Another way to look at the situation

Carlfig wrote:

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Most of the Hawaiian electorate, both Democrats and Republicans, are just so darn proud of the fact that their pretty, bikini wearing surfer-girl, fatigue wearing combat veteren, upwardly mobile congresswoman is taking a spot on the national stage.

Guys, there may be another way to look at this situation.

Voters are not stupid. Voters are human. We have a sense of the normal, the
day to day.

Most of us do not want to believe that things can become so terrible.

More so, most of us do not want to believe that our vote has entangled
us in a situation that is bizarre and so corrupt that it would be cartoonish
were it not that scores of young people have been scarred for life and children are still serving hard time in Butlerite households and in that jungle school in the Philippines.

We find it a stretch to imagine that a sweet young women could
be involved in something so ghastly, be born into something so ghastly
and go on to be groomed and then placed in the House of Representatives,
as though Chris Butler used her as a Barbie Doll in a game of power politics.

Part of the subconscious conditioning of most Americans who are not persons of color is that here in the USA, life is fair, and that bad guys cannot Get Away With It. can never prevail.

Thing is, the USA would never have come into existence had it not been
for a bunch of discontented British colonists who did come to believe that
matters were unacceptably vile. But, over two hundred years later, we
have lost that edge.

This message board is trying to get the same message across about cults and
their far reaching impact upon the voting process and whether law and order
becomes a dead letter when a guru lives in the neighborhood, or the polygamists
or Scientologists purchase enough real estate that they can take over a town and make their own laws.