Trump the Savior
What Noam Chomsky says here is spot on, especially with respect to Trump.
What makes Trump so good at this is his facility to invent a new boogieman every couple of days:
Communism, Dr. Fauci, Venezuela’s drug boats, Iran, birthright citizenship, democrats, the damage done by previous presidents, the climate hoax, the vandals at the Reflecting Pool, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, liberals in education, the Hollywood elite, unsafe vaccinations, trans people, a nuclearized Iran, massive voter fraud, Haitians eating our pets, Harvard, the ex-Fed Chairman, NATO, wind turbines, the far-left radicals, the election control people, the list goes on.
Then there are the near-daily outrages:
The Kennedy Center, the arch, turning Gaza into a luxury resort, annexing Greenland, accepting a $400 million Qatari luxury jet, dozens of violations of the Emoluments Clause, curtailing environmental emission standards, usurping the Panama Canal, refusing to pay damages court-awarded to E. Jean Carroll after being adjudicated a rapist, pardoning hundreds of violent convicted felons, accepting bribes for pardoning white collar fraudsters, insider trading, orchestrating huge international deals that benefit his children, targeting Jack Smith, Jamie Raskin, and dozens of other political enemies, protecting ICE agents who commit murder/manslaughter, and leasing federal wilderness land for oil and gas exploration to profit his billionaire donors.
The more indefensible the better. If it doesn’t make him billions of dollars and/or distract from his numerous legal woes, e.g., the Epstein Files, it’s worthless.
Is her point that there are countries that are even more repressive to women’s rights?
The words at left may seem obvious to you and me but realize that we live among tens of millions of people who are completely desperate to cling onto their beliefs that Trump is an honest and effective servant of the American people, however contrary to the evidence this may be.
As shown here, there actually have been world leaders who were deeply honorable people.
At left we read what Grateful Dead cofounder Jerry Garcia said about the kind of life that he and his fans want.
At left is the narrative that Republicans want you to accept as true. And, given the erosion of our educational system and capacity for critical thinking, this will work for the MAGA crowd, and perhaps a few other idiots.
I present the chart at left, though I do so without any belief that it will change anyone’s thinking.
Is what we see at left actually true?
There are essentially two forms of government on this planet: those that care about the wellbeing of their citizens and serve their interests and those that don’t.
Just nominate some well-educated businessman or city mayor — or maybe just a principled lobster fisherman.
