Tuesday open thread: An epiphany

I have these little... leaps in time. Strange occurrences which are most likely the firing of synapses. Where something, some epiphany, bounds into my consciousness that the future will not be idiocracy, that this is a painful but passing age.

I present the most recent spur to that thought:

In case you didn't know, French president Emmanuel Macron is suing weird Black Nazi Candace Owen, because Owen claimed on her show that his wife was a man.

Now. If I were being sued by the president of a nuclear power, I would reconsider all my life choices which led to that point.

However, I am an educated, somewhat rational human being. I believe in data, not dogma. Candace Owen is not... that.

She moved from the far left to the amusingly Nazi right. A Nazi right which just LOVES Black women married to white men with mulatto children.

I would quickly deal. Not Candace.

She actually fucking doubled-down, and somehow made it infinitely worse! I do not know how a Universe which produced the Horsehead Nebula and the 1969 Mets could also produce the Ford Pinto and Candace Owen.

The president of a world power is suing you, and you dig in. THAT is idiocy.

And that is when I had that epiphany.

These people are frightening. These people are swollen with pride. These people are having a taste of revenge against those who they perceive as being their oppressors.

But.

They are too stupid to do anything long lasting with this power.

IT. WILL. SUCK. It will hurt. We will be ready to throw in the towel.

But that is an illusion. One of the bright lights of the right-sphere is about to be made penniless by a foreign leader, and she's too stupid to grok this.

There will be no escaping hurt. And sadly, no escaping death. This is what happens when you live cheek by jowl with people blinded by their own hatred. But they will not win, because in the end they don't have the intelligence to hold on to any temporary gain. They can be and are being resisted. Bit by bit they are losing. And why? Because they do things like Candace Owen is doing, poking the tiger until the tiger reaches out and sinks his claws into them.

Be ready to fight. Be ready to fight for your lives and those of whom you love. But know that this is a fight that we can win.

This is your open thread.