It’s hard, its impacted, it’s the dump that won’t thump the
shit that won’t quit. You’ve got it and so have I. Trump constipation.
And Hillary isn’t turning out to be political
syrup of figs…
Now that another US news outlet (USA Today) has broken with
tradition and openly slated the Republican candidate we’re really into a raw
new era where screaming from the margins at others who are also screaming from
their fall-back position is normalising. Once that happens there is no way of
moving things through sensibly.
Here I am too, and I’ve tried restraint, I’ve tried to
avoid the subject but it keeps just bothering like a scab you’re not supposed
to scratch. Each morning I wake up and it’s still there. It’s like going back
to my vandalised local park and finding that the play equipment is still burnt. En route trees have
branches ripped off for no reason. And it’ll probably be the same tomorrow. For
no sensible reason. (Ok – you know I start muddling my metaphors when I get
agitated)
To be fare – I’ve not posted about Trump since blog 167. Donald Trump and Katy Hopkins Scientifically
Explained.
Trump is one of the best examples
out there of just what unearned privilege can do to trash a country. If anyone can
give me an argument that he’s not stupid I’d like to hear it. But this man with
a string of failed businesses was started on life’s road with significant
parental wealth and here he is now, living proof that you can polish a turd.
Entrenched
wealth seems to send whole countries down the sewer. Large swathes of the Arab
world are run by spoiled brats who squander their country’s resources while
infrastructure for ordinary people remains in the dark ages (see blog 183 Is Saudi Arabia the World’s Moral Cesspit?).
Here in the UK we somehow never seem to have shaken off
sycophancy and adulation of the rich and powerful – however moronic or dull they may
be.
I’ve written many times on this blog about the dangers to
society when the upper echelons of rigid hierarchy become clogged with
Tim-rich-but-dim. The effects when Trevor-poor-but-clever is not pulled in to freshen up the
increasingly stagnant talent pool, can be terminal.
What most of us find hard to fathom is that there are
clearly lots of Americans who genuinely think Trump should run America. We
hoped he’d be hoist by his own petards (the many many many petards). We hoped
that his stupidity, racism, misogyny (did I mention stupidity?) - would do the
trick but we just can’t shift him. He’s bulky and thick and stuck.
Many have tried the humour emetic. DT memes must be at a record level – even considering the relatively brief time memes have been a
thing. But he’s still there. The whole of America is suffering political anal
retention. Where is the laxative of logic when you need it?
Here in the UK we’ve had the lesson of what happens when
these turds get their way. (N Farage) They talk crap, mess things up then ride off into the sunset on their delusions leaving the
rest of us in the stink.
Furthermore – in terms of any effect the ‘debates’ are having
on Trump’s popularity, the results seem to be that they are not. The entrenched
Trumpites are just that – entrenched, stuck, blocked, bunged up. As were the
Ukippers. The idea that logic or humour or satire or plain obvious facts are
going to budge them is dangerous.
We need something like the
political equivalent of a nuclear suppository. Telling folk, pointing out the
obvious – the lies, the failed businesses, the racism yada yada yada will not work.
It wouldn’t work, any more than telling your teenage daughter that the guy she
thinks she’s madly in love with is a druggy, lying shithead with babies sprinkled all
over the neighbourhood.
So where can we get the necessary political laxatives to
shift this great steaming turd? I mean things are bad here and we didn’t even
get a Farage PM he just made the mess and then disappeared like a really badly
behaved guest who massacres your toilet then leaves without washing their hands
or flushing. Or like those dog walkers who bag up the pooh and then hang it on
a bush or fence when no one is looking and walk off.
If you think a nasty little bag of pooh can’t come along
and wreck a country with spite and lies, check out Brexit. I don’t wish to seem
indelicate but, seriously, when it builds up to this extent, all that is going to happen if they flush Trump, is he’s going to break the toilet
bowel…