What You See Isn't As Bad As What You Get

   "Having just read the book that inspired the musical, Hamilton, I was expecting to feel reassured that what we are seeing today in our presidential politics is unique in its unsavoriness.  Not at all.  We define who we are by the good things we imagine we could be; and which those who disagree with us certainly are not.  What is so sad about this state of being is that we are convinced we should believe ourselves."

T. Quidd, p.896 Now Look at What The Hell We're Doing.  Riner International Publications and Day Old Baked Goods at a Discount.  201 6.

     What if he never planned to win the general election, though if by chance he did his purpose would not be lost.  And what if that purpose was to increase the divide between citizens of the left and of the right and become the lauded leader of an angry and violent isolationist right.  What if his goal is to create and direct a war that will make him tantamount to the first king, dictator, emperor; the all empowered premier of the United States?  Indeed, what if his ultimate goals are beyond nationalistic?  Maybe even global.  America is an easy place to inspire an armed insurrection, to raise an army with admittedly limited armaments but unlimited loyalty from those eager to bring about the destruction of the wealth-controlled, phony democracy that the U.S. has indeed become.  Republicans courted the potential powers of a disingenuous right masquerading as true believers in the sort of “adjusted” Christianity that has little to do with the actual teachings attributed to Jesus, but much to do with the tribalism and chastisement based culture of old testament rhetoric.  Trump recognizes the malleable, eager to-be-led nature of his core devotees perhaps even better than Adolf Hitler understood the readiness of his own followers to be convinced of the justification for their cathartic violence.   And win or lose in the national election, Donald Trump has already become the leader to those who are so angry because they must, by now, realize they are losing the subgroups to which they have long needed to see themselves as being superior.