Fooling Half of The People

The rock band "The Who" prayed that we wont be fooled again.  But honey, we have remained a nation of fools.

Take Donald J Trump (Please).  Here is a grifter of average intelligence who has refined his art to such a degree that he fooled half the voters in America into believing that he would make America great again.  (By the way, how's that working out for ya, farmers, small businesses, traders, government workers, ...?)

If Trump has any shard of genius it was figuring-out that many white Americans feel indifference towards the plight of others.  He has tapped into that lack of empathy and has seemingly convinced the MAGA crowd that they need an authoritarian leader (perhaps a king) to get America back on track.  Somehow the MAGA faithful do not realize where that track is leading to:  rich and privileged running things for their own benefit.  

Whether your bete noir is Communists, Muslims, LGBTQ, wokeness, or just uppity minorities, there is a place for you in Trump's America.  Never mind that his fiscal policies benefit the top 2% of wealthy elites, he has convinced the hoi polloi that they will better-off under an oligarchy than a democracy.  

I am continually amazed that more people cannot see through this charlatan.  It's obvious to sensible observers that he does not put in the work of being presidential, or diplomatic or serious.  The details are unimportant to him.  He always thinks he is the smartest guy in the room.  More amazing yet are the enablers who protect him from scrutiny.  Did they not learn anything from watching their predecessors being tossed under the bus.  (Remember: most of he witnesses at the Jan 6th impeachment hearing  were former staffers, and most of them who were close to him and who respected the Constitution have declared him unfit for office.  Whether the current batch of courtiers  are driven by adulation, self-interest, fear, or evil hearts, I am not sure.

 Call me cynical, but after listening to political interviewees for most of my life, I have come to believe that nearly every word out of their mouths contains a known untruth, and therefore not worth my attention.

Much like interviews with sports figures, whether they be players or managers or former players and managers now doing play-by-play and analysis.  It's all a bunch of bullshit gibberish. The so-called journalists are not any better.  In their haste to "bring you the exclusive breaking news" they offer up fragments of half baked accounts that "something has happened and we will bring you more extensive information to you as soon as we find out what it is."  Stay tuned.