Everyone Wants Trump. I mean EVERYONE.
The Comfort Class is Running Scared
Comedy and tragedy mirror each other. In comedy, everything goes wrong for our hero but we know it won’t kill him. In tragedy, we know it will.
For similar reasons, assume that the Democrats and Republicans are mirror opposites of each other.
Despite his histrionics, Trump is a blank slate. Socially deaf. A focus of a heart that is a lonely hunter. One can see him as the hero in one’s war with the deep state, or as the villain in one’s desire to see democratic institutions working together for the common good.
He’s everyone’s useful idiot perfected.
The United States has become divided into two main classes. (There are others but they’ve been marginalized). The first class is anyone who owns property AND generates income, either through investments or work. Let’s call them the comfort class.
The second class either doesn’t own property, or what they own they risk losing because their income is not keeping up with expenses. The struggling class.
I understand that income- and wealth-inequality seem like stale news. The good news is they will even out. The bad news is that its never happened in history without most of the world’s population hiding in their homes.
Everyone gets this. Everyone. You don’t need to be a student of history. You only need to look around you and recognize that most wealth was created in living memory — from your great grandparents’ generation forward.
You can’t take it when you go, as they say. Every single wealthy person living 100 years ago is gone. Sure, there are many who inherit wealth, but it dissipates and new generations become geniuses at defrauding (haha) the silver-spoon progeny of the wealthy.
Sorry to be crass. For time immemorial, if you can’t steal it and protect it you can’t keep it. Inheritance only give you custody of something everyone else will do their darndest to “borrow”.
War to me isn’t politics by other means, its wealth protection by other means.
Do you believe Americans entered World War I or II because we wanted to save Europe? If so, why didn’t we jump in at the beginning? Why did we wait?
When the U.S. enters a ground war in the next 5 years (I expect) do you believe it will do so because it is saving Europe or protecting “freedom”?
Or will you see the poor sent off to war. The greatest “game” one can follow, given to the struggling and disgruntled above, to keep their unemployed kids from vandalizing everyone’s stuff? Instead, they will root for our team. Go America! Teach those sub-humans a lesson! The enemy is over there!
I am not a conspiracist. None of that is planned. It is the natural denouement of every society that tries to perfect its values, find happiness for all. Do civilizations fail from greed, lack of Godliness, poor weather, I have no idea.
Returning to Trump. Instinctively, the comfort class recognizes that the more Trump carries on the more we’re distracted from our cultural dead-end. The bombing of children, the violence, the dual sickening of us through food and drugs, our lost children, the inequality, the nasty politics.
The only thing both Democrats and Republicans agree on in Congress, Senate and Presidential Office is that the military budget must be increased. They should work from home.
Let’s elect the devil we know. After all, with his tax cuts, was he so bad? He didn’t get us into a war (though he set the grounds for it — never mind). Let’s get him into office so the Fed can lower interest rates again.
The Republicans will try to get him focused on rooting out the deep state. The Democrats will get themselves elected by hysterically warning of the Nazi-America Trump is building.
Day to day, the comfort class will get back to house-flipping, football and business. We can watch our kids on TV, in foreign lands, fighting evil, wondering, if this is the time in history, when there is nothing to come home to.
PS: If we can’t have Trump the status-quo Biden will do. Also, I won’t vote for Trump. This essay is tries to explain what was behind the liberal media getting behind Trump instead of Haley after the NH primary. This is some deep psychological / sociological…bs? As always, just trying to connect some dots. I don’t believe either Trump or Biden will end up President. Who will?