Tuesday 12 November 2024 19:32:11 PM CDT
I may ramble a bit with this - or not. Rambling may seem perfectly orderly and coherent to the rambler. A friend who is as he says 'blessed' with Asperger's
says that after many years he learned to compensate for his autism by either concealing or suppressing the symptoms as much as possible in
order to fit in. He is brilliant - most Aspies are - and has had many years of practice. I ramble because... nevermind, I'll just meander
through the garden of thoughts and try not to get us lost.
I was puzzled from an early age at the way people mindlessly repeated by people who should have known better. Upon researching the matter it seemed to
me that it may have been an off-hand remark that for some reason became Lord Acton's legacy. I agree that people given authority or wealth may indeed
come to abuse it, especially if they did nothing to earn it. It is tempting and those of weak character will succumb but those who seek wealth and power
by dishonorable means are already corrupt before they acquire it. Anyone can see that, I thought. But I see many things that other people don't and
wonder why they don't see them.
President Trump's first day in office is still seventy or so days away and while I am more optimistic than I was last Tuesday two months is a long
time. I don't expect trouble on 6 January - the defunct regime can't very well pretend that Trump supporters are 'rioting' to prevent him from
being confirmed. The malcontents may cause some fuss but since almost all of them are paid actors any disturbances should be minor.
I don't believe that the enemies of the Republic who claim that President Trump will be a dictator actually believe their accusations, unless
restoring the Republic constitutes dictatorship. In the minds of some of them it probably does. Freedom is slavery isn't it?
While we are astonished at the enemy apparently not realizing that they are spouting the propaganda of 1984 we should not be - for the masters
freedom is slavery - our slavery. For them the ignorance of the masses is their strength. War is quite peaceful for those who sit in
cushy offices and send others to fight and die. It has worked well for decades and victory was at hand when Donald Trump - for most of his
life a part of 'the system' - rebelled.
Why did he do it? Why did Moses give up his life of luxury and privilege as an Egyptian prince to risk his neck challenging the monarch of
the most powerful nation in that part of the world? OK, Moses had that encounter with a bush but maybe Donald Trump had some sort of
epiphany somewhere back there and saw the looming menace of an increasingly corrupt and repressive government with the debt bomb that would -
if not defused - plunge the nation into chaos and possibly complete collapse. Perhaps it came to him gradually - he said as early as 1988
that he considered seeking the presidency - and by 2016 it had become now-or-never. Not Moses in the desert or Paul on the road to
Damascus but it eventually came to him.
I don't see Trump as a deep thinker or over-analyzer. He's obviously quite intelligent but doesn't waste mental energy. This makes
him impulsive and reactionary and he has near zero political skills - he's brutally honest and doesn't care if someone doesn't like what he
says. For those who believe Trump aspires to be a dictator the thought of Trump - with his force of personality and charisma -
becoming as slick as Bill Clinton (I don't remember Ronald Reagan but he seems to have been pretty good too) should terrify them. More
on that in a minute or so.
Where were we? Oh yeah, Trump as dictator. I believe that if he is to be successful in rolling back the... what? Cancer? That's
probably the best way to describe what has gone on for the past fifty years or so. Tumors planted in government and and pubic
institutions and growing and metastasizing. Some believed that had the election gone the wrong way it might have been
the end of the Republic as it had theretofore existed:
A Democrat victory - even if only for the presidency - could cause an unrepairable breach. The nominal political structure might
remain for years but pockets of resistance unseen by the regime would begin to rise. Like the bubbles forming on the bottom of
a vessel as the water in it is heated, the few bubbles become many and begin to rise to the surface, becoming more numerous and
larger until it is boiling. The minions of the regime see it but it never occurs to them to turn down the heat. As they vainly attempt
to contain what they see as insurrection the country becomes divided into regions, some of which will eventually be uncontrollable.
Varek@Myndcryme
At any rate the disaster did not occur this time but the hysterical predictions of Trump becoming a Hitlerian dictator were amusing
not just because their hysteria is usually amusing - except when it begins to look dangerous - but because if he wanted to to so
he is probably one of the most likely to succeed if he tried. He has literally as in the literal meaning of literally millions
of supporters who would man the barricades for him and given the weakness of the regime both in military and 'law enforcement'
not many of those millions would be required to overcome them. And he has that support without being a politician - if he
employed skilled propagandists he would be invincible.
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All government suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathalogical personalities.
It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Frank Herbert
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