Mr. Trump, the American president elect, clearly belongs to a cult, that cherish superficial charm, grandiosity, and an exaggerated self importance . A need for continuous stimulation, an obvious leaning and relying on lying, deception and manipulation, with no feelings of remorse or guilt .
His first ten days in politics already show numerous flip-flops and reversals on most previously promised issues. I don't think Mr. Trump wanted deep down to be elected president, he wasn't ready for the job, and dreaded the responsibilities, thus the hastily stupid choices of people and advisers around him, mostly previous political failures, plus his immediate family. Good he didn't have few more kids and in-laws of age, we would have had to watch a whole family soap opera running the white house and the country, plus their various businesses.
Mr. Trump, his team, and family, obviously belong to a cult of distraction, a cult of rich imitative consumptionist and consumerists, and pseudo thinkers steering the population from real social injustices, growing economical inequalities and disparities, absurd wars, major health care problems, political corruption and your periodic cyclic economic recessions . Despite the heated and promising rhetoric he used through out his campaign. Totally denying the facts that he grounded his workers and his contractors, disempowered them, used them, and later discarded them.
In America, we have become a society that praises entertainment above substance, with a total degradation of our culture, so a majority of men and women whole hearted, espoused and elected a 5th grade speech, rhetoric and slogans. Fewer and fewer are the keepers of values and a culture that is being denied and passively and willingly being given up. versus a majority leaning more every day to a popular culture, that cannot properly separate illusions from reality, and are so easily prone to manipulation .
To quote Chris Hedges ; " functional illiteracy in north America is epidemic, there are 7 million illiterate Americans, another 27 millions who are unable to read well enough to complete a job application, and 30 millions who can't read a simple sentence, there are 50 millions who read at a 4th or 5th grade levels, nearly a third of the population is illiterate or barely literate, a figure that is growing by few millions each year".
Propaganda, simple talk and cheap TV entertainment, have become a substitute for ideas and ideology, and in this rapid decline of values and culture, more than half of voters, became fertile ground for new Trump adventures. America is becoming every election year, more captive to smaller groups and their Alt.right demagogy , groups who cast their ballots based on how candidates make them feel, they vote for any slogan, a charming smile, a glimpse of sincerity and attractiveness. Candidates using narratives and speeches, prepared by very well paid professionals, mostly dumping and trumping reality for the illusionary promise of brighter future, and the implicit basic greatness of the gone by nation.
The results are junk politics, that leads to no changes, junk politics that neglect complex problems facing the nation, while maximizing marginal threats imported from abroad . Politics have surrendered to the hands of high manipulative few, and voters who neither seek nor want honesty or reality, as reality is complicated and boring. Voters who only ask to be comforted by cliches, stereotypes and inspirational messages, that only promise them they can be whoever they seek to be .
The ability to amplify lies, to repeat them and have everyone repeat them, has become a fixed pillar of our elections. Truth is irrelevant, we have become manipulated by illusions and those who create and fabricate the most convincing fantasies, and half the population went for it. We were fed many empty rhetorics , people believed what they wanted to believe, and voted. If this is who we really are, this is who we will be .
Finally, and to conclude this election period , I hope Mr. Trump would keep America nearly as safe and in good shape as he received it, and not turn it into the casino he himself and his likes only, like it to be. Or otherwise face history big time, it could turn very harsh on him and his line .
Chris Hedges, in his excellent "Empire of illusion" was inspirational for better understanding the elections, Trumpism, and writing the blog. My many thanks , and as well to all my good readers .
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