AMERICAN ALPTRAUM - PART 2
THE POWER OF TRUMP
AMERICAN ALPTRAUM - PART 3
The power of Trump is a curious thing,
Make a one man
cringe, and another man grin,
Gets attacked by
an Eagle in a political stunt,
More than bigotry
that’s the power of Trump.
Brave as rodent, with a beady insane stare.
Cruel and vindictive, like a good girl’s nightmare,
Make a good one sad make a wrong one worse,
Power of Trump makes society go in reverse.
He’s got money, he’s got fame,
He’s got supporters that share one brain.
It’s oppressive and dishonest, and nasty at all times,
There’s no doubt he’ll ruin your life,
That’s the power of Trump.
Politics is a strange thing. It combines people with different
opinions and attitudes about the way society should function, and allows those
people to convince themselves that someone else represents the ideologies in
which they believe. But human society is like one big dysfunctional family. You
can divide the members into two basic groups: the givers, and the takers. The
givers adopt a moral and ethical code based on the principle of “I think,
therefore I am”. They will dedicate their lives to contributing toward the
betterment of their community and the world we all must share in whatever way
they can without causing deliberate or avoidable harm to others. The takers
live by a very different ethos: “I want, therefore I take.” They changed the
moral of The Tortoise and The Hare from “slow and steady wins the race” to “you
snooze, you lose”.
Nowhere did this become more apparent than in
the 2016 US Presidential Election, where Donald Trump was putting the ‘fun’
back into ‘dysfunctional’. In Australia, we were shocked by the hypocrisy,
incompetence, corruption, and blatant dishonesty of the right-wing LNP that
formed the dominant party in government leading up to the Federal election
here. Their refusal to provide access to evidence to support their claims of
massive debt and mismanagement by the previous ALP controlled government was
disturbing, but when evidence emerged that the LNP had not only lied, but
actually made what debt and social service failures there were even worse, those
who had paid attention were horrified. The LNP continued to spread the lies and
convinced enough sycophants to vote them back into office, albeit at a great
cost to their once overwhelming majority.
What made the situation here so shocking was
that despite the reality, most voters don’t understand politics, the issues, or
the facts. So the LNP retained power (albeit, by only a single seat) even
though, in reality, less than half the voters actually wanted them in office at
all. The remaining votes were divided between the parties in the middle-ground occupied
by the ALP, the left-wing Greens, and several minor parties including the right-wing
Nationalist-Psychopathic Pauline Hanson party campaigning on a platform of
racist, homophobic, bigotry that appealed to those with a limited intellect and
motivated by their self-centred desires. It was no surprise that most of these
were disenfranchised former LNP bobble-heads, or that they would align
themselves with the LNP.
But what really made this situation
disturbing is that Australia’s wake-up call to the fundamental flaws that
result from stripping funding from good quality public education and mental
health services is the very dark reflection of a world across the pond. The US,
in the middle of escalating tensions with the Middle East, Russia and China,
apparently decided to get Samsung to run their Presidential Election, whittling
down a field of incompetents to the two best of the worst and then burning down
what little remained of their country’s reputation as leaders of modern Western
democracy, the free world and champions of equality, justice, freedom and
liberty.
Hillary Clinton was, clearly, the only
candidate both qualified and capable of actually doing the job, but a series of
incidents while she served in the Obama administration had left her reputation
– and the trust the public placed in her – severely damaged. It wasn’t helped
by the leaks, fabrications, and perceptions of an already disillusioned
population. Nor the efforts of those in the FBI breaking with protocol to
spread more mistrust with misleading reports designed to cripple her election
winning lead. The last man standing in the Republican camp was Donald Trump,
pin-up model for Psychotics and Sociopaths Monthly. He made Clinton look like a
Saint. Not only was he unqualified and incapable of undertaking the role of
President, he was completely unsuitable.
