The way it’s supposed to happen is that when a controversy arises over an event or a statement, the perception of which stirs preconceived biases resulting in irrational polarization that can lead to argument, shoving, mayhem, even war…after the kerfuffle, benign or tragic, the folly of the wrong-sided becomes so evident, that someone from the other-sided says, “See?”, and everyone shrugs and moves along.

I fear the rules may have changed.  Perhaps, it’s the rapid rise of twittering thumb communication, maybe there’s been a deterioration of inbred humanity caused by pollution and an unchecked genetically modified food supply, or, just because it was statistically bound to happen, this time, evil wins.

I watched, (I CAN NOT LOOK AWAY), the utterly worthless biological specimen posing as the leader of free world, mumbling and bumbling, (I love The Drowsy Chaperone), his way through a self-produced TV celebration of himself and the lethal force he is capable of unleashing with either of his Twitter thumbs. That he is a coward who shirked military service, not for some righteously conscientious objection, but for a bullshit non-existent medical condition, seemed lost on the wrong-sided crowd who cheered his revisionist, pulled-straight-out-of-his-ass history of the US military.  I found myself daydreaming, (as I often do to minimize the number of times I throw up in my mouth), being in the writers’ room of the Netflix series with this preposterous plotline, pushing for my ending to this particular episode.  It goes something like:

As the forty-third and final flyby of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang backfires its way down the National Mall, Stephen Miller whispers in Trump’s ear

Miller

Do the Lincoln thing!

Trump raises a beefy arm and half-turns toward the magnificent statue of Honest Abe

Trump

On this, the 240-somethingth…somebody check my math…birthday of America, the absolutely best birthday of all the 240-whatever…I am proud to be the heir to the legacy of the great Abraham Lincoln, who…

As Trump continues to blow his own horn – CUT TO CLOSE-UP OF LINCOLN’S FACE – The statue begins to animate.  The brows raise and Abe’s placid expression becomes a deep frown.  As Trump continues rambling – CAMERA PULLS BACK AS ABE RISES FROM HIS COMFY CHAIR, STEPS FORWARD AND STOMPS TRUMP FLAT

Crowd

(Collective gasp)

Abe looks over the stunned crowd, stretches his arms wide, palms up and shrugs 

Abe

See?