What is the attraction of the 21st century's mini Hitlers?
With the Turkish referendum going Erdogan’s way (as
I guessed – see last week’s cartoon) we have to ask ourselves – WHY the world
has such a penchant for these mad men. The fat stupid type Hitlers – Kim
Jong-un; the plain nasty ones – Duterte and Assad and the pig style Hitlers –
Trump e.t.c.
On a lesser scale why do people actually vote en-masse for
self-harm (yes I’m thinking Brexit)…
Now we watch nervously to see if the French are
going to go down the same sewer with Le Penn.
In the UK, the phrase ‘turkeys voting for Christmas’
was used in relation to the vote to leave the EU. But at least turkeys – the
fat flightless birds - go to make a sumptuous meal (if, unlike me, you eat
meat). But why are people voting for meanness? Why are people voting to have
their rights taken away? Why are people voting for less kindness, less freedom,
less humanity?
These are rhetorical questions. I do not believe
there are logical answers. Yes these monsters appeal to the lowest denominator.
Yes they appeal to fear and prejudice. But are there really more stupid scared
people in the world than good people?
Where does letting these inadequate, spiritually
ugly men take over the world get us? Kim J-u and creepy Trump couldn’t decide who
won the bad hair competition so they’re using weapons to see who is the biggest
idiot.
Let’s face it – if you were playing ‘whose the
person you’d least want to be stuck in a lift with’ it would be a tough choice.
Kimmy has had top brass executed (including an uncle
who didn’t clap loudly enough) and Donald put American servicemen’s lives at
risk by openly saying America should go after Middle East oil while troops are trying to organise peace and co-operation on the ground. Oh and with the Muslim
ban.
Both would rather spend their country’s wealth
on weapons than on health care or social services and they are both unhinged - need I go on?
The only thing is that Americans had a choice as did
the Turkish - the Koreans didn’t – so Kimmy is easier to explain than Trump and
Erdogan.
Erdogan wants to re-introduce the death penalty. Trump,
who can’t spell – has no morals – is a bully, a misogynist, a sex pest -
doesn’t know if he bombed Syria or Iraq (while eating 'beautiful cake'). He is a spiteful brat who is repealing Obama legislation just because it
was Obama legislation. I mean – what kind of guy reverses a ban on pesticides
proven to cause brain damage in children? What kind of lunatic reverses
legislation to make cars more efficient AFTER that legislation has been
accepted by the industry?
One of Trump’s main campaign pushes was that he is
such a great business man. Many people, conned out of money to go to a Trump
university, successfully sued him. He couldn’t make a success of casinos in Las
Vegas, the gambling capitol. And one of the reasons that he is in hock to Vlad
the Putin is because he ran out of people to borrow money from following
business failure after business failure.
Why does a man who vowed not to get involved in
‘other people’s’ conflicts use a weapon costing (and this is an average of the
various prices put forward) $16million per unit? We are told the weapon killed
36 – (or 92 depending on whose guesses you are using) and 300 metres of
tunnels. Really? That is a lot of money to kill very few ‘baddies’. It sounds
like very, very poor ROI.
Then we were told it was not about the Afghan hit –
it was about sending a ‘message to North Korea’. And you have to worry about a
bloke who can go from tweets to MOAB in one step. Frankly the tweets were better
value. They were free and caused easily as much damage as the multi-million
dollar bomb.
As Erdogan dreams about state murder and opposition
detention, is Trump flicking through the military catalogue poking his stubby
fingers at pictures of weapons and asking some square jawed buzz cut ‘what does
this one do?’ and ‘can I have a go?’ like he did with that truck at the
Whitehouse – ‘Oh please let me press the horn’.
The fat stupid spoilt spiteful bloater babies are in
charge of Armageddon and the combination of fear and ignorance is like
chucking a petrol tanker into an active volcano.
But I still don’t get where these shits come from. Is the
devil running a factory where these men are churned out like the Orcs in Lord of the Rings? Is there an army of
them ready to mess things up whenever something good gets a foothold? Or are they
just always there, in the background, ready to take over whenever stupidity,
self-interest and meanness reach a zenith?
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