The Jade Helm Conspiracy is Actually Dangerous, But Not for the Reasons Alex Jones Says…
So, where we lived when I was in elementary school, the headquarters for Strategic Air Command for the northern hemisphere was on the outskirts of town. At regular intervals air raid drills were conducted to keep everyone ready to respond properly in case the ground zero target a few miles from downtown came under nuclear attack from the Communists. But every once in a long while, some glitch at the Base would cause the air raid siren to go off unplanned.
I recall the weirdness of these spurious air raid alerts in which every person on the streets about the town would hesitate momentarily to nervously eye one another to see if anyone else was going to start heading for air raid shelters or begin the actions we had all learned we were supposed to take in case of a real attack. Everyone studiously maintaining an affect of unconcern as long as an undefined critical mass of other folks looked unworried.
I remember people glancing up at the sky as if to see if fighters from the air force base were scrambling, or maybe if warheads were falling.
And then, even while the siren was still wailing, people sort of quietly, hesitantly, and with an odd overlay of sheepish embarrassment went back to carrying on with their day’s tasks–everyone ignoring what very well might have been–in fact, what we were drilled to assume was–the shrieking signal of World War Three. A sort of unspoken communal suicide pact to go politely into the maelstrom without embarrassing ourselves in public.
I’ve thought about that odd phenomenon a lot all this past week, as the reports have become increasingly difficult to ignore or laugh off that the batshit right, particularly in Texas, and egged on by actual members of the real Republican Party (including contenders for the office of Commander in Chief!), have genuinely been discussing what to do about an incoherent, literally paranoid fantasy version of a civil emergency involving a conspiracy by the U.S. government, the U.S. military, and Wal-Mart to invade Texas for the purpose of conducting mass internment of Texas conservatives in local big box department stores.
Jade Helm Delusion…the terminal stage of Obama Derangement Syndrome.
And then we all look to see if anyone else is alarmed by the fact that the American right has actually slipped off the rails.
Seeing that everyone else is doing nothing more than making light-hearted jokes about it, we all go on about our business.
Hasn’t anyone else noticed that the American right are collectively like a mental patient gone off meds and rapidly decompensating? For real?
And I wonder who’s more nuts, the paranoid rightwing freaks that have made one of Alex Jones’ silly nightmare scenarios an actual public concern, or the rest of us who don’t think it’s important that the right is now actually no longer capable of participating in self-government (or possibly even reality).
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