This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Early in my life during the barbaric times. Polling data was collected through movie theater popcorn sales. “Do you want Kennedy popcorn or Nixon popcorn?” This was stealth data collection with no guarantees your data wouldn’t be sold to a third party. Today that wouldn’t work, who can afford movie theater popcorn after getting scalped at the door?

So here is some interesting raw data. Kamala Harris’s Fox News interview drew four times the network’s normal audience. Who was in that audience surge? Democrats wanting to support Harris? Or curious and fearful Republicans, who don’t want to vote for Donald Trump anymore but are afraid to say so publicly. Give them one good reason and they are yours.

The seven million viewers tuned in because they were looking for something. That something, should frighten the Trump team to high heaven. In a Republican centric media operation, millions upon millions of their viewers wanted to look at Kamala Harris and listen to what she said. Obviously, if the Fox viewers were satisfied with their own candidate, they would have little interest in watching anyone else. The first rule of new car salesmanship says, If they are willing to look, they are willing to buy!

Any little curiosity is the key to open that door. Beware the women! For they are most susceptible to a strong and clear-headed message of a female leader. Somewhere in the halls of Fox News someone is bemoaning a mistake. “You said, she wouldn’t do THAT good!” If Ms. Harris had only doubled the normal Fox audience, it would be an interesting statistic. But Four times the normal audience? That’s a scary black cloud over Mt. Vesuvius on a Herculaneum weekend.

That statistic just says awful things for Donald Trump. Three weeks out from the election and millions were willing to listen to his opponent. Ask yourself, if still undecided at this point. What’s the problem here? They like Donald Trump and are just hesitant to pull the trigger? Or something about Donald Trump is stuck in their craw? Trump has said or done something which has shaken them to the point of uncertainty. They are looking for one good reason not to vote for Donald Trump in November.

Remember, you read it here first! Donald Trump has cancelled another mainstream interview this time with NBC. I told you; they are going to try and hide him from public view because Trump’s no longer controllable and is subject to say anything. “Everybody dance, let’s all do the bunny hop!”

Mr. Trump’s unannounced 39-minute disco party is as they say down south, has taken the rag off of the bush. That tore it for good. No more interviews! I told you. He can’t be trusted in front of the media anymore. Just out of a curious interest in trivia. Who was the last Republican politician of any repute to have appeared on stage with Mr. Trump? Mitch McConnell basically called Mr. Trump a vile piece of shit. When was the last time that ever happened?

Nikki Haley said she’d vote for Trump only because he’s the Republican nominee and she just has to hold her nose and vote for the Republican. With all the enthusiasm of a plastic bag in the wind. Because I have to!

Last time around in this sunburned Arizona berg. The Republican road signs proclaimed, “Trump Endorsed! Trump approved! He loves me like a son, but not like Eric.”  This time around crickets. No mention of what’s his name. Never heard of him. What are Republicans trying to tell us? It would appear there is an enthusiasm gulf. Down ballot Republicans no longer seeking Trump endorsements. Because they believe doing so will only hurt their chances in the general election. What do these Republican politicians know they don’t want you to know?

A doomed cruise onboard the Mary Celeste sailing on the lost seas and infamy of electoral defeat forever. A Kamikaze mission with no survivors. I get the impression the Republicans really don’t have their hearts in it, but the Trumpers just dragged them along. But after Trump’s first term and January 6^th millions upon millions of Republicans have serious doubts about Donald Trump. Three weeks out from an election and they are willing to listen to Donald Trump’s opponent. (WTF?)

A sign the cult is dying. It’s last days at the Fuhrer bunker! Come November 6^th Donald Trump will either be President of the United States or a plump turkey on Thanksgiving week. It’s all over Cinderella back to your flooring scrubbing. The ball is over! Back to square one, rebuilding a political party destroyed by Donald Trump.

A Party now infested with White Supremacists, xenophobic Nazis, the loosely educated and loosely attached to reality. When I was a boy, the Klan were the worst of Republicans. Today they are almost moderate Republicans. That leaves a stain of uncertainty which won’t go away. Who are these guys really?

The bank President doesn’t want to party with the motorcycle club chapter president. The religious Reich doesn’t want to party with skinheads from Idaho. Republicans are at heart about a class structure. It’s really very simple. Either you belong to the country club, or you don’t. Donald Trump brought this disparate group of intellectual refugees together. But after November 6^th. What then?

What’s next for a Party which has sullied its britches and alienated younger voters in favor of the aged and elderly? Republicans have taken positions against the young and possibly alienated them for a generation.

I guess Trump got them all amped up and seemed like a good idea at the time. But now, with Mr. Trump so near the door to political eternity. They see only wreckage left behind and perhaps the end of the road.

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.”― Barry Goldwater

Marking Donald Trump’s place at the end of the Republican Party line as the culmination. As Puyi, the last emperor of the Republican Party.