The voters, like all citizens of Western
societies, are concerned about key issues that have eroded the ideologies of
what comprises their communities. They are concerned about the wage disparity
that has reduced the middle classes to a similar state as the lower classes,
and elevated the wealthy to such lofty heights that it has returned society to a
Feudal System of ruling-, working- and under-classes. While the vast majority
struggle to survive day to day, a tiny minority live in such parasitic opulence
that they not only never have to worry about money, but feel compelled to
inflict their ignorance on the disadvantaged, blaming and lecturing their
victims.
The true scale of the horror of this
collective nightmare can only be appreciated when the evidence is considered,
and it begins with the fact that people in the US are concerned about the
shifting nature of their class system, an indicator of just how bad the
situation has become. The key ideologies of the US are equality, justice,
freedom and liberty. The presence of a class system defies equality. Its nature
reduces legal outcomes to a commodity where laws, policies and procedures can
be used to circumvent justice. Class creates a socio-economic chasm in which
the most disadvantage suffer a lifetime of indentured servitude in order to
simply survive.
In the US, the American Dream in unobtainable
for the vast majority of its citizens. It is a situation reflected in every
other Western society. There is very little social mobility because it is
impossible for most people to access opportunity and obtain enough funds move
up in society to a higher class. And this is where the rot sets in. Western
society has become stagnant, festering, where an entrenched culture of corruption
flourishes in the light as often as dark places because of the failure of two
additional ideologies, off-shoots of the primary four: meritocracy and
accountability. The sad reality is this – the American Dream is dead, if it
ever existed at all.
The absence of equality has ensured nepotism
and the ability to avoid responsibility are present in every aspect of US and
other Western societies. The public and private sectors both use the policy of
‘internal investigation’ to isolate and silence victims while concealing and
enabling predators, crime, systemic failure, and injustice. It is a conflict of
interest, and made all worse by the fact there is no way of knowing how many
victims of crime, whistle-blowers, and witnesses have been prevented by the
authorities from making an official statement.
Imagine if we adopted this process for those
accused of murder, rape, child abuse, domestic violence, fraud and other
serious crimes. Imagine if they were asked to conduct an ‘internal
investigation’ into the ‘allegations’ that are made against them, to decide if
it had enough merit to forward on to the authorities. Imagine if the
authorities were the perpetrators. We don’t need to imagine because we have
seen answers to those questions in the inquests into child abuse in religious
institutions, where the Terms of Reference prevent investigation of police and
public service failures. The findings recommended an end to the practice of ‘internal
investigation’ because it was being used to cover-up evil, and yet the very
same practice continues to be used in private business and public services.
This inequality and entrenched culture of
corruption lies at the heart of the anger voters have toward so-called
political representatives. The systemic failure and brutal injustices. The
sheer hopelessness. The knowledge that there will never be any positive change.
The chilling fact that we do not live in a Capitalist Democracy. We live under
the rule of Plutocratic Fascism. That may have eluded most people, but the
masses are well aware that our ruling classes are insulated from reality by
their wealth and circumstances. They have begun to question why rich people
believe they have the right to make decisions that affect the majority when
they could not possibly hope to understand disadvantage, and have no humility
or empathy for the victims.
And this is what Donald Trump manipulates. He
preys upon the ignorance of lack-wits and wilful stupidity of idiots. He does
not “tell it like it is”. He spreads malicious lies based on half-truths to
tell some people what they want to hear. He relies upon the self-centred,
narcissistic, sociopathic attitudes of his mindless minions, the same things
that form his own psychotic personality. His camp followers will tolerate and
even support things he says even as they are outraged if anybody said that
about him. Hillary Clinton referred to half of Trump supporters as being in the
“basket of deplorable”, and they took offence. Unpack what she said, and the
only reason they took offence is because those people don’t like to hear the
truth. Bigots, racists, violent and vindictive people filled with hate that
blame their victims and threaten others to get what they want are deplorable.
