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In reply to the discussion: A Wasted Presidency [View all]Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)waste - for the country. Though I mean it in the lay waste kind of way.
Trump is destruction. His very nature. His character. His very being.
Trump has no guiding principles. He has no strong beliefs.
Other than Trump. Other than himself. He is his own and only reason for everything he does. What he can get out of it. How it benefits him.
Trump, his conservative support from high profile names, as well as his sycophantic followers are parts of a symbiotic whole. Through mutualism, each part benefits in some way, though the followers are more like the effluvium by-product of the other two.
Trump courts them but he would never allow them inside his home.
The conservative power brokers/rightwing religious money movers/thought shapers need their votes but they don't want them coming into their homes either.
Both Trump and the conservative power base feed the clamoring crowd their much craved sugar water of absolution. Absolving both the conservative collective and the individual of responsibility for economic and social deprivations by placing the blame on the other.
With appeals to prejudice and fear that keep people ignorant, that keeps them cheering their own oppression,
Trump and the Republican power structure perform a neverending sleight of hand - constant deceptions.
Convincing them that three and four jobs is patriotic and that America has the best health care in the world, even if they don't have access to it. The important thing is getting to chant "We're number 1" until that good feeling takes hold.
Deception after deception, chewing their supporters up until nothing is left of them but pavlovian responses.
This is what we are up against. Fellow citizens who have been conditioned to accept any brutality, any atrocity, to believe any absurdity as long as they get to feel good about themselves.