Our time is epic, but life is sometimes a cartoon. As if America were wrong, the deranged left cannot drop their obsession. They ignore the Constitution and the popular vote. Like Wile E. Coyote, they give the Road Runner no peace. He wins anyway. Welcome to the world of anti-Trump obsession.
There is something sadly wrong with those who deny democracy and will of the majority – Hispanic, black, white, old, young, women, men – who voted for Trump-Vance. This would be mildly entertaining if it were playacting or rabble-rousers, adolescent mooners of the process, or immature bottle throwers. It is not.
These are adults – or people who should be acting like adults at this age. They should be rational, familiar with losing, know how to respect others’ views and have internal balance. Disappointment, simply losing, should be manageable.
For this crowd, it is not. Colleges indulge weak-minded students, serve milk and cookies, host “cry-ins,” and offer grief counseling to near-adults, the age of those who won WWII. They are creating weaker people, disrespect for rules, history, and laws, and losing. Hollywood actors are having baby fits, and deserve timeout.
The histrionics, end-of-the-world talk television show hosts have become poster children for immaturity and too much candy as kids. They embarrass themselves and do not even see it. Pretend news anchors cry in their soup, blather about coming horrors, “concentration camps,” “Hitler,” decoupled from reality.
The truth is, half the country, or perhaps a quarter, is ill. They wander in their cultivated delusions, concerned to defend their fiction and deny reality.
Missing is a “snap out of it” from a mature friend, parent, grandparent, or real adult, who is willing to say the truth. We are not at the end times, not in a world where Trump is Hitler, or anything like it. We are in America. Wake up!
So, what is really happening? While we hope reality smartens people up and causes them to pipe down and regain their footing, it seems some Americans are not yet right.
To those who see the world as it is, this phenomenon is worrisome and creates concern for these people, their mental state, anxiety over nothing, and inability to reason.
Mental obsession, individually or in a group – “group think”– is a clinical condition. It is a real issue, and it can be encouraged or discouraged.
Modern society is filled with things that encourage obsession, anxiety, and imbalance, sources of stress from social media, texting, 24-hour pseudo-news, and go-go peer pressure to crisis alerts. Even among those who know better, people default to worry, forgetting the ways of our parents and grandparents.
The result is high cortisol levels, and unmanageable spikes in worry, fear, doubt, doomsday thinking, anxiety, depression, and paranoia. The natural tendency is to attribute this to something outside ourselves, like politics.
Technically, obsession is a “persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling,” or inability to “control of one’s thoughts,” or “a persistent …impulse … often associated with … mental illness,” or if “someone thinks about someone or something constantly or frequently…not normal.”
Jumping from the clinical to fiction, the Wicked Witch of the West was obsessed with Dorothy’s ruby slippers, Captain Ahab with killing a whale named Moby Dick, or recall Quasimodo’s unrequited love for Esmerelda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and – drumroll! – Wile E. Coyote’s obsession with the Road Runner.
Welcome to the world of leftwing Democrats, so like the world of the Wicked Woke Witch, Ahab, and Wile E. Coyote, caught in their doom loops, only able to get their daily fix of bias from their media bias dealers and walk around in a political stupor, high in hate-hype.
The real question, at this point: How many Democrats can break from the obsession, escape the collective fiction, and restore themselves to normal – and how many will continue on, in Wile E. Coyote mode, trying to stop the Road Runner? Our time is epic, but life is sometimes a cartoon.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC.
RBC,
I did find it so laughable that so many colleges in this country opted to have essentially a “day of crying” for the mentally indoctrinated useful idiots that these colleges and universities have been proudly creating in this country for the last half century. That our K through 12th grade are also busy churning out as fast as they can. Yet another example to the rest of the world, including our enemies, of what the future of America may be led by in the not-too-distant future. Think for a second how people like Putin, Xi, the Supreme Ayatollah of Iran and Little Rocket Man must have been smiling and laughing at the so-called “future of America” needing to have a day of coloring books and milk and cookies to console themselves because the anointed Socialist Democrat puppet lost.
If that isn’t something that gives our enemies a morale boost and our allies real pause, I don’t know what is. If this is how “the future of America” handles not getting their way and losing an election, what do you think these same “adults”, as you call them, would do if faced with a significantly greater, life-changing challenge or threat from forces meaning to do them real harm? That’s a rhetorical question, as I think we both know how they would react, and it would be both disgraceful and pathetic at the same time.
The idea of offering up coloring books, milk and cookies, and so-called “safe spaces” in which to have a good cry hardly conveys the image of so-called young adults. It does however convey an image of exactly what the Left in this country has been working so hard to create for decades, in order to grease the skids for the type of society that they ultimately want to rule over. A mentally enfeebled population of easily manageable people, who are blindly aligned to the Marxist ideology that they have been conditioned to accept as the only acceptable form of governance.
RBC, I chuckled with your article today. The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote was my father’s favorite cartoon. You blended reality of our nation’s condition nicely. Bravo. Can the people break out of their Wile E. Coyote mentality remains to be seen but it is still early. As discussed before the road will be bumpy.
