week did Kadizzle need a hand gun.  Not once this year, nor for the last 69 years did Kadizzle need a handgun, yet the right wing media tell us we need to be armed. This is a clear case where you compare reality with the news.

The greatest trick in the world the right wing media has used it the twisting of probability.  Everyone knows the chance of a coin landing on heads is equal to the probability of the coin landing on tails.  Now what is the probability of a gunman coming into you house?  What is the probability of being raped by a Mexican that just crossed the border illegally? What is the probability of winning the lottery?   So many probabilities are distorted.  Of course the person who distorts the probability want to take advantage of your fear.  That is how insurance is sold, that is how a casino operates and that is how the NRA prospers.

If something is probable it should happen once in a while.  The probability of a plane crashing is extremely low, but it happens.  Now think about trickle down economics.  Has it ever worked? No, but the simple minded dingers think there is a real probability that you can give all the money to the rich and it will benefit you.   So we live with a president that lies every day.  He has a following that believes his lies.  We have a president that by all appearances is out of his mind.  What is the probability a man obsessed with himself will bring us prosperity? What is the probability a crazy man will get us in a war?  Once you lose the ability to assess what is likely to happen you become detached from reality. 

Everyday we will go out into wild areas that have rattlesnakes.  What is the probability we will be struck by a rattlesnake?  Very, very, low.  For 18 years Kadizzle has been hiking the southwest.  In those 18 years he has encountered two rattlesnakes.  Now if Kadizzle was afraid to go into the wild because of rattlesnakes his life would be different.  Perception sculptures you life.  You can make money scaring people.  The NRA has made a fortune  for itself and gun manufactures by scaring people.  The military survives by selling people on unfounded fears. 

So how do you get people to embrace reality?  Who knows.  Fantasy is so much fun.