I do keep hearing Donald Trump “isn’t Presidential”. What the fuck can this even mean when we elected Barack Hussein Obama, a nothing from nowhere about whom we STILL know nothing, twice?
Obama’s ACTS Presidential. That is the word, ACT. It has been credible alleged that his entire persona is a creation based upon a friend of his from Chicago: http://www.examiner.com/article/actor-harry-lennix-says-he-trained-obama-to-act-presidential
We have to come to grips with the fact that our political process has become theater, where the tide appears to go one way, then the other, but in reality it is going out, and all of us will be swept away with it, absent some sort of pattern interrupt.
The pundits have been preaching and talking now since at least the 1950’s about Communist propaganda, declining moral values, and the importance of limited government. But no matter who has occupied the White House–other than a brief hiatus under Clinton with a Republican Congress–government has done nothing but expand since the New Deal. Barry Goldwater was talking about Republican sell-outs in 1960.
We can assume that if the Establishment is fine with a candidate, if there is no hooting and howling, if they are talking about what a “fine conservative” they are, how they are “electable”, “Presidential”, then that means they will simply continue the decline of America. They may slow it, but they will not alter the end destination.
Trump’s ENTIRE appeal is that he is a loose cannon, or at least appears to be. He has a huge ego, but that makes it harder to keep him in line. What if he DOES just go ape-shit and start cutting expenses and programs? What if he does raise taxes at the same time, and achieve a balanced budget? Fiscal sanity was at one time unobjectionable on both sides of the aisle. Even Democrats at one time thought a balanced budget was a good thing. They just wanted more spending and more taxes.
We live in a strange world, so much of it abstract. We are forced, by the nature of our system, to take an interest in, and try to form opinions about, people we will never meet, and likely never even see in person. We forced to try and decipher how honest they are, what they might actually do, and to do so through a prism of repeated disappointment and failure.
And as I am realizing, it is important for mental health not to obsess too much about things far away and beyond any hope of control or management. I think I personally look out when I don’t want to look in. I also think that conflict makes me feel at home. I have been in some form of war, I think, since the moment I first looked into my mothers eyes and she realized I was not the girl she assumed I must be.
The thing about the traumatized, I think, is that you seek out pain and conflict and danger, because otherwise you spend all your time anticipating it. Once its there, you no longer need fear its emergence. It is the pregnant silences which are perhaps most terrifying.
I am feeling less and less inclined to post here. It seems I should spend more time with the fall leaves, and economically productive work.