TRUMP and Surrealism in Every Day Life
"Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were -cheering ·as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering." -- Donald Trump (Insane Clown President, Taibbi)
As we all knew even as he doubled down on it this Muslim's celebrating in the streets of New Jersey on the day the Twin Towers fell was yet another outrageous lie by then candidate for President, Donald Trump. Trumps constant flow of lies has grown so great that Dave Leonhard of the New York Times had to publish a reference sheet to document them.
Republican apologists reactions range from shrugs to full throated support for virtually anything Trump states or does. Meanwhile Democrats, leftists and so-called Progressives engage in almost couch session analysis of what the Democrats did and are doing wrong; who are Trumps supporters? Why can't they see the cynical lies, the outright corruption, and collusion with the Russians to blindside the Democratic Process?
Louis Lapham had this to say in his recent Quarterly on the topic of Fear;
The war on terror brought up to combat strength the nation's ample reserves of xenophobic paranoia, the American people told to live in fear-suspect your neighbor and watch the sky; buy duct tape, avoid the Washington Monument, hide the children. Given enough time and trouble over the last sixteen years, their collective fear and loathing collected into the cesspool from which Donald J. Trump emerged, in January of 2017, to become the president of the United States. (Lapham's Quarterly - Fear -- Lapham)
There is no end to great thinking and analysis like Lapham's or any number of great commentators on how and why we are where we are. For what it's worth I suggest we are looking largely at the fruition of two ends of a deslusional right wing world. On top is Plutarchy (the melding of oligarchy and theocracy and sociopathic greed) that serves th consolidation of uber-rich capitalist power. On the other end of the scale are what W referred to as the "have nots." The long term unemployed, disenfranchised, rascist, OxyContin riddled white males. They bring the politics of spite and a wrecking ball mentality where destruction of the "gubbamint", elitists and PC will only mean that they have more miserable people joining their suffering. In their single-wide trailer, life of misery they hold tight to the fantasy that somehow they too will become wealthy. It's a death cult powered in large part by acceptance of Millinealist End Times propaganda, bitterness and a fuck it attitude.
Trump for them is an avenging angel who will smite the elitists intellectuals, the socialist do-gooders and those who defile the myth of the Little House on the Prairie. It's a mind space where you don't pay taxes, where you can dump refrigerators and junked cars on your property, where your nearest neighbor is a three hour ride away and you can have a rocket propelled greande launcher over the hearth for protection from the iron fist of the "gubbamint." Trump will bring back the Rust Belt factories, the coal mining, the steel mills, that will mean a new F-150, a new 60" HD TV and plenty of good times.
Regarding us "Progressives", Liberals, Leftists, and realists, it seems we too are waiting for delivery from the forces of neo-liberal, fascists and oligarchs that comprise our collective naightmare.o
We feed ourselves pap in the belief that the cyclical tide of political systems will turn; as though it was an immutable law of the universe. To that I say ask those who had to wait for with the cycle of Hitler or Stalin to reach its apex just how good life was. Just how much destruction can you tolerate while horrible things happen to you and yours while you calmly wait in the assurance that good times are just around the corner.
In the interim I strongly suggest getting a copy of On Tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century by Timothy Snyder which I'll cover in my next blog. It is a book that can play a big role in sparing us all immense suffering in our lives.
As we all knew even as he doubled down on it this Muslim's celebrating in the streets of New Jersey on the day the Twin Towers fell was yet another outrageous lie by then candidate for President, Donald Trump. Trumps constant flow of lies has grown so great that Dave Leonhard of the New York Times had to publish a reference sheet to document them.
Republican apologists reactions range from shrugs to full throated support for virtually anything Trump states or does. Meanwhile Democrats, leftists and so-called Progressives engage in almost couch session analysis of what the Democrats did and are doing wrong; who are Trumps supporters? Why can't they see the cynical lies, the outright corruption, and collusion with the Russians to blindside the Democratic Process?
Louis Lapham had this to say in his recent Quarterly on the topic of Fear;
The war on terror brought up to combat strength the nation's ample reserves of xenophobic paranoia, the American people told to live in fear-suspect your neighbor and watch the sky; buy duct tape, avoid the Washington Monument, hide the children. Given enough time and trouble over the last sixteen years, their collective fear and loathing collected into the cesspool from which Donald J. Trump emerged, in January of 2017, to become the president of the United States. (Lapham's Quarterly - Fear -- Lapham)
There is no end to great thinking and analysis like Lapham's or any number of great commentators on how and why we are where we are. For what it's worth I suggest we are looking largely at the fruition of two ends of a deslusional right wing world. On top is Plutarchy (the melding of oligarchy and theocracy and sociopathic greed) that serves th consolidation of uber-rich capitalist power. On the other end of the scale are what W referred to as the "have nots." The long term unemployed, disenfranchised, rascist, OxyContin riddled white males. They bring the politics of spite and a wrecking ball mentality where destruction of the "gubbamint", elitists and PC will only mean that they have more miserable people joining their suffering. In their single-wide trailer, life of misery they hold tight to the fantasy that somehow they too will become wealthy. It's a death cult powered in large part by acceptance of Millinealist End Times propaganda, bitterness and a fuck it attitude.
Trump for them is an avenging angel who will smite the elitists intellectuals, the socialist do-gooders and those who defile the myth of the Little House on the Prairie. It's a mind space where you don't pay taxes, where you can dump refrigerators and junked cars on your property, where your nearest neighbor is a three hour ride away and you can have a rocket propelled greande launcher over the hearth for protection from the iron fist of the "gubbamint." Trump will bring back the Rust Belt factories, the coal mining, the steel mills, that will mean a new F-150, a new 60" HD TV and plenty of good times.
Regarding us "Progressives", Liberals, Leftists, and realists, it seems we too are waiting for delivery from the forces of neo-liberal, fascists and oligarchs that comprise our collective naightmare.o
We feed ourselves pap in the belief that the cyclical tide of political systems will turn; as though it was an immutable law of the universe. To that I say ask those who had to wait for with the cycle of Hitler or Stalin to reach its apex just how good life was. Just how much destruction can you tolerate while horrible things happen to you and yours while you calmly wait in the assurance that good times are just around the corner.
In the interim I strongly suggest getting a copy of On Tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century by Timothy Snyder which I'll cover in my next blog. It is a book that can play a big role in sparing us all immense suffering in our lives.
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