Everyone knows the key to a good trick is deflection.
If the magician can get the crowd to look to the left while he does something on the right he’s ahead of the game.
The republican party has become masters of the magical world of deflection in that they are constantly getting the public to blame the ‘left’ for things they have done and continue to do on the ‘right’!
Just like most magic tricks, once you know how it’s done the mystery is gone, along with the thrill.
A true magician must continually tweak his act in order to remain mysterious and popular.
Information overload is also a good method of deflecting awareness of what is really going on.
A perfect example is ‘The Three Ring Circus'.
You may or may not love the flying trapeze act in the center ring, but you will not be bored because the clowns in ring number one have the crowd rolling in the aisles.
And look to your left where the beautiful blonde lady is standing on her horse while it races around the third ring!
But sitting just behind the curtain on the right are the architects of the ‘entertainment’.
Armed with their algorithms and pollsters they gather information on what works and what needs more work to work. And they devise insidious questions aimed at getting what they want to work, to work.
Comedians know that a guy getting hit with a cream pie or walking into a pole might not draw a laugh.
BUT if there's another guy watching the pie fly or the nose meet the pole, it's the look on the second guy's face that gets you to laugh.
That’s why Fox’s Carlson has made a career on right wing television.
His absurdly fake dumbfounded ‘How can this be happening’ look works on his mesmerized viewers as they suspend all logic and react with whatever emotion he is trying to elicit.
And he tweaks his act by setting up the center ring of shame by asking absurd questions that imply the obvious guilt of the subject in today's crosshairs.
He will ask a guest, or planted clown, “How do you feel about crime being up under the Biden administration?”
Invariably the answer that was preplanned is accompanied by the now infamous Carlson ‘open-mouthed’ stare of disbelief.
And Tuck's ridiculous act has been so successful that those in Congress with nothing constructive of their own have adopted and adapted the tactic.
When Ted Cruz and the rest of the clowns on the right used Tucker’s fake dismay to falsely accuse and ‘diss’ Supreme Court justice nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, they were playing to their audience.
When they asked if she thought babies were racist, or ‘Can you define what a woman is’, they were hoping to taint her with the same undeserved guilt as one would paint a married man with by asking him, “When did you stop beating your wife?”
And naturally the answer does not matter since the question itself has already elicited the desired effect.
And their 'base' loves it!
These tactics are not new.
They have been used by con-artists, grifters and flim-flam men for ages.
The latest and most obvious example was recently voted out of the White House after he lost the popular vote for the second time.
But because the tactics seem to work on enough voters, who have little or no desire to do their own research, the lack of veracity of the implications cause enough of a negative stain on the recipient to attain their desired end result.
And when the questioner uses a disgusted look, he seals the deal.
The ‘right’ stopped being right for most of America when they stopped caring about America and started realizing they could win by deflecting.
Gas prices are up?
Look who’s in power!
Milk costs more?
Blame Biden (Or Obama, or Clinton, random Democrat in your district.)
“We did not cause any of the inflation that’s hurting your bottom line because we are not in power. But if you vote for us, we can clean up the mess”.
Does the above sound familiar?
It should.
It is the 'lather - rinse - repeat' tactic used by the GOP every time a Democrat is in power.
The republican party blocks everything the Democrats try to get done and when the pain of nothing getting done starts to hurt, lather up!
And all the while the 'right' will hide their ‘do nothing’ agenda and ‘no platform for America’ mentality by pointing to the left.
The sad part is that when a magician does it, we laugh, but when the Republican Party does it, Americans die!
