What happens when the Oregon House representative you supported leaves the GOP because he saw that they only use their office to be performative for other performers?
What happens when your believed Elon Musk/DOGE would transform the US Government in 90 days, but then turned out to be accelerationist vandals)?
What happens when you’re a farmer and watch your rotting soybeans get evicted from the local grain elevator, unsold?
What happens when you believe you’re a “good” hispanic and it turns out MAGA hates you anyway?
What happens when it begins to look like ANTI-FAscist may actually be a form of self-preservation?
By now, we’ve seen a thousand of these “what happens when” scenarios, many falling under the heading of “FAFO.”
It’s not surprising then that locally we see frequent anarchic/conservative BBQ posters taking up a more eccentric and conspiratorial outlook.
There’s Dixie Darrow’s latest attack of her fellow community members for being “BBQ Marchers” for free speech —a demeaning simplification—while she herself points to the wisdom of Vladimir Putin’s messianic/slavic imperialist mentor, Aleksandr Dugin.
And dear Andy now points at so many distinct oppressive conspiracies that you need a spreadsheet running on a AI-ready 16-core gaming PC just to keep track of them all. He declares Peter Thiel to be fascist but then (apparently) spends a lot of his screen time looking at and sharing content from Thiel’s apocalyptic version of YouTube, rumble.com.
The dawn-of-realization phase of MAGA’s profound failure is going to be turbulent. And local folks will still be there regardless, somewhere along Highway 101, protesting.
Gene Dieken