Liberal Dissonance Or Dissociation

"Pull the wool over your own eyes" instructs Bob, the sub-genious. This is the motto for the US "progressive" liberal who is now fretting over the 2024 Presidential election. They bemoan the Supreme Beings decision to stall Trump's trial because "a surprisingly large segment of the electorate has either no idea or slight knowledge of the charges against Trump," according to Thomas Edsal in the NY Times. He (like every liberal) is worried about Trump taking power when the real worry should be that many incredibly stupid people running through the streets of America. How do they imagine a democracy could exist amongst that much ignorance? Paul Krugman, Michelle Cottle, Ezra Klein, and all my progressive friends flail as they try to explain the man's support because in Liberaland, capitalist democracy, like the "arc of history", tends toward justice. It is rational and outcomes depend on reasoned debate and consideration of the "issues". You remember: Kennedy vs Nixon, William Buckley vs Gore Vidal or James Baldwin. Intellectuals with opposing ideas. The "good old days", back when "ideas" had some cache. Having no way to analyze the ways today's capitalism is different from that time's capitalism, liberals can only remain, befuddled, outraged, astounded at the "degradation of discourse". They want to make America great again. Go back to the time before clowns, when serious folks ran things. But that horse left that barn for a reason and if all you can do is moan and wail and pull your hair...The fact is, in capitalist "democracy", everyone is voting for "uncommited".