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Untergang des Abendlandes
Wherein the author opines Trump may be a damn sight better for the nation and the world than the establishment favorite, the criminal opportunist Hillary Clinton
—Gui Rochat—
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“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite” (Every nation gets the government it deserves): Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821).
Trump: The natural product of a cynical and decomposing system. [CC BY-SA by Michael Vadon]
His is not a phenomenon that jumps up like a Jack-in-the-Box but, factually, like his counterpoint Hilary Clinton, a product of deliberate policies to keep the capitalist state running, currently in its most malignant stage: the imperialist phase.
His support are the many masses of workers, who betrayed by their trade unions and sunk into a debt-burdened consumerism entered the petty bourgeois sector of society, much like the class that kept the Third Reich going. Yet, to make any serious comparison between Trump and der Fuehrer is obviously spurious because the US is neither the Weimar Republic nor is he himself a product of lower-class origins driven by resentment and hatred for his inferiors. Like the Clintons, Trump is the typical cynical materialist, created by the post-war abundance of US society, a situation thought to last forever but soon quickly absorbed into the normal industrial competition between the continents. US strength, born from ample resources, human and natural, carries on as all material empires linger on after their apogee.
Though again comparisons with the Roman Empire are mostly spurious, the decline and fall of Rome as described by the clever Gibbon seem to parallel our own times. The despair and the great doubt about the rulers invade a fast decaying empire when outward wars to keep the invaders at bay do not work any longer and when as Spengler thinks the last rites consist only of technological advances. [The US, or as it is sometimes defined, the colossal “AngloZionist” empire, is not really threatened by any outside entity of comparable military might, and the wars it faces are of its own creation. The whole thing is a huge imposture. In Rome’s case, the barbarians did indeed match and surpass Rome’s ability to defend itself, and the invasions and turmoil that ensued were not of its own manufacture. Ours, as far as the forthcoming cataclysm which will inevitably affect the US masses goes, is totally made in Washington.—Eds.]That Trump is soundly feared and despised by the ruling Republican Party is because they fear that he will speed up the decline, not rescue their efforts to save the status quo from defeat. It is eminently ill advised then for liberals and leftists to so relentlessly criticize Trump, because he is in fact an iconoclast. His evident objectionable points of view are shared by many undereducated but very resentful victims of US capitalism, who experienced their standard of living decline since the ebullient post-war years. What can one expect from deprivation except anger and violence in contrast to the equanimity of well-upholstered academicians and children of privilege? The relevant rot of a society exposed like in Satyricon so well set out by Petronius gives a clue why morality is a luxury well eaten raw, that is to say uncooked by human ideology and that stasis is the enemy of any dignified existence for the masses.
Every US president within memory is undistinguishable from his colleagues in all matters of real substance —domestic and international—and the fact that a female one may take over is as exciting as the second coming of a Ms Thatcher. One reads with some trepidation therefore the usual platitudes of the democratic candidates which promise for every citizen a decent life, but which are as ephemeral when tested to reality, as all US advertising is in the popular media. The US populace needs to get out of its utter self hypnosis and instead of choosing the safe but ultimately more damaging tranquility of false promises by a Clinton (and how short a memory the masses have in regard to the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act and the welfare restructuring during Bubba’s time), they would be well advised to consider that a rebellion is possible with Trump, as his messages may be revolting, but his disruptive power is huge exactly because of his mass following. It is not a question thus of morality, because in US politics there is no such thing, but rather a question of Realpolitik. By destructing the potential that he may promise, one fully guarantees the vested interests a longer shelf life with the gradual immiseration of most and ultimately probably a destroyed world. Now is the right time to halt it by disruption and refusal.
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