Consider the campaign and the shocking truth
becomes abundantly clear. Trump is a psychopath and his most zealous, fanatical
supporters are a collective of the same or sociopaths. They meet all the hallmarks.
Psychopaths have lifelong patterns of deceitfulness for personal gain. They are
delusional, living in a fantasy world where reality and fact have no place.
They use disassociation to justify what they do, and rationalise away how they
hurt and mistreat others. They lack remorse and empathy. They project their own
flaws on others and will make out their victims, and anybody that dares
challenge or attempt to expose them, are crazy. They accuse their victims of
being psychotic, or sociopaths, to conceal their own sick and twisted behaviours,
and even claim to be victims while they lash out, their actions eventually
revealing the truth. They are hypocrites.
Donald Trump is the ultimate example. He has superficial charm. He is untruthful,
manipulative and egocentric. He is devoid of remorse or empathy, and seeks to
dominate and win at all costs. He never apologises, and when he claims he is,
it’s really just another attack. He is an expert at creating and telling
fictional stories with emotive rhetoric, appearing to display emotions like
empathy but doesn’t really feel it. He presents himself as a hero with the
highest of morals and a supporting philosophy. He incites emotional chaos and
feigns empathy, like or love to get what he wants. He even plays the victim
while he inflicts on others what he accuses them of doing to him. He is the
ultimate hypocrite. Worse, he can call on a huge number of like-minded toadies
for support.
According to Trump, Hillary is a liar, a
psychopath, a hate-filled ‘nasty’ woman, ‘crooked’, a criminal who should go to
prison and all manner of other horrible allegations that are clearly
projection. In one of his infamous ‘tweets’ he accused Clinton of taking bribes
to do favours for regimes that enslaved women and murdered gays. Talk about the
pot calling the kettle orange. Trump himself plans to side with Russia and the
Assad regime to help murder women and children in Syria, an act that will
impose the very same things he accused Clinton of doing. But Trump and his merry
band of idiots appear oblivious to their hypocrisy and projection. Trump has also
incited his supporters to inflict violence on anybody that dares disagree with
his hypocritical, ranting tirades while accusing others of violating his right
to free speech, insisting his rivals are trying to stop him from speaking the
truth. His support base is comprised of mostly white, middle-aged bigots with
limited educations and equally constrained intellects. Some of them are even
white supremacists and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
When the opinion polls indicated voters were
clearly unwilling to support his ignorant, dishonest opinions, he claimed every
one of the State Electoral offices was colluding to rig the ballot and make
sure he didn’t win. He indicated he would refuse to accept the result if he lost,
an act that guaranteed his most fanatical extremists could well unleash
violence to get what they wanted rather than accept they are an unhinged
minority. But his threat to refuse to accept a loss strayed perilously close to
treason, and violated the very nature of democracy. Trump may as well have
simply declared himself the dictator-king instead of bothering with democratic
elections at all. In one of his frequent, delusional tweets, he effectively did.
This is not something anybody wants in
office, especially if it has access to nuclear weaponry. So how was it he succeeded?
Well, you could blame the Republican Party for dropping the ball and failing to
represent their real supporters, all the good people who want to affect
positive change, albeit from a misguided approach that too often leads to
horrific consequences. But, ultimately, the death of what the US claimed to be was
the result of a thousand cuts, and all boiled down to a lack of foresight.
There are no policies in place to psychologically screen candidates and kick
them to the curb when they prove so unhinged they shouldn’t be out in public.
Then there is the impact of neoliberalism that led to a lack of good quality
public education and mental health services to help weed out flawed people and
implement corrective therapies to help them function in civilised society.
