03-16-2017, 08:53 AM
He's gone from Hoxha to Trump in less than a year. He's a character like Viktor Komarovsky (the "Establishment" fellow who hedged his bets between the Tsarist order and the Bolsheviks in Doctor Zhivago. He's the True Believer of Eric Hoffer, interested only in being on the right side of history and having principles easy to sell out when such becomes advantageous.
Fairly intelligent, gay, and black, and he can support Donald Trump? He's a liar or an opportunist. I almost think that he has chosen to align himself now with the worst possible leader of a right-wing America; he may be feathering his nest so that when the Revolution comes he will have the stuff that he needs. He's not buying investments; he's preparing himself for the time when he must prove himself 'pure', when the consumer society is ravaged.
Fairly intelligent, gay, and black, and he can support Donald Trump? He's a liar or an opportunist. I almost think that he has chosen to align himself now with the worst possible leader of a right-wing America; he may be feathering his nest so that when the Revolution comes he will have the stuff that he needs. He's not buying investments; he's preparing himself for the time when he must prove himself 'pure', when the consumer society is ravaged.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.