Once again Tropical Soulvangelical notices that the Central Donkeys are at it again, using what TSV calls fatalism, perhaps alarmism, to try to distract from a) their attacks on Biden and b) the fact that they don't feel like they have anything to offer the populace. Gavin Newsom was on Colbert claiming something to the effect of "we may not have an election in 2028." Among other things, TSV takes this as moving the goal posts from last year. What happened then was that both Hillary Clinton and Michael Cohen both said "if -trump- wins this election, there will be no more elections." But TSV notes that among others, there's one that's going to happen in his home state and there's the one in New York City. Why, then, he wonders, doesn't the central party get alarmist about those? This he thinks they should do if -truly- there will be "no more elections." Or do they mean, no more -Presidential- elections? What is -their- definition of "election" anyway? We had primaries in both contests TSV mentions, so those don't count as "elections?" If they meant -Presidential- elections, he wonders why they didn't just say so? And here's another thing. He heard on audio this morning that Bruce Springsteen wonders whether we should have a third party because he says he doesn't believe that the central party is effective in things, and this is nearly 24 hours after Gavin Newsom's claims. At present, TSV didn't hear The Boss predict the end of elections, just his dissatisfaction with both -trump- and the central party. TSV wants to read if that's because Bruce, too, has misgivings or bitterness over how the central party attacked Biden and to date never apologized for it or sought amends. This whole bit about 2028, TSV observes, is an attempt to try to prolong a distraction from the attacks on Biden for -three whole years- as if we're going to be frozen in time at 2025 for all those years. Granted, TSV's not saying nothing bad is going to happen or -trump- won't try anything, but he thinks some perspective is in order if we -really- are going to defeat -trump- and send him to jail and hold him accountable. He thinks he talked about this one before, but generally speaking, you should -always- be concerned about democracy -in general-. He thinks that's what eternal vigilance is truly about, but that the alarmists have deliberately misinterpreted what Ben Franklin was trying to say, and in their own interests (yes Franklin mentioned that one too). Alarmism he sees as a thought terminator (and one which he has often sought to turn the tables on in order to make a point). If someone tries to tell you it's the end of the world, you then cannot argue or discuss the matter without being told you're just being in denial, but instead follow your own frightened instincts and then become malleable to the doomsayers. That's why instead of denying doomsaying predictions, TSV finds other ways of expressing skepticism about them. Where dictatorship is concerned, he wonders whether Camelot with JFK counts as a form of dictatorship in which we were made to regard the Presidency as royalty. If we truly believe in democracy, that kind of worship he contends is inappropriate, but he never hears any such reservations from the central party, only a euphoric recall type nostalgia. He resultingly also wonders whether the assasination of JFK was effectively a political bubble popping reminding us that Camelot was likely not such a good thing the central party thought it was. Both in Obama and Zohran Mamdani the central party insists on seeing a ghost of JFK, and obsessing over the supposed importance of "charisma." TSV points out that charisma is what generally causes dictatorship, because you really have to be an insecure person to be that focused on the "charisma" of the other person instead on your own self-reliance. It's pretty much cult-like thinking. Oh, and another thing. If there's truly an existential threat to democracy that Gavin Newsom supposedly describes, TSV points out that's why you have rebel groups in other countries, so instead of it being like 1984 or Hitler, it's more likely going to be like a rebellion civil war. There was never a civil war against Hitler that TSV was aware of, just World War II. That's why he thinks that tragedy in Utah happened a couple weeks ago. If push truly comes to shove, and as distasteful as it sounds, there are those who are looking to defend our values, by all means (see below)...

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