Things have been upside down for a long time. We’re sitting back, blaming a small handful of patently self-interested politicians for what we arrogantly call either bad government or any number of other shortfalls. Somehow we’ve managed to convince ourselves that the likes of Matt Gaetz or Donald Trump or any numberof other proven idiots are the ones running the world. And it is only my reluctance to appear overly zealous that I choose to ignore others such as Putin or the most historically egregious maniac Hitler. Since when, I ask you, did any one of them tell you what to do? It’s just the other way around. And make no mistake, they haven’t any interest beyond preserving themselves to opt for this or that. It’s otherwise all trifling horseplay to see who wins.
The real discredit for outrageous behaviour – whether starting a violent murderous war in Ukraine or violating business and contractual limits in America – belongs not with the petty vanguards of that stupidity but rather with those of us who have allowed them to write our history. And if you chime in and seek to obstruct my logic, I similarly ask you how those maniacs sustain themselves in office without our critical choice.
If, as it is constantly asserted, Trump represents the “base” (whatever that anamolous word means), then the problem isn’t this criminal from New York City, it’s America’s base. I cannot believe that in 2023 we’re pondering the survival of democracy as a form of government, the only one “based'” on equality. Everything else is a variable measure of autocracy or sovereignty, all of which is designed with one group in mind only. If this collection of politicians or supremacists think they speak for the masses or whomever, it’s time we speak for ourselves.
Pretending that vicarious thinking through them is only a convenient answer to the inexpressible daily obligations we must endure is absurd. You can think while brushing your teeth or sitting on the toilet. Thinking of this elemental nature is not obscured or obstructed by anything. If it were, the politicians would never have any resource from which to derive their so-called authority. It’s time for us to get off the pot and tell them what to do, not the other way around!
If, as I suspect, the one’s in command – that is, “we the people” – choose instead to lather these proven idiots with the laurels of accomplishment and