{"id":13616,"date":"2024-09-19T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=13616"},"modified":"2024-09-19T22:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T22:00:58","slug":"your-eyes-are-getting-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/your-eyes-are-getting-heavy\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Eyes Are Getting Heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lafe Tolliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
\nGuest Column<\/p>\n

Remember the early days of TV programming in which the star of the show was a hypnotist who professed that he could lull your brain into a state of stupor\u00a0by his suggestions and you would obey?<\/p>\n

As a TV watcher, to see such a display of mastery over a person\u2019s intellect or\u00a0will power was a Wow! factor and when the person came out of the hypnotic state, he professed not to have known what he did or said during that time of\u00a0the induced manipulation.<\/p>\n

The hypnotist would, as part of his scheme, use a watch on a chain or\u00a0another object which he would swing in the face of the gullible subject until\u00a0the eyes of the subject went \u201cheavy\u201d and then slump or go brain neutral for a period of time.<\/p>\n

The watching audience would have laughs at the antics that the hypnotized\u00a0subject would do or say under the commands of the hypnotist. When the subject\u00a0 snapped out of it, he professed that he had no idea what happened during that lull.<\/p>\n

Well, in a shorthanded way of speaking, gullible America is under the hypnotic spell and commands of Donald Trump when he lulls distraught voters with his chain watch of a dystopian America in which \u201cothers\u201d are invading us and even \u201cimported\u201d Haitians are eating dogs and cats and stealing geese from the local ponds in Springfield, Ohio!<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has harnessed the grievances and gripes of a large segment of\u00a0the American society that believe, right or wrong, they are being cheated out of their fair share of the goodies that they believe that they are entitled to.<\/p>\n

Those disaffected Americans rant and rail at those Washington elites and\u00a0other governmental officials whom they blame for their misery and lack of\u00a0upward mobility.<\/p>\n

They are malleable to suggestions that a strong and vigorous personality\u00a0type (like Trump) will be their savior by leading them out of the wilderness of denied opportunities and to new vistas that they are clamoring to experience.<\/p>\n

In their opinion, traditional politicos have failed to deliver them the goods and services that they believe are being enjoyed by everyone else but them.<\/p>\n

To many of them, those \u201cothers\u201d are hoarding the feed trough thus making\u00a0no room for them. It is at such times that their resentments and injuries, both real and imagined, cause them to recalibrate their opinions and impressions of what it means to \u201cwait and take your time\u201d and your turn will come.<\/p>\n

No more.<\/p>\n

While under the induced spell of the hypnotist, Donald Trump, they are told\u00a0that they have been abandoned by the current in-place institutions and that\u00a0they are repeatedly told to fight for their space in the sun.<\/p>\n

Images of \u201cothers\u201d receiving ill-gotten governmental benefits and being recipients of affirmative action; and with right-wing venues of information feeding them an unrelenting diet of grievances and half-truths, which, left unchecked, leads to pent up anger and hostilities.<\/p>\n

Enter stage right: Donald Trump and his bombastic and shrill offerings that\u00a0only he can right the ship and only he can return \u201ctheir\u201d America to a past in which they were sitting at the main dining table and not at the kiddies\u2019 table.<\/p>\n

Enter stage right: Donald Trump and his fire hose of lies and distortions that\u00a0are eerily manufactured to seem as if his audience\u2019s grievances are his grievances; and as if their fight is his fight, even though he is a billionaire who has never once identified with their plight.<\/p>\n

But, when you are under a spell of hypnosis, truth and facts are malleable\u00a0and, when necessary, can be dispensed with altogether as being too much of a bother to verify.<\/p>\n

Under the spell of the hypnotist, you are given permission to act out your\u00a0anger and frustrations because the hypnotist encourages you to Make America Great Again and to follow him to your economic and political nirvana.<\/p>\n

Under the delusional power of Donald Trump, up is down and down is up.<\/p>\n

Truths are negotiable. Right is wrong and wrong is right. All that is needed is for you to believe and act according to your Svengali\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t worry. Your strongman will pardon your indiscretions with pardons if you are convicted and with jobs if he is elected. What could go wrong!<\/p>\n

The presumed power of the hypnotist is so wonderful and powerful that\u00a0men and women who are not directly under his spell, voluntarily place themselves under his sway because it just seems so right to be a part of such a wonderful and glorious movement of making America great again!<\/p>\n

And if, perchance, you are questioned as to what makes this movement so alluring, you simply mouth the platitudes and blather provided to you while under his spell.<\/p>\n

Such is the abysmal state of the political landscape in America in which\u00a0one political party has jettisoned any semblance of being moored to values\u00a0and safety checks that would in any other time, throw out such a charlatan and\u00a0\u00a0consummate con as this hypnotist.<\/p>\n

But until the hypnotized wake up and regroup and come to their senses and\u00a0sheepishly recognize that they been fooled and hoodwinked, Donald Trump will\u00a0spout his unending political lies and gibberish until the voters end his amazing but dangerous American carnage.<\/p>\n

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Contact Lafe Tolliver at lafe.tolliver@juno.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Comments to: tolliver@juno.com<\/p>\n

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