I. Social Functioning Two Diverse Ways
As I have written in my book, and a number of times in early essays on this website, all communication in society, both officially uttered and privately spoken between individuals, adheres to what all the participants conform to: ‘the philosophically rooted faithful beliefs that inform and motivate (people and) society.’ (It is either ridiculable or even dangerous to step outside those parameters.)
To simply describe the two choices:
II. The Movie that Illustrates the second option – the Dramatized Phony
In 2005, one of the ten funniest movies I have ever seen was made. It was called “The Wedding Crashers.” Every so often, I replay the DVD – smiling rather than laughing out loud. I have laughed at this movie many times in the past – too many times.
The gist of the story has the two leading characters (portrayed by Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson), two Washington private-practice lawyers who are very well-paid to facilitate property settlements between infantile, privileged, spoiled, rich, divorcing couples. The lawyers ‘crash’ a host of fancy Washington weddings in ‘wedding season’ to acquire the sexual favors of female guests who are easy vulnerable ‘marks’ due to the social context.
They cleverly lie their way into every possible large and rich ethnically-varied wedding. All of this movie takes place in the ‘Washington Swamp’ of the Ruling Class.
The main story ‘soap opera type’ narrative begins about 17 minutes or so into the beginning of the wedding of one of three daughters of a very rich Cabinet-level official played by Christopher Walken.
Around 17 ½ minutes into the movie, there is a little 5 or 10 second scene where two Washington Swamp Creatures, sounding so sincere and caring, standing side by side, perform the social niceties while shaking hands with the father of the bride. (I could never dress like that or act like that – I am a 79-year life long social misfit.)
Since I acquired this used DVD less than ten years ago, I grind my teeth in anger at these two Washington Swamp Creatures – playing themselves without name identification required. The whole world has known one of these Reptiles since 1992 when he, as a ‘Political Consultant,’ led the charge bringing Democrat Party ‘Defamation of Character,’ morally-depraved, win-at-any-cost, political campaigning to our Presidential elections.
[The last Democrat Party candidate before this evil change – enabled by the Catastrophic 1965 Supreme Court Stare Decesis Error called the Sullivan Rule – was Michael Dukakis in 1988. I can never forget the innocently embarrassed smile on his face riding around in a tank. (Little did I know at that time that the Reagan defense buildup has successfully bankrupted the Soviet Union leading to the Cold War ending, in stages, from 1989 to 1993.)]
The far more innocent of the two Swamp Creature Phonies only became a phony after several years in Washington. (I so clearly remember his role as one of five senators – the Keating Five – running cover for the crook that epitomized the Saving and Loan Junk Bond Scandal.) An outline of his career is the following:
He came home, unbeknownst to me and 90% of America ever after, because in December 1972, President Nixon sent American Air Force Bombers for the first time over Hanoi and Haiphong. The first four years of Nixon’s Presidency, he stopped the Johnson buildup (then at 500,000 men) and withdrew troops (75-90%) by 1972 and had had Henry Kissinger secretly negotiating an end to the war but requiring the return of our POWs. (Johnson had coercively told the families to never speak of their plight in public or it would be bad for them. Actually, it would only be bad for Johnson.)
Until the December ‘Christmas Bombing,’ the war dragged on through President Nixon’s first four years. From the beginning of the war, North Viet Nam was totally immune from U.S. air power in two critical areas. One was in Haiphong Harbor (where some of our presumed NATO allies sent ship-loads of necessary goods to be sold) and the other was Hanoi (where our POWs were being tortured and the North Vietnamese Air Force planes could be safely based free of aerial attack).
Nixon gets all of the Public Relations blame for the war and virtually none of the credit for ending it and bringing the POWs home. If you have not figured out by now that Nixon was a patriotic hero turned into a Quintessential BAD Man by evil professional defamers empowered by the 1965 Sullivan Rule Error which enabled the truly evil Ruling Class to lie endlessly, you never will. (God bless you in your innocence and do not waste your time on any of my writings. Everyone, even closed-minded true-believers are entitled to their own opinion.)
This second Washington Swamp Creature came to Congress in 1983 and moved up to the U.S. Senate from Arizona in 1989 until his death in 2018.
Once the Cold War ended, the two most prominent and influential anti-Russia (and later anti-Putin) dogmatic fanatics were this Senator and a truly evil fraud from British Intelligence named Christopher Steele.
An outline of Christopher Steele’s history follows.
And still when the crooked Hillary campaign, criminally illegally using campaign funds to fund the fraudulent ‘Steele Dossier,’ when they tried to get many cooperative Left-Wing prestigious EVIL SCUMBAG PRESS ‘news’ organizations to report it, they failed. It was so transparently phony that they were all afraid to touch it.
But they found a solution to screw Donald J. Trump, America and what is left of the ‘Free World.’ This prestigious National Security Expert Senator sent a staff member over to London to bring the fraudulent Steele Dossier back and authorize its use. I am probably the only living human who will never forgive this war hero for what he did. No one need share my opinion. But that is my 100% Sincere Moral Judgment.
III. The Moral of the Story
And so I live in a country, going into an EXISTENTIALLY CRITICAL 2024 Presidential Election with two demonstrably different kinds of people.