{"id":7399,"date":"2024-10-01T08:19:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2024-10-01T08:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:19:39","slug":"how-low-can-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/how-low-can-we-go\/","title":{"rendered":"How Low Can We Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><em>\u201cJoe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country,\u201d \u2013 Donald Trump, at a rally in Prairie du Chen, Wisconsin.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fifth Grade Playground<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYou\u2019re stupid.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019re Dad\u2019s stupid too, but at least he was smart once.\u00a0\u00a0He just got old.\u00a0\u00a0You were born stupid\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0\u00a0could\u2019ve heard it on the 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0grade playground while I was sub-teaching at school.\u00a0\u00a0But, to be honest, I\u2019d expect better from fifth graders.\u00a0\u00a0After all, they are one step away from the emotional crucible of middle school.\u00a0\u00a0The insults should be more creative.\u00a0\u00a0And the whole parent side, \u201cyour Dad\u2019s stupid too\u201d, is just dumb, carefully answered by, \u201cYou don\u2019t even know my Dad\u201d or the ultimate payback, \u201cMy Dad\u2019s dead!!!!\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0So, like any good teacher, I\u2019d break up the insults, both for being mean, and for lacking in creativity.\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s never going to work next year in the Middle School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Or at least I would, but it\u2019s not happening on the fifth grade playground in the shadow of the geodesic climbing dome.&nbsp;&nbsp;And it\u2019s not an argument about who got \u201cknocked out\u201d in \u201cGaga Ball\u201d (now all the rage, a cross between four square and dodge ball in an enclosed octagon).&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, it\u2019s happening on America\u2019s greatest \u201cdebate\u201d stage, the campaign for the Presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Seriously<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">You\u2019d think the first thing a candidate for President would want to be is<strong> serious<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I mean, no one wants the most powerful person, the avowed leader of the free world, the person in charge of the weapons to destroy the entire planet, to be \u201c<strong>un-serious<\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That doesn\u2019t mean candidates can\u2019t laugh, enjoy the show, and even dance to the rally music.\u00a0\u00a0But when it comes down to it, to the issues and crises of our times, it\u2019s not a laughing matter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is serious stuff, for serious people.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cyou\u2019re stupid\u201d argument should have been left on the playground, actually, the second grade playground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Oh wait, we \u201cadulted up\u201d the language.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead of \u201cstupid\u201d, it\u2019s now \u201cmentally disabled\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;That \u201cadulting\u201d doesn\u2019t really change the issue, but it does manage to insult not only the other party, but everyone who actually suffers from mental disabilities; from brain cancer survivors to stroke victims.&nbsp;&nbsp;And many of them can vote; so, nice job there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All\u2019s Fair<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There are legitimate differences between the Presidential candidates.&nbsp;&nbsp;Issues like immigration, abortion, managing the economy, tariffs and taxation, handling a complex world situation, and the growing diversity of the American population and life; all require serious solutions.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In a \u201cWest Wing\u201d world, the candidates would layout their plans, and the voters would decide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But, my \u201cWest Wing\u201d reference is dated, and so is my hope that our politics could rise above personal insult.&nbsp;&nbsp;Michelle Obama used to say, \u201cWhen they go low, we go higher\u201d back in the day.&nbsp;&nbsp;But that day, at least for one side of the election, is long gone.&nbsp;&nbsp;Both sides learned the other lesson of American politics:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAll\u2019s fair in love and war\u2026and politics\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;So in our current era, our politics trends to the lowest common denominator.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Even the network news is giving up on accuracy:&nbsp;&nbsp;CBS won\u2019t factcheck tonight\u2019s Vice Presidential debate.&nbsp;&nbsp;Facts are too \u201ccontroversial\u201d, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Context<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">So we are left with a campaign where one side uses childish insults, and makes things up out of whole cloth.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve already written about \u201ceating the pets\u201d (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/scared-dogs\/\">Scared Dogs<\/a>)<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0But after some consideration, I don\u2019t think \u201ceating the pets\u201d was some leap of Facebook fancy that JD Vance picked up by happenstance.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s too \u201cconvenient\u201d to be a mistake.\u00a0\u00a0As Vance himself said, he needed to create\u00a0(his words) a \u201ccontext\u201d to raise the issue of immigrants.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But the Trump\/Vance ticket is making inroads into the Latino vote.\u00a0\u00a0They couldn\u2019t afford to have Vance\u2019s \u201ccontext\u201d built around Central or South American migrants; that might offend their new\u00a0\u00a0Latino Republican friends in Florida, Texas, Nevada and Arizona.\u00a0\u00a0So they had to \u201cfind\u201d a different migrant group, even if they were LEGAL migrants,INVITED to Springfield, Ohio to help fill jobs in that the hollowed-out post-industrial town.\u00a0\u00a0Springfield was dying; the Haitian migrants help in the recent revitalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strategic Racism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Haitians aren\u2019t Latino, they\u2019re Creole.\u00a0\u00a0Their native language is based on French, not Spanish.\u00a0\u00a0And they are Black, not the mixture of Spanish, Native American and African of many Latinos.\u00a0\u00a0So attacking them was a \u201csafe\u201d bet for the Trump\/Vance campaign.\u00a0\u00a0They would only offend those that weren\u2019t likely to support them anyway (though they offended the Haitian vote in Florida, another key state in a potential Trump victory).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My point:&nbsp;&nbsp;attacking the Haitians in Springfield was a strategic decision, not just some Trump \u201cword salad\u201d (he\u2019d call it a \u201cweave\u201d).&nbsp;&nbsp;It even took precedence over the Latino gangs in Aurora, Colorado.&nbsp;&nbsp;That makes it all the worse:&nbsp;&nbsp;the Trump\/Vance team aren\u2019t fools, they\u2019re racists.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And if you want to say I\u2019m \u201cname calling\u201d too; 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Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country,\u201d \u2013 Donald Trump, at a rally in Prairie du Chen, Wisconsin. Fifth Grade Playground \u201cYou\u2019re stupid.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019re Dad\u2019s stupid too, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/how-low-can-we-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Low Can We Go&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Low Can We Go : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/how-low-can-we-go\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Low Can We Go : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cJoe Biden became mentally impaired. 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