Trump the Facist in Waiting

Trump is a mad man. I don't mean this in a flippant way, or say it in order to be mildly humorous. He's actually mad. 

If this man comes into power, he will be used and manipulated like a mannequin. If evil could formulate the rising in flesh and blood form of the Devil, Trump would be something along those lines. If not the actual devil a direct conduit.  A mouthpiece. Pull a string here or there and it will obediently do ones will. He has been described as a man child, but is certainly more child than man. Another term is narcissist, which certainly fits. He wants to do anything he likes and not be held to account. 

 For all of his life this has mostly happened. Money is like a vaccine when it comes to jail time. So is influence. He'll never spend a day behind bars no matter how suitable he is. Instead, in a mocking way he colours his skin orange. The big tangerine, prefrontal lobe dementia suffering oaf will carry on. His medical records are kept secret, very much like his qualifications. When he does kick the bucket his family will take over. For he sees them all as one happy crime syndicate. Like his genes the one thing they all want is attention, more money, power and recognition. Narcissists and their narcissist families live for nothing else.

But if anything, his notoriety has come about through fame.  Being on TV and in the public eye gave him the power he has now.  His personality had been seen for decades, as a bigger than life on American TV show The Apprentice show. There he spoke lies of how successful he was and in his bragging won over many a follower.  They root for him, the gullible and ill educated love him, he's the imaginary success they wish they were.  They have become full-blown cult members and know very much how Trump behaves.  He identifies as one of the workers, one of the strivers, but he is not. He has never worked a real day in his life. His power has got so big, he now completely runs the Republicans. There is not a Republican politician who doesn't seek to be on the side of the tangerine. For if they fall out of favour, then they will lose their seat. The floor will collapse and every cent of their wealth will ebb away. It is like the tange has them wrapped around his little finger.  Worse still it is influential blackmail, the entire Republican Party knows this.

Are there any other Republicans left who don't kiss the feet of the Tange? Are there any who recognise this man is not a Republican? He is a con artist who has sold a truck load of snake oil. It's nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. He is a traitor to the Republicans, he is a traitor to America. Many of Trump's supporters don't really have an understanding of what a Fascist is. It's very much like most of America doesn't understand what communism and socialism is. These are words that have a bad rap. But Fascist? It's not even in their dictionary. Will they wake up? Will some of them when they get to the ballot box actually say to themselves I'll just pretend to vote Trump, but really I'm gonna vote Harris?

I came across a concept some time ago. We either all win or all lose, and I've become to think any divided peoples will be like this, losing.  Come the 5th November, it's not just America which will changed if Trump gets in. It is the whole world. As he has said as well. There will never be another election after this one. Some disturbing words. It's not going to be a game, and it certainly will be life or death for many.

Teenage kids and the value of stupid

I am probably old and out of touch with teenage kids nowadays,which is the only explanation feasible due to the way they make me feel.  Over the last week, ever since the school holidays began there's a lot of them about.  Kids in groups, walking about as though they have a hardness gene, which makes them different and untouchable.  Barely out of nappies thinking they are the in thing.  There's a look about them, like a smugness and it makes you feel like getting a baseball bat out and using if for an unintended purpose.  Their behaviour gives the place an awkward feel.  A tension, even though this is perceptual.  Some of them are no doubt bad, most are most probably good.  However, they are all buying into an image and a language.  Yes, a language.  One they hear from music, TV and of a different culture and they adopt it as though it is their language.  It is the new street talk.  It sounds like the ghettos of America.  It is cultural, it relates to a race and group of people who feel the world owes them a living, and also they are bad, they mimic this bad.  It becomes their identity.  When I see and hear white teenage boys acting as if they are from a black, ghetto I see senselessness.  Then wonder whether they want to get a job and work, whether they would go to the interview and talk in the same fashion they are now.  They are unaware, naive of the world and only know their small area.  It seems ignorance is the new in.

What they don't see but I see is the new stupid.  Stupid is what stupid says and does.  The youths are lemmings.  All running towards the cliff edge.  They are creating their own culture when it does not exist.  It seems they want to be downtrodden, they want to act this way because it is their existence.  They are becoming a reality of stupidity.  A reality of a self fulfilling prophecy they see from TV.  The area isn't bad, it isn't so downtrodden it should be downtrodden.  OK this area of London I live in does suffer from poverty, there are social problems, but they are not of epidemic proportions.  Yet the teenagers of this area want it to be an epidemic, they want to make one.  The street and the hood is where their friends are,  it exists because they want it to exist not because it really does exists.  Their full out copying then becomes a real thing.  At which point their pretend fears become real fears.  Real knifes and guns being held.  Real drugs infiltrating what was a relatively secure area.  All because of the school holidays.  This is the world they see young, the space of their birthdays seems to be forever,  they will get older but this is the only moment they see. As if their life will be eternally stuck in the here and now and age is something which will not touch them, because time passing is also inconceivable.

It is sad, frustrating and annoying.  The new good thing is stupid.  It's witnessed when a group of teenagers go walking down the street and in tow is a large pregnant girl.  I wonder if she will be pushing her pram and baby around with her gang, and then for how many days, or weeks.  It is an unfortunate thing.  Teenage girl, pregnant, little education and a stereotype.  Lets not forget to mention they all have frying pan hats, baggy trakky bottoms and badges of ignorance.  Growing up sure will tough for some of them, especially when they find out there's will be more to life.  A little more than the glorification of density.

God help the Queen.

Useful idiots

I was listening to the radio this morning.  It was the World Service.  This is a good channel to listen to on a Sunday because it gives news items and little sketches of interest.  One item today was about the Holocaust Stalin had inflicted upon his own people.  It was said some 10 million Russians died during it, when referring to the Ukraine genocide.  But because Putin is in power today and was a member of the secret police, he had managed to re write the history books so now in schools there is only one short paragraph which disputes it ever happened.  There was also something they called 'useful idiots.'  This term had apparently been coined in Lenin's time. Such people of  were used as free public relations advocates for Russia.  They would be wined and dinned and given all the best treatment while visiting Russia.  Nice things would be said to them of their work, they would be flattered and men were often given the attention of very attractive Russian women.  They were famous people, writers, singers, actors and the such like.  A short list would include Ernest Hemmingway, Walter Duranty and Che Guevara.  After being wooed and their big ego's stroked they began to purr louder than the biggest Persian cats.  Sent back to their own countries to extol the virtues of communism and Russia as the best thing since sliced bread.

How sad it is normally intelligent people can be so hoodwinked and how important it always is to have a second viewpoint, an opposing view point which is ready to ask questions some find very uncomfortable.