The cancer infecting the political Left

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(12-12-2020, 04:10 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Trump endorsed the racism and expected others to trivialized occasional incidents in which black people are assumed to be criminals, perhaps in error, with the cops over-reacting lethally. As with a dictator, the President established what he expected people to think and how to speak of him.  He has his fanatical supporters, and he seems to have expected the rest of us to go along.  One of the salient characteristics of a personality cult is that people are to do things even if such sacrifices their freedom, their moral compass, and even their personal safety in support of the Leader. 

I have seen characteristics of foreign personality cults in Trump and no analogue in American history. I recognize the commonplace yard signs... everyone has had those at one time or another. The news media have not gone along except for those that accept the Trump agenda without reservation as do their devoted users. The most benign explanation is that Donald Trump has adopted the practices stars of pop music who had their swooning fans, as did Frank Sinatra in his time (Sinatra did not need it, as his talent was solid enough to allow him to top the charts) or "Beatle-mania". This said, Sinatra didn't have command over anything and the Beatles did not set social policies. 

With a personality cult one is expected to recognize the harm that people do, whether the degradation of political life, the destruction of civil liberties, corruption of the political process, or even military blunders as brilliance. His long and disorganized harangues and his insulting tweets are the antithesis of what one expects of a President. Ideally the expressions of a President (and it is acceptable that these be composed by a speechwriter) be clear, simple, and complete in a small passage. Even if one disagreed with him, Ronald Reagan did that well. Obama is much the same. Trump is muddled, excessively complex, and meandering... or he turns to shock-jock language of the sort that one associates with Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. Add to this the mass of Trump banners that people treat as if objects of reverence. I can see through it.  



 

So, what are you going to do without Trump around to pick on or whine, bitch, cry, complain or make fun of as stock markets decline and money moves and tax protests take hold as Bumbling Biden clings to power by his feeble finger tips as I'm telling you and every other Liberal fool  who are prone to becoming members of personality cults that I told you so or telling you tough as you're being drug into a Democratic fray over entitlements that Progressive Gen Xr's have no chance in hell  to win.