Republicans have used projection so often, I’m pretty sure it’s become a mind-set. Like a steel bear trap, a mind-set is impossible for a person to get out of on their own.
The old stories of hunters found in a bear trap they set themselves, describe awful deaths. The worst of these stories are of hunters who freed themselves by cutting off their leg, only to bleed to death, or die of gangrene’s rotting flesh. Worse yet, maybe, are hunters eaten alive by vultures, one painful peck after another. For some reason, vultures like the eyes best.
As the old saying goes, “Oh the tangled webs we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
When people lie, act dishonestly or use projection, they set in motion a domino game of complications which eventually flies out of control and traps them, rather than their prey.
I mention this, by way of saying, stay away, the vultures are already circling. None other than Mitch McConnell, has already landed and is pecking away at Republicans trapped in mind-sets, they set all by themselves. Liars and projectors have no defense. Telling the truth cannot free them. Lies cannot free them. Projection cannot free them.
Democrats are famous, and infamous, for their independence. As they say, keeping Democrats together, is like herding cats – impossible. Nonetheless, this independent streak is a wildly effective and powerful defense, against those with herd instincts. The herd will catch one or two cats, maybe, but one cat cannot feed a herd, and none can feed, until they fight off their own herd.
Great military strategists study nature for a reason. Understanding how nature works, is how they learn how people work. In asymmetrical warfare, the wolves study the lion, the lion studies the herd, the vultures study the eagle, the eagle studies mice, the mice study wolves.
The great Republican feeding frenzy has already begun. Soon enough, the stench of rotting flesh will drive Republican voters away from the polls and keep them at a distance, for years to come. Until then, I think it best to behave like cats; sharp fanged and clawed, self-reliant, adorable, cuddly, softly purring and utterly un-predictable cats.
Apparently, I woke up in the mood for good, old-fashioned, fairy tale wisdom.