But why is it that the most fanatical Trump
supporters not only fail to see reason and accept facts, but insist on going to
social media sites to bully anybody that disagrees with their delusional
version of reality, inflicting their own vile campaigns of hate and
misinformation? Well, it’s no different to extremist religious propaganda. Many
psychopaths and sociopaths will try to force their fascism on others to get
what they want. We’ve seen it all before with the rise and fall of Nationalism
and Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Somewhere, someone is using Godwin’s Law to
claim I just lost all credibility in this topic by mentioning Adolf Hitler. I maintain
that they just lost it by making that idiotic comment. If we refuse to accept
and consider history, we cannot learn from it. Those who fail to learn from
history are doomed to repeat it, and damn those upon whom they inflict
themselves. Maybe people should actually study history and see what happens
when despots rise to power using fascism. If things keep going the way they
are, we’re all about to relive it. As long as the most ignorant, morally and
ethically bankrupt members of our society hold power, they will inevitably
create and maintain an entrenched culture of corruption in our public services
and communities.
Trump supporters are liars, racists and
misogynists, and some of them, I assume, are good people. You find that
offensive? Imagine how immigrants feel then. Seriously, have a look at the
things Trump has said. He claimed immigrants are rapists, thieves and
murderers. By default, his statement includes the women and children. He wanted
to deport eleven million people over a two year period (that would have been
over fifteen thousand a day!) who may have worked and paid taxes in the US, or
even been born there to illegal immigrants. That’s almost 3.5% of the population.
He’s since back-peddled on that promise to three million. But where will they
go? Many of them have spent their entire lives in the US and are not citizens
of another country.
How will it help? The excess supply of labour
resulting from their absence won’t really reduce unemployment rates because
their absence will cause a flow-on effect on demand. Those people, too, are
consumers. What will happen to the value of homes and land when there is
suddenly an excess of probably State seized dwellings and property? What will
happen to interest rates as greedy opportunists move in to purchase all that
cheap property? What will happen to the domestic economy? Who stands to benefit
most? Obviously, the wealthy. A billionaire developer by the name of Trump
being amongst the most likely candidates.
Trump has demanded a freeze on Moslems
entering the US, and wants those already there to be registered. Why not on
Christians and members of the KKK who are just as likely (if not more so) to
inflict violence and terrorist actions. His attitudes toward black people, Hispanics,
women, the socio-economically disadvantaged (regardless of their circumstance),
and anyone who doesn’t support him, are not much better. It sounds a lot like
tattooing numbers on the arms of certain people and detaining them in labour
camps. The rhetoric to build a wall and increase border ‘security’ in order to
keep out people he blames for the socio-economic woes of the US doesn’t help.
It feeds into the existing lie as ‘evidence’ or ‘proof’ of an accusation or problem.
Trump and his die-hard fanatics insist he was
misquoted. That isn’t completely wrong. Some sources do misuse what he said,
but the fact is he did say this. He said it to spread fear and tell bigots (who
have been raised on and brainwashed with a daily diet of extreme right-wing
media paranoia and misinformation) what they wanted to hear. In all the fun and
excitement he deliberately concealed the human face of migrants. He reduced the
majority of immigrants to a minority by saying “some I assume are good people.”
He assumed. He has no idea about any of it. The US has a huge military force and
budget. It is, arguably, the most technologically advanced country in the
world. Women and kids desperate to find (and work hard for) a better life see
the ideologies of the US as hope. How are they a threat? Sounds like they have
more of what it takes to be a US citizen than Trump and his worst bobble-heads
and human bollards, the kind of people that impede human progress.
Not really surprising, though, given Trump’s attitudes. He claims
to represent all the hard-working people of the US and promises to create jobs
and overhaul the US taxation system, but in reality he himself uses cheap
foreign labour and offshore companies rather than employing US citizens, hasn’t
paid any tax on his billions of dollars since 1998, has filed for bankruptcy
four times, owes employees unpaid wages, and underpays others. Think about this
and the fact that he claims his father was a “blue-collar billionaire”, and
doesn’t discourage others from calling him the same. That’s not a thing. His
election promises of spending plans and tax cuts have been analysed by
economists and reveal the US deficit will double under these plans as revenue
dries up.
