Actual Reality
Many of our most severe issues and their obstacles to sound public policies for dealing with them are coming together within the story of the recent Club Q mass shooting in Colorado Springs.
From the proliferation of the acting out of toxically masculine second amendment fantasies and the cynical mythologies of Law & Order to the seemingly endless series of cheaply manufactured panics over “political correctness” and “identity politics,” poison narratives infect our communications media, taking on lives of their own, intruding on cultural escape routes, like sports and entertainment, and into the most private lives and intimate relationships of each and every one of us.
Death cultist and US Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia has desperately been trying to shoehorn the BorDer CrISis! into any issue that wanders through her Twitter feed. She tried it in the aftermath of the Club Q shooting after the Independent reported her having recently tried it with Ukraine at a November 17 press conference:
“We’re ignoring the dangers happening at our border and the national security crisis that’s happening in our country while we are completely protecting another country’s border and also waging a proxy war with Russia,” she said. She also noted correctly that 56,516 Americans overdosed on fentanyl in 2020. “This is a tragedy that’s happening, and it’s practically…