This was written in 2016, before Trump’s first election. Seems like lessons aren’t being learned, and we may see a third Trump election.
Meditation for April 2nd
Trump Will Be President Again Because of You
Trigger Warning: political post, looking at yourself, inciting change, dramatic, generalizations, dark humor, privilege, confrontational
On November 8th, 2016, Americans will walk to the voter booths and choose a President of the United States of America, and one of the choices is Donald John Quimby Francis Trump. There are some pretty good odds that Trump will be sworn in. Some of you are already looking at Canadian property; some of you are laughing, and a few of you, I know, love the idea.
There are a few reasons you are letting Trump be President.
You turned your back on intellectual culture. You started paying attention to reality television, listening to pop performers, reading young adult fiction, or watching the movies based on young adult fiction because. We stopped reading, stopped learning reading comprehension, and shied away from struggling with challenging thoughts. We wanted easy entertainment instead, and it was nice and funny. Still, then, all of a sudden, everyone was only paying attention to those things, and intellectual culture became what old people had feebly hung on to before they died. Trump came back because of reality television and a Comedy Central roast, so the same people who brought you Jon Stewart brought you the next President of the United States of America because he was roasted by Seth MacFarlane, Snoop Dogg, Lisa Lampanelli, and cultural icon Mike “the Situation” Sorrentino.
You would not let go of the eighties. You might be more interested in the punk and new wave fads of the 80s, but Donald Trump is also a nostalgic throwback from those cocaine-fueled years. This is not an “ironic” 80s thing, but a just-became-serious dilemma. We aren’t getting leg warmers; we are getting Ronald Reagan trickle-down economics. Donald Trump is friends with and hung out with your heroes from the ’80s. Donald Trump is still on everyone’s mind because you won’t stop wanting to hear 80s songs and watch 80s TV. After all, you can’t stand hearing or seeing anything you don’t recognize.
He is igniting his final response into a frenzy in response to your identity culture. You wanted this culture, and now people are reacting to it, and someone whose name rhymes with “Wonald Crump” is capitalizing on it. It’s great to accelerate education on diversity, political correctness, and the problem. Still, too white privilege, but too fast, and you get a crowd of privileged white people who don’t want to face the fact that they are doing great at the sacrifice of others, that other people don’t have the same means to succeed, that other people aren’t safe, especially. That’s the police, and that immigration and different points of view are the spice of life, and they are trying to find something to blame for their own mistakes. It looks like this year’s flavor is immigrants, Muslims, women, and minorities. Maybe if we were to stick to what the actual problem is, class war, everything else would get fixed.
You voted for the black guy. He turned the country into a communist soup kitchen and declared Sharia law. Also, there are no guns anymore, so we are now all vegans. Bummer you did that.
You spent too much time playing Hillary and Bernie against each other like rival college football teams. The Democratic Party wanted the establishment in power, not the old socialist lefty upstart from Vermont. It never came down to facts, just Hillary said this, lied about that, cancelled Firefly, misspelled potatoe, too whiny and other non-essential policies that could be important to learn when wanting to choose the right candidate for President, Bernie wasn’t the underdog the Hillary camp paint him as, the polls says that he beats the GOP dudes more than the lady does, Killer Mike is his friend, birds act like Disney birds around him and sing songs while dressing him and that his plans for America. None of the economists you have posted have really answered that question truthfully, or the fact that he can’t do any of that as a President.
Now, Bernie supporters would rather shoot themselves in the foot than vote for Hillary, so here is how Trump wins in November. Bernie has been too lenient on Madame Secretary Clinton because of ethics, which is commendable, but do you think the Republicans aren’t going to spin Nukes and tear her down?
Now social media is clogged with news stories and memes about how terrible Trump is, and what does it do? It emboldens his base. You might think that these news stories or memes will reach someone who is a fan of Trump and turn them, but most of you preach to the choir and reach no one, and the few that do see your posts laugh at you and feel more conviction in their leader. The negative stuff you post is literally advertising him. Some of the arguments aren’t even great arguments in the first place. People use all kinds of logical fallacies to present their arguments, which muddies the water. My two favorites that people use are ad hominem, attacking the arguer rather than the argument, and the if your guy is evil, mine must be good, argumentum ad temperantiam, that everything has to be a compromise of two positions. If we had never talked about him, would he have just disappeared? If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it, does it make a noise?
Some of you won’t vote, no matter what, because the old powers that be are the same or the system is corrupt, but I’m not going to stir that wasps’ nest. In fact, I can empathize with you not voting. It does feel like the system has already been chosen for us, and voting is just a facade. I mean, they literally tell us to vote for the lesser of two evils every four years, and that it’s the most important election ever, but if it’s between two evils and the system will crumble because of the more evil person winning, I don’t think the system is good. The system isn’t broken; it’s not the right system.
You’ll be blamed for Trump, non-voters. You, too, third-party voters, because it’s not a choice if not voting or voting for who you want is going to be the end of democracy; that isn’t democracy. People want someone to blame instead of taking the time to self-reflect on the system that is allowing this.
And since this meditation was written, Trump won in 2016 and in 2024. This tells me the system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as designed to protect capital.
Prayer
Loki,
Since I am a straight, white male,
I can get away with Trump being Prez,
Part of me,
The part that worships you, Chaos,
Wants it to happen.
It would be part lesson learned,
Part fun to watch it all burn,
And part horror.
The horror: who will all the people be that will be affected?
Muslims, immigrants, citizens, and refugees running away from our messes in the Middle East.
Fuck
Maybe Trump will hurry up the end,
Instead of grasping this illusion of Nationalistic greatness.
Maybe Trump is just what this country needs…
…nay, this world!
Amen
Craft
[Due to huge cuts in the Arts by the Trump Administration, we will be only doing prayers from here on out and only to Jesus – the Christmas one, not the Easter one, because the Easter one is too Catholic. To ensure that Christian feelings were not hurt in the making of this blog, the author wishes to make amends to you and your religion, the recognized religion of the United States of America. While making fun of other people is just freedom of speech, poking fun at one’s religion, if it’s Christian, is a grave sin, and if any further fun-making is done, this author will face the consequences. God bless, President Donald Trump, and God bless these United States of America.]
Goal
Careful what is cool now, and what you are into now, because you might be growing a tyrant who has the money, the power, and the means to become the most powerful person in the world.
Sleep tight.