Trump also
claims women who get abortions are murderers and should be punished, but his
allegations about the most emotive procedures being carried out are false. He
believes women are responsible for getting pregnant and must raise that child
regardless of circumstances under which it was conceived. This taps into the
extreme, right-wing hypocrisy of the worst so-called Christian cults at large
in the US, religious extremism that demands people outside insane cults be
subject to their so-called ‘laws’. We’ve seen how that works out under Islam in
the Middle East. It’s why Western societies separate State laws and the rules
of the many, many religions. It’s why those so-called Christians (of all
denominations) should try reading the Holy Bible and living as it instructs
instead of doing the exact opposite and inflicting that on better people than
themselves.
The irony of these archaic attitudes becomes very apparent when
one considers Trump’s own behaviour toward women. He has bullied and insulted
women, and even boasted of inappropriate behaviours toward them that are
nothing less than sexual assault. There are even reports of allegations he
raped a thirteen-year old girl, supported by a witness. Those are the kind of
violations that can lead to victims having unplanned pregnancies. And despite
his boasts and admissions, any woman that actually confirms his claims or makes
allegations about what he did to them is instantly branded a liar, and punished
with legal action for daring to speak out. Trump claims Muslims are evil, but
his attitudes and behaviour is little better than that of Islamic extremists,
and he himself has had four wives. Yet he has the audacity to accuse Obama of
being a Moslem when he knows that’s a lie.
Then there’s his approach to foreign conflicts. Trump has said
that America should just go into the Middle East and take the oil of another
Nation-State using military force. He has indicated that if he was in charge of
the army, he’d just go into the Middle-East and “bomb the shit out of them”,
apparently unconcerned by the potential harm this may cause to women and
children in those brutal splash zones. He uses the threat of violence to get
what he wants and justifies the murder and maiming of women and children, some
in retaliation because they are the families of suspected terrorists. That’s
terrorism.
Before he was even elected, Trump asked for the US nuclear launch
codes. He declared the US should use its arsenal against populations considered
enemies of US interests. Particularly concerning is what happens to previously
friendly countries that dare to say “no” to this nutjob’s demands, even if it’s
just in regards to unfair trade disputes. An ultimatum is not an opening move
for any negotiation. It puts people on the defensive and escalates tensions.
And it leaves no room for any other course of action, only conflict. Trump
cannot be part of the solution because he is part of the problem.
But instead of seeing this as a negative, his
supporters claimed he was a genius. As already pointed out, they are mostly
angry, middle-class white folk, including members of the KKK. That reveals a
lot about who he is and what he really represents. It gets worse. These
misguided or idiotic folk buy into his projection and refuse to see the
hypocrisy of his actions. When confronted by multiple women claiming he had
sexually assaulted them, Trump did not apologise. Instead, he insulted and
threatened his ‘alleged’ victims and then claimed it was all an opportunistic
lie, part of an elaborate conspiracy, insisting Bill Clinton had done far, far
worse, and the attacks were a sign of desperation by “crooked Hillary”.
He was, of course, referring to the four
female Trump supporters who made allegations (about what Bill Clinton had
supposedly done) during a press conference he tricked the media into attending
under false pretences. That media conference occurred before the other women
came forward about Trump. Trump started it. He ran a smear campaign to
discredit Hillary by holding her accountable for the actions of her husband,
Bill Clinton, who infamously had an extra-marital affair while in office
decades ago.
There’s no evidence to support any of those additional
allegations. If there was, the authorities would have pressed charges. As any
victim of crime like child abuse, domestic violence or rape knows, unless you
can prove what was done, you are treated as a liar. And for daring to come forward,
predators will threaten to sue their victim for ‘defamation’, using the law to
inflict further injustice. There is less evidence to support the allegations
made against Bill Clinton than the ones against Trump. He has been married to
four different women and boasted about groping and trying to seduce others, including
one incident that occurred less than a month into his fourth marriage and
involved a woman married to another man. Trump’s comments could easily be seen
as projection.
