Right. No one believes he's smart enough to have engineered any of this, he's just a corrupt buffoon who was in the right place at the right time with the right amount of reality TV fame to benefit from all you just said.
That's the only bright point about all this. Trump is kind of a 1000 year perfect storm of fame, corruption, and psychopathy; and he's fast approaching his expiration date.
I don't expect any of us will live long enough to see a similar skid-mark on the underwear of humanity.
This is where I disagree with you. The rot and infection in our country isn't Trump. Trump is the symptom. It's the people willing to vote for someone like Trump (three fucking times) that represent the real issue with our country. Trump will die in the next 5-20 years. His supporters will not. And they will continue to support degeneracy and racism and bigotry. They will continue to support hurting people they think deserve to be hurt. Conservative ideology is ultimately the problem and most folks dismiss it as a non-issue.
We are not of a like mind wanting the same outcomes just with different paths of reaching it. Conservatives want a country defined by "natural" hierarchies. "Some people 'deserve' to be on the bottom and a permanent sub-class of existence so me and my people can rightfully be above them".
You see it all the time among conservatives. Look at Dying of Whiteness. Trevor was willing to die of a preventable illness because he didn't want to help "Mexicans" or "Welfare Queens".
> Debates raged in Tennessee around the same time about the state’s participation in the Affordable Care Act and the related expansion of Medicaid coverage. Had Trevor lived a thirty-nine-minute drive away in neighboring Kentucky, he might have topped the list of candidates for expensive medications called polymerase inhibitors, a lifesaving liver transplant, or other forms of treatment and support. Kentucky adopted the ACA and began the expansion in 2013, while Tennessee’s legislature repeatedly blocked Obama-era health care reforms.
> Even on death’s doorstep, Trevor was not angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. “Ain’t no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,” he told me. “I would rather die.” When I asked him why he felt this way even as he faced severe illness, he explained: “We don’t need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.”
> At the most basic level, Trevor died of the toxic effects of liver damage caused by hepatitis C. Yet Trevor’s deteriorating condition resulted also from the toxic effects of dogma. Dogma that told him that governmental assistance in any form was evil and not to be trusted, even when the assistance came in the form of federal contracts with private health insurance or pharmaceutical companies, or from expanded communal safety nets. Dogma that, as he made abundantly clear, aligned with beliefs about a racial hierarchy that overtly and implicitly aimed to keep white Americans hovering above Mexicans, welfare queens, and nonwhite others. Dogma suggesting to Trevor that minority groups received lavish benefits from the state, even though he himself lived and died on a low-income budget with state assistance. Trevor voiced a literal willingness to die for his place in this hierarchy, rather than participate in a system that might put him on the same plane as immigrants or racial minorities.
This is the disease we are fighting against. Bigotry which supersedes self preservation. They hate so fucking much they are willing to die to make someone else suffer. Fuck conservatism and fuck conservatives. They uniquely make our world a worse place for everyone to exist in.
