Here we go

 Slowly but surely the house is emptying. Room by room we evacuate.  Selling what we can has been a surprise.  Most of our furniture has been purchased by friends.  The Kadizzles will be able to visit friends and our old furniture at the same time.  It was nice to find good homes for the furniture.  We pulled the trigger and bought a new camper yesterday.  That means we have to haul this one to Missoula and get the other one.  Since we also bought a new truck we have to drive the first five hundred miles under fifty milers per hour.  That should be fun. 

The level of insanity reached by the country is like the virus, the spread of  stupidity.  Trump gets worse every day and more blatant in his lying and cheating,  yet his cult never waives. What could Trump do to lose the cult members?  Kadizzle sees people he knows who are cult members and just cannot comprehend how they do it.  

How do people believe things that make absolutely no sense?  Really it should not be that surprising. People have always believed nonsense.  Look at religion.  Worldwide people make up some silly story and believe it.  The failure of logic is at the heart of the matter.  Some person sells the simple minded a theory that is so bogus a child would not buy it, but the dingers do.  Conspiracy theories are selling today like hot cakes.  The psychology of stupidity is a study in itself.  Always there is the desire to believe.  The health food market is a classic.  Just take this pill, drink this water, and do this exercise, and all will be well.  What do magicians do?  Magicians play on diversion, and your desire to be fooled.  What does Trump do? Trump plays on your desire to believe lies.  Trump knows how to appeal to your worst instincts.  Figuring out how to manipulate people has been an age old trick.  No one mastered it like churches.  Give me some money every Sunday and I will sell you salvation.  Farmers figured it out. You could get more salvation by staying home and harvesting the wheat before it rained.  Sometimes logic intervenes.   You are giving money to a group that rapes little boys?  Oh it is just a few odd ones.  Rationalization, works in favor of the charlatans.  November will reveal if the fog is lifted or if the tidal wave of ignorance has overwhelmed us.