Commentary: Please, Jimmy, don’t back down. Making fun of Trump is your patriotic duty
That’s why Jimmy Kimmel is going back, there are people who still don’t know you’re gone.
Hallelujah? Praise to ABC? Free speech victories?
It all depends on the Tuesday night when we see if Kimmel returned or is suppressed. All the results of the recent days, the return of Kimmel, one of the crazy, frightening events, should be a moment when we all watch-a real-time look at how successful our headmaker is to force us to censor ourselves through fear.
Please Jimmy, don’t go back.
If Kimmel now warms the comedy, if the power suffers to make fun of the power, he will send the message that we all have to be afraid of, that we should all be bent. Perhaps it didn’t register for it, but here – a person in the impact position was forced to make a risky choice between security and the country.
It sounds very dramatic, I know, but auto censorship is the heart of authoritarianism. What does this mean to an average person when people are very afraid to break a joke?
If Kimmel cannot withstand this president with its famous, influence and wealth, what chance of the rest?
Patriotism used to be a simple thing. A little apple pie, a flag on July, a flag, maybe even a pride when you play a national anthem, and even if you can’t find your car keys or remember which day it is, all the words enter your mind.
It’s just something there, it’s running in the background – a confirmation of a non -saying that being a American is quite awesome.
Now, of course, patriotism is the most loaded word. The Maga movement was chewed and whisked by the Maga Movement, a white, western dogma, a white, western dogma, which requires a certain oatmeal-darning and angry Christianity to dominate civil life.
There are examples of this destruction recently. Pentagon threatens to punish journalists Reporting information who does not openly. Minister He used social media to ask us atty. Gene. Pam bondi Go after your perceived enemies.
It was Trump’s conversation with Tsar Stephen Miller in the Charlie Kirk monument, which put a knot on my stomach.
“We are storms,” Miller said, A Qanon returns to conspiracy theory About the violent re -ranking of society.
This is uncomfortable, but in fact, it is light compared to what he said in line with a familiar Christian nationalist rent.
Miller, “Our descendants and heritage to Athens, Rome, Philadelphia, Monticello returns,” he said. “Our ancestors built the cities they produced and the art and architecture they built.”
Who will tell him about Sally Hemings? However, this worldview like Kimmel continued with an attack that did not agree with “Yous”.
Miller said, “You are evil, you are jealous, you are jealous, hate, nothing”. “You can’t build anything. You can’t produce anything. You can’t create anything.”
Humor, of course, nothing, so this administration cannot withstand it.
Humor builds Camaraderie. Produces dopamine and serotonin, Adhesive of human bond. It discharges fear and creates hope.
That’s why the autocrats always go quite early after comedians. Not thin skin Although it seems to have Trump. It is the effective management of the opposition.
Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels knew that. In 1939, his party banned five German comedians – Werner Finck, Peter Sachse, Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi, after establishing a cultural room that required all artists to comply with certain rules. Basically, he ended his careers for daring satire against Nazi leaders, claiming that people could not find funny.
“(I) The public appearances showed a lack of positive attitude towards national socialism, and therefore caused a serious problem in the public and especially in party comrades,” New York Times Report The German government then claims.
It sounds familiar.
Kimmel, of course, not the only comedian talking. Jon Stewart has Back to “The Daily Show” Acting as if he was afraid of submitting, maybe a hat for Finck, Famous joke, “I’m not saying anything. And I’m not even saying.”
Stephen Colbert Disney roasted with a very funny parody video. Political cartoonists spend a field day.
And there are many people who push it back. Gov. Gavin Newsom went to every All-Captical Rebutals. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker vocal in oppositionEspecially the national guard troops in Chicago.
The collective power of the power is not a joke. It means something.
However, all sober conversations in the world, dictators’ clay feet can not be a spot excavation when it comes to kicking the feet of clay. Mark Twain said the best: Nothing can stop against the laughter attack. This is what makes Kimmel so relevant right now.
He can go back with a smile – proving that we have nothing to be afraid of – or seriously?
