Whoa, wake me up. I am having this
horrible very realistic nightmare. Donald Trump has been
elected
President of the
United States.
What in the
crying in the fuck just happened? How could 60,371,182 people be so
incredibly heads-up-their-asses fucking gullible? Why the mass
disaffection with and from reality? The economic numbers (GDP growing
/ unemployment down) with things way better than what Romney promised
in the heat of the 2012 campaign. Inflation is non-existent. Stock market
is up. The real estate market has recovered. The US economy is doing
way better than Europe's or Japan's. In fact the US is a rare bright
spot globally. But I guess these 60,371,182 stupid shits don't care
for facts they prefer the Trumpian/GOP faux dystopia. The pat answer is
that the white working class is pissed and are not taking it anymore.
They want their semi-skilled decent paying (but boring) factory jobs
back and did see not it coming by way of a continuation of
Obamanomics. And those are the ones that swung the election.. But what about
the rest of the Trumpians who are doing OK, thank you, and making well
over $60k a year? The answer is they are all plugged into the three
Big Lie machines: Fox News, right wing talk radio and the Briebart/
Drudge conspiracy bullshit spewing blogosphere. Tell me again how the
Internet was going to be a force for progressive change.
The trouble
with the First Amendment and the (necessary) free press that it
supports is that the free speech also allows the freedom to spew out
boldface lies and un-provable assertions, and go as far from reality
as gullible followers will tolerate – and that's a long ways, just
look at organized religion. We are way beyond the quaint old
printed word of our Constitutional architect's day. Now with
electronic media lip readers and functional illiterates can be fed
lies, fact-spun propaganda and hate speech - almost instantly. Our
new President knows this well with his perchance for Twittering out
provocative crap to roil (or placate) his 60 million dupes.
I had hoped once the full gravity of
President-elect Trumps situation sunk in and the byzantine complexity
of the nuts and bolts of implementing his wide array of wild
promises, that a new sober presidential Donald Trump would start to
emerge.That has not happened yet. On 60
Minutes last night it was same old orange haired ogre.
Without a hapless opponent to demean and vilify he had nothing significant to say other than repeat his usual overused superlatives
and hackneys adjectives- such as “terrific” and say former vilified
foes (like Barack Obama) have now suddenly become “nice people”.
His limited vocabulary and lack of intellectual depth makes George W.
Bush look like Winston Churchill. How did sixty million people who
see such a lightweight as their political messiah?
On 60 Minutes and in his meeting with Obama, Trump seemed seemed stressed and uncomfortable. He
didn't seem that happy for a guy who just won the election for
“president of the world”. He knows he is out of his depth. I
think he loved the rock star limelight and the fun of egging on his adoring fans
by promising them the sun, moon and stars. Now that the brutal
complexity of each and every issue that he hammered the ineptness of
the establishment on is dawning on him, he is saying whoa, wait a
minute. He must be realizing after his Herculean effort and masses of
money spent that he has stepped into some real heavy shit. As others have
said he does not seem to have the temperament for the job. Will he
grow into it? My feeling is the radical right in the Republican
Party (which is all of 'em) will take over. If he has any integrity and tries to stick with
all his contradictory but difficult if not impossible to fulfill promises he will have
to confront key GOP ultra neoliberal ideologues like Paul
Ryan, if he doesn't his base will turn on him.
In all honesty I don't have a clue as to what
is going to happen. No one does. Hold on to your hats, folks, it
will be quite a ride.
