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WotD: Sanewashing
In today’s world, the term sanewashing has unfortunately emerged as a critical phrase in the conversation about American politics.
Sanewashing or sane-washing is trying to minimize or reduce the radical aspects of a person or idea to make them appear more acceptable to a wider audience.
I have grown tired of watching influential American talking heads stating with a straight face that good ol’ Trumpy didn’t say what he did or he meant something completely different.
They are attempting to manipulate perceptions of the man.
What the American Republican party has become is a perfect example of power-hungry cling-ons willing to follow an insane leader hoping to attain a morsel of power for themselves.
I often wonder how they sleep at night.
When good ol’ Trumpy stands at a podium during a presidential debate and says, ‘They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there’ about illegal immigrants, you have to think the man is insane.
Sanewashing something like that by attempting to make it sound like it came from a competent human being in their right mind dumbfounds intelligent people in all of America’s allied countries.
Are Americans that gullible?
Are they going to drink the Kool-Aid of sanewashing en masse and March us all into a world of chaos, upheaval and, more likely than not, World War Three?
Will Trumpy’s inner circle somehow sanewash leaving Nato, abandoning their allies and declaring war on thousands of female and child immigrants?
Who knows until all the votes are counted?
If they are all counted, that is.
All summer long, I’ve watched American idiots sanewashing good ol’ Trumpy’s chaotic stream-of-consciousness blurbs.
If it doesn’t stop soon, I feel I will be the next to go crazy!
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