The Trumpian Civil War.

Trump is sure. There is not one person in the whole USA that is more sure. People who don’t know stuff are unsure and people who do know stuff are also unsure because that knowing includes the realisation there are many things one doesn’t know. That leaves Trump; totally 100% sure in a daunting world. He attracts people who want to be sure but don’t know stuff and haven’t realised there are many things they don’t know. He gives them cast iron surety without question or effort in finding out stuff. He is so sure he is above being challenged and his followers, in following his lead, also become beyond challenge. Any challenge that does occur is thus by definition false and must be expunged. Trump supporters have found the ultimate answer, surety, something we’d all like to find but can’t. We can’t for good reason. We either don’t know enough to be sure or know enough to realise it’s a false concept, one can never be 100% sure. But Trump has proved the immense attraction of feeling sure and the apparent success it can bring, apparent because he has not been at all successful in real world terms. His life has been a litany of failures and abuse. So the scene is set, the ‘sure’ against the majority unsure, but the ‘sure’ have the strength of surety on their side, a feeling they would rather die for than give up. I’m guessing Trump was a frightened youth brought up on high demands heavily policed emotionally, hence his highest fear as an adult is showing his fear and admitting failure. His followers love his fearlessness, which is merely his fear of showing any, and his success, which stems from his fear of admitting failure. So what to do? His followers will be angered by jokes at his and their expense and easily dismiss ‘false’ claims that run counter to their beliefs because they are in a similar state of fear. Difficult. ‘How does your fear give you strength?’ ‘You’re not alone.’ ‘ We are all afraid too.’ ‘Why does Donald looks afraid?’ ‘Would I wise to believe everything you say?’ Phrases like these don’t confront, they puzzle. They induce a question, ‘why are they saying that?’ and questions stimulate a need for an answer. They work in the mind of the listener when alone with no external pressure. Well that’s the best I can come up with.

Devastating Logic.

Last night realised caring for nature, politics and our environment is mostly a middle class concern. It’s led by TV personalities for people with enough money and time to act. They, we, consider it the right thing to do because of education and awareness. All well and good, but. Those who’re struggling to make ends meet, who don’t have the time to think about it or the education and awareness to appreciate our upcoming problems consider it differently. We’re, ‘the one’s who have too much time on our hands, have a bee in our bonnet, are too comfortably off to understand the real practicalities of ordinary life.’ They definitely don’t think, ‘they’re better educated and know more about these things than I do so I’d better listen to them.’ So it all becomes a well intentioned shot in the foot. Have we become the creators of Trump supporters and Brexiteers? A chill descends. Only Greta Thunburg escapes this puritanical umbrella. And the wealthy are no better. They’re so comfortably off and equally uneducated to worry about global warming; they already have an air conditioned chill-out room, home cinema and gym. It’s hard to know what to do for the best. The best I can think of is laugh. We’re not wealthy but comfortable enough to survive Trump and Brexit, and even the pandemic because we’re aware, we think. It’s the unthinking unaware that’ll take the brunt of all these problems. So manya manya manya thickos you brought it on yourselves! You should have thought about it. Tough love I know but someone's got to do it.