Someone linked to video of Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention, and I listened to a minute or two before I thought: Huh -- Democrats must be pretty slow. At least their leaders think so, because they find it necessary to repeat, over and over, how bad Donald Trump is, lest Democratic voters forget between now and November, and accidentally vote for the wrong guy. It reminds me of the private sessions Squealer, the pig's propaganda chief in Animal Farm, has with the sheep to teach them new loyalty chants. The sheep aren't very bright, so a lot of drill is necessary to get them to remember such complex cheers as "Four legs good, two legs better!"
I made the above meme in 2016, and it has occurred to me that one reason people would keep making anti-Trump memes could be that it's a way to cope with Trump's omnipresence in the media, to scratch the itch. But they just add to his omnipresence, making things worse, which impels them to repeat the old ones even more, and create new ones. Ostensibly part of the idea is to win over the fabled independent voters, but do they watch the Convention? I'm technically an independent, and I sure as hell don't.
Then too, Democrats do have bad memories, as do Republicans. They remember an Obama administration that never was, a Bush administration of empathy and care, a Bill Clinton who lied but nobody died, a statesmanlike Bush I, a decent Ronald Reagan, and so on. (Someone said that Michelle Obama invoked Reagan in her speech; I'm not going to try to verify it, but it would be no surprise.) That's one function of the Convention, to celebrate that imaginary past and promise an imaginary future. Even so, is it really likely that Democrats will forget to hate Donald Trump and vote for Joe Biden? I don't believe it. But if it is, no wonder we're in trouble.
