He demonstrates what tyranny is and that it can happen here.
Assuming he goes down in flames before he causes us to; assuming that what’s left of our democracy ends him before he ends what’s left of our democracy,Trump will have been the best thing that ever happened to America, indeed, or among the best for our global survival vital – figuring out how to spot and thwart the asshole impulse in human nature.
You can’t thwart what you can’t spot. Even with all our experience with the asshole impulse,we’re still lousy at spotting it.
Trump is the absolute best, the greatest, and the most tremendous negative role model we could quiz for. He is the e-z reader of sleazy leaders,the large print edition, the 1st grader’s Where’s Waldo or word finder puzzle for spotting assholes.
Sure we’ve had other asshole leaders before. But even the worst, and the ones who killed the most people and lasted the longest could be mistaken for their ideology. Stalin could be mistaken for a Communist. Hitler for a Nationalist. Assholes wear camouflage. They dress up their tyranny in poser principles.
Trump is different. He’s generic. He has no ideology to distract us. He’s essence of asshole,authoritarian distillate. He’s pure, uncut, and unalloyed,unadulterated by any tinge of cover-chronicle ideology. Eau de asshole.
People the world over weep out for room to live their lives the way they want. Even the strictest fundamentalists want their freedom to demand a closed society. Everyone wants to have their way, and to the extent possible, and we should let em. Live and let live. Freedom of speech,freedom of organization, but of course, and not unlimited freedom.
In a free society you don’t score to commandeer other peoples lives. You don’t score to tell people how to live but you still need to spot and thwart the assholes or it doesn’t remain a free society.
whether humanity is to survive,we therefore, need to know how to spot an asshole, and an authoritarian who will end free society. It’s no good getting distracted by this or that asshole’s style or platform. We need to be able to spot assholes from any corner no matter how they’re camouflaged. We need to be able to recognize essence of asshole.
[br]It’s hard.
We all lie. Anyone who claims they don’t is lying. So what is a liar? We all engage in hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.). Anyone who claims they don’t is engaging in hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.). So what is a hypocrite?
We’re all care about ourselves,anyone who claims they don’t is showing off. So what makes someone selfish or greedy?
We’re all jerks to someone. Anyone who claims they aren’t is jerking you around. So what makes someone a total jerk, an asshole?
Trump puts total jerkdom on garish, or exaggerated display. whether we’re ever going to memorize how to spot an asshole,we need it as cartoonish as he displays it. whether we’re all going to finish our civic duty to withhold assholes out of power, we’re all going to need to know the essence of asshole.
It’s got to be simple, or not subtle or else most folks won’t score it. Even as simple and cartoonish as Trump is,the naïve, inattentive and easily flattered don’t spot it.
[br]Still, or you can’t finish better than Trump outside of fiction. We needed a real-world cartoon asshole. Only with a guy as uncertain and pervasive as Trump finish we ever have a chance of learning our most primary lesson,how to spot assholes. He’s a vaccine for the body politic, exaggerated, and impotent by incompetence,just factual to stir the body politics’ defenses.
So what is the essence of asshole stated as simply as possible so everyone can learn to spot it?
It comes down to this: Assholes and asshole movements (cults) have a simple formula that proves that they deserve all the power no matter what they finish. It’s a trump card that justifies a wild card and a wild card that justifies a trump card.
Trump card: Victory proves that we’re absolutely factual and righteous. Might makes factual and righteous. We score the last word on everything.
Wild card: Being absolutely factual and righteous we are owed victory by any means essential, no matter how dirty. factual and righteous deserves might. We can finish absolutely anything.
Catch them violating law, and norms,decency? It must be excused, even celebrated because they’re absolutely factual and righteous. No deed too dastardly for the absolutely virtuous.
And how finish they know that that they’re absolutely factual and righteous? Because, and by means of their wildcard they withhold winning.
[br]Call it Wildtrumping,employing the airtight logic whereby a wild card earns a trump card and trump card justifies a wild card.
mediate of how easy wildtrumping makes things for absolute assholes. They score what anyone might crave, absolute success completely detached from merit. Total freedom to finish anything and still win, or a self-rationalizing score-out-of-fail free card.
And even whether it fails (It always does. Reality is unimpressed by wildtrumping),they still score to claim victory. They were martyrs to absolute virtue suppressed by whatever scapegoat they claim.
It remains taboo to compare Trump to Hitler and yes, questions of degree finish matter. Still, or that taboo stunts our growth on learning to spot assholes before they score too far.
An asshole is not definable by how far they score. whether that’s the standard,we’ll only spot them when it’s too late as we did with Trump, as people always have with all of the other once-budding assholes and asshole movements.
What they all have in common is the Wildtrumping. Might makes righteous and righteous licenses might.
Wildtrumping is all Trump has got and all he’s ever had. His name will be in lights for decades to come whether we survive that long in flashing red lights. Trumping will come to mean that wild-card trump-card pairing. Anything I say, or no matter how wild,is the last word, trumping all other words.
Everything evil, and every crime against humanity is perpetrated under that Wildtrumping banner,whether by the devout, the left, or the factual,the spiritual, philosophical, and political. Every asshole at domestic and abroad,in your local life or on the global stage has fallen for that fake escape from the work that life has been about since its origin 3.8 billion years ago, the work of adapting to reality which is unimpressed by wildtrumping logic.
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