Despite evidence to the contrary and some of
the ‘allegations’ being supported by his own boasting, Trump claimed all those
women are liars and will be sued for defamation. It is unclear how that would
work in a Justice System. Trump’s record on honesty is in tatters. He is a
proven liar. His reputation cannot be harmed by their claims because he has
already done the same to himself. But the US doesn’t have a Justice System. It
has a Legal System. A Legal System has nothing to do with justice. It is
designed to sell legal outcomes and make sure the disadvantaged can be isolated
and silenced, and punished to set an example to discourage anybody else that
dares to speak out. It allows creatures like Trump to do as they please and
boast about it with impunity. And now he is President, he will choose the next
Justice of the Supreme Court, effectively controlling the Legal System.
One would think it impossible to claim the
moral high-ground when your behaviour is worse, but Trump does it, and his
sycophants believe every ridiculously embarrassing lie that spews from his
mouth. His 2005 response to criticism of him entering the changing rooms of the
Miss Universe contestants, where he boasted about being a vile old pervert ambushing
naked young women, really does reveal the kind of person he is. “I’m allowed
to… I’m the owner of the pageant… I’m inspecting it.” Heads up: don’t stay in a
Trump owned property, and if you have no choice, then definitely do not get
naked there in case he inspects you too!
Trump also threatened to put Hillary Clinton
in prison if he became President. He claimed she has committed all manner of
evil and is a hate-filled woman on performance enhancing drugs. In all
likelihood, Hillary could be a sociopath, but since it’s the default setting of
most politicians, it’s not really a revelation. Of more concern is what his
allegations actually reveal. Given his use of projection, it speaks volumes
about what he himself is and has been doing. He kept demanding she hand over
all her deleted emails but refused to hand over his Tax Returns, something
every other candidate has had to do.
How does one hand over something that has
been deleted? How can you prove something existed at all before it was
allegedly deleted? Will Trump hand over all of his deleted emails? There is a
great deal of evidence Trump himself has used the law to delay the surrender of
documents involved in fraudulent business dealings and used that time to
destroy them, so his attack on Hillary seems a little hypocritical. And then there’s
his taxes. Despite his tax records being leaked, he still refuses to hand them
over. Every other candidate has had to do that, but not him. He claims the IRS
won’t let him because he is being audited. For the record, the IRS has confirmed
Trump is being audited but officially stated that there is no reason he cannot
reveal his tax records.
And just when he claimed the media was lying
about his poll figures and is rigged against him – they are working together to
make sure he doesn’t win – the figures have seen his support surge and Hillary’s
drop. The most insane of his supporters echoed his ranting tirades and tantrums,
but it simply wasn’t true. The majority of people, according to the polls, and
then the election, didn’t want him to be their President so they weren’t going
to vote for him. The last opinion polls were not just terrifying, they were barely
credible. Nobody wanted to believe people from the US could be so monumentally
idiotic. And yet, assuming the election was not rigged, like Trump said,
evidence clearly indicated enough US voters were, indeed, that wilfully foolish
to get him across the line, even if they were the minority.
In Australia, folks that have been bankrupt or
are so clearly psychotic cannot run for office. If the party considers a
candidate to be off their axel enough to cause serious harm to their brand,
they can ditch them. Why doesn’t the US adopt these same policies? It could
have prevented so much. The reputation of the US has been shot to hell by Trump
and his right-wing nutjobs, and the US itself is deeply – perhaps even
catastrophically – divided and dishonoured. Ancient prophecies the US would
never have another President after Obama may well be true. The US is divided,
and none would be surprised if some States left the Union altogether rather
than remain under the rule of a traitor hell-bent on destroying everything the
US was meant to be.
AMERICAN ALPTRAUM - PART 3
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