The American Nightmare Five Weeks In.

I have been writing about this phenomenon for the past 18 months. At first it was all lighthearted and almost whimsical, but then when I started to see what was actually happening I became very concerned for the heath and well being of a country that I grew up right next door to, and have, sometimes grudgingly, respected for most of my life.
But things have changed and America finds itself moving toward fascism at a pretty fast clip. So now I am writing more as a warning and as support for the resistance which is growing stronger and strong every day.
You could say I don’t have a dog in this fight so why should I care. But I say that it’s naive in the extreme to think that anything that happens to your country’s largest trading partner will not affect your country and your neighbours and your investments and your quality of life.

I have to admit that in my lifetime I have never seen so much hate flow from an individual as I have seen from the 45th President of The Disunited States of America.
A narcissism that I used to think bordered on pure eccentricity and ego has now gone well past and into full blown psychosis.
I believe that it was the election that has empowered him. He said it himself a number of times and then proved that he could say the craziest things and now put into effect the most insane legislation and nobody would raise enough of an objection to shut him up or turn it over.
Oddly enough there is method in his madness. But sadly for the people of America, it a method he has learned from the likes of Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin, both of whom were also insane narcissists.
This method is actually quite simple. Bombard people with lies. Accuse the people who are telling the truth of lying. Repeat. And repeat. And repeat.
Very soon the people become completely confused and will not really know what to believe, and so the majority of them will bow to authority. Agent Orange must be right because he’s the president.
This form of brainwashing is going on all over the world these days. Because there is not shortage of petty dictators. The odd thing is that it’s actually happening in the United States.

Things Have Changed

The United States is supposed to be the most advanced country in the world, intellectually, economically etc. It’s also supposed to be one of the most democratic countries in the world.
But as we have all seen over the past year and a half, that’s really all bullshit. Almost half the people in America are stupid and or ignorant and or homophobic and or Islamaphobic and or convinced that America is a land for white people only and or just plain gullible enough to believe what they hear from el Presidente.
Up until he came along and gave these people permission to act on every prejudice they have in their heads, the incidence of all of the aforementioned was manageable, although just barely so.
But after he started spreading lies, attacking the media and basically sanctioning violence against people who are different from white America, a great number of these morons took that as permission to go with their guts and act out their prejudices.
Quite a few of these people were cops. A few more were unhinged Americans, a few were Muslim extremists or Muslim extremist wannabees and a few more were just plain nuts and would have done what they did anyway.
But none of them, not a single one, was acting on orders from any terrorist group on this planet.
Of course you would never know that listening to el Presidente To him, all this violence was laid right at the feet of Islam.
And now he is running the show, and every day, the vocal opposition to him builds. It is a constant thing. And recently, it’s started to have an effect on his credibility and approval ratings, which are now lower than any president in the history of the country.
This constantly building opposition feeds off two things. 1. The slow awakening and vote remorse of the people who voted for Trump but who are not part of his core constituency, and 2. The media, who, despite all attempts by Trump to re-position them, are still trusted by a great number of people.

Fearless Forecast

Someone, in a discussion on Charlie Rose yesterday,  postulated that the people can only go on for so long, listening to his constant lies and having him in their face 24/7. They will, probably sooner as opposed to later, reach a critical mass.
At this point, everything that he is saying will sound more or less the opposite of the way it sounds to them now. They will find it disgusting instead of refreshing and honest. They will come to see his face and macabre mask hiding a huge walk-in closet full of nasty skeletons. Because he has many.
When the people turn that corner..when they recapture the perspective they have been intellectually bullied into losing…when they start seeing reality for what it is, and feeling the effects of all the facist behavior that is currently being exhibited and passed off as making America great again, this is when life for El Presidente will become incredibly difficult, if not impossible.
And once the people turn against him, the congress and senate will follow, because these are the same people who, in less than two years will be running for election again. And we all know what that means.
This isn’t a prediction. Because I can’t see the future any more clearly than the next guy. But what I can see is somebody in the process of political suicide, simply because he has been enslaved by his own ego and whatever mental illness he is suffering from that has made him so chronically narcissistic.
At some point, and hopefully soon, the politicians will find it more beneficial to their own interests (ie their jobs) to get rid of him, and perhaps the lion’s share of his administration. And that will be that.
Not surprisingly the leaders of this movement will end up being the people who support him the most vigorously right now.
Paradox is alive and well in America.

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