Have a good weekend.
To the dems: Beep Beep!
Get outta the way!
Democrats are the oarty of fringe when they vehemently embrace policies over 60% ofvAmerica is against! Women’s sports, women’s privacy issues, CRT/DEI, drag queen story hours, open borders, climate change funding,… the list goes on and on. Add to that, if the Democrats are “the Coyote”, ACME is a product bought from China!
“deny democracy, deny democracy……” Oh, how I tire of that term. Mao loved it and constantly encouraged his followers to work for “the democratic revolution”. Democracy is the majority rule of the people and not rule of law (a republic). Once the communists achieve a majority…they rule. They achieved it by subterfuge in 2020 and could have pulled it off in 2024. Both Harris and her parents traveled with communists and their philosophy their entire lives. The Republic ducked a boulder on the head.
Cartoons can be a great way to communicate. There is often a form of symbolism possible with cartoons that is something that stimulates certain ways of thinking and appeals to the memory . What was mentioned about college students being guided toward weakness , instead of being guided toward strength, courage and wisdom — something that should be corrected And it was good to mention how they compare to those who participated in world war two ( when strength, courage and wisdom were vital to survival). The idea of respect for rules, history and law needs to be built into the framework ,the foundation for people of that age. In the 1970’s I did mechanical work on ships for two years ( as a civilian). it was great experience The idea of doing things with a sense of responsibility and sense of purpose ,was developed . ” Our time is epic but sometimes life is a cartoon . “. That sure enough is true. The. respect for what is normal, those qualities that will show people how to make adjustments to the series of adjustments that make up a large part of life that is what is needed by those who are unable to understand that at present. .Well done ,RBC. !
I’m hearing the theme song from that cartoon in my head…probably all day now! Love the article!! I’m 66 with two younger siblings, who spent many hours watching TV cartoons. Isn’t it sad that we’ve now raised two generations of snowflakes, so susceptible to brainwashing from the left that they can truly believe they are right and the other side is wrong. Such a diverse “coalition” of voters elected DJT, thank goodness, but the left is, of course, ignoring that. All I can hope is that the PROOF of their vote is on the way with a streamlined government and daylighting of all the wasteful spending that has been going on. I suspect there will be a LOT of really angry voters coming out of this and hopefully the midterms in 2026 will see even more voters leaving the Dem party.
This article prompts some questions about peoples’ formative years. How many young adults are familiar with Wile E. Coyote? What has influenced young adults’ values and consequences of wrong choices?
Seems to me there was more effective influence of right and wrong choices in the form of Saturday morning cartoons when they were shown on free television. Good choices were rewarded. Wrong choices, like Wile E. Coyote’s, were severely punished by physical pain and embarrassment. Unfortunately, cartoons like Road Runner, Mighty Mouse (my favorite) and others were deemed too violent for free television. I believe the replacement programming is less entertaining and less effective portraying the consequences of wrong choices.
BTW, I don’t remember children trying to copy Wile E. Coyote’s “violence.”
Our current generation is made up of voiding out, Religion, Respect, Kindness, Gratitude, Truths. There is not any Tradition to remind them of what they can gain from these values. The books, TV, movies, social media have ruined all that could have been gained from attributes. Road Runner is always trying to get out of the way to save himself. Our Current Government is the Coyote.
I can still envision Wiley Coyote looking at the camera as he helplessly falls backward over a cliff after one of his failed attempts to catch the Roadrunner. As for the snowflakes and Democrats returning to normal, this will not happen. They don’t want to return to normal. They wake up each morning looking for something to trigger them into a meltdown. I am happy to announce the uptick in liberal crybaby tantrums for the next four years as Trump makes America great again!
“Meep-meep!” says the roadrunner as he speeds away. Well written, Charles! Even as I’m rejoicing, having fun doing the Trump dance, and exalting in our wins, I keep up an intense prayer fight for the mentally ill in this country that the radical left have brainwashed. There is great hope for them – on college campuses right now, Christianity is spreading through campus gatherings and kids reaching out to kids through Bible studies and prayer meetings.The church calls it revival, and it’s spreading. The Lord Jesus’s love will set these kids free! You’ll never hear about this through the mainstream media. If you want to learn more about this rising revival, check out the Victory Channel on Youtube, or the Christian Broadcasting Network.
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the correct totals
harris 1782860
trump 1570242
the incorrect totals after the illegal switching
trump 1770242
harris 1582860
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One of my all time favorite cartoons :). You did miss one salient point. Wile E. Coyote often referred to himself as “genius”. He’s an elitist, just like many on the left. He’s overconfident in his own intelligence and his ability to arrange reality to his liking — only to have reality keep biting him in the backside. He never seemed to ask himself the question “What could go wrong with my idea?” — just like the Left. The Roadrunner on the other hand was literally bird-brained (in the cartoons he wasn’t particularly stupid, but not particularly smart or educated either). The Roadrunner won because he stuck to what he knew and what he did well. You don’t see him building all kinds of contraptions to protect himself from Wile E. Coyote.