How’s that lesser-evil thing working out?
As el gato malo recently observed, there are two types of Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. One afflicts a subset of those who don’t like him; one afflicts a subset of those who do. Among the afflicted, mere mention of his name evokes either foaming-at-the-mouth rage or enraptured paroxysms.
Trump is the vessel for a lot of hopes and dreams, most of which won’t come true. Should he win, he would again be taking on a multi-trillion dollar totalitarian monstrosity (the term “Blob” is too benign), its remit every important aspect of life within the United States and around the world. Those trillions support millions of government employees, contractors, and beneficiaries. The monstrosity resists any challenge, even if that challenge is only rhetorical. Trump’s challenge the first time was exclusively rhetorical. The monstrosity was bigger, more powerful, more indebted, and more monstrous at the end of his term than at the beginning.
Elected officials come and go; the monstrosity is perpetual. It buries, sometimes literally, anything or anyone contrary to its interests. Even if Trump hadn’t been plagued by Russiagate and other schemes to cripple his presidency, even if he had devoted all his waking hours to vanquishing the monstrosity, it never sleeps and his effort would have amounted to a pinprick.
I have resigned myself to the belief that there is only one way to restore our liberty and freedom. It involves a lot of violence and bloodshed that cannot be avoided, the tyrants will not relinquish their power willingly, as has been the case in the fallen Republic they will only resort to more and more violence and control. Trump is not the answer, that is a pipe dream that will only harden the tyrants resolve. TINVOWOOT.
Consider this. Even if Trump gets elected, the Republican Party will hamper him as much as the Democrat Party. The system has to collapse for change to take place. And there is no guarantee that a collapse will be any better. But it’s an opportunity for us to rid ourselves of the blob.
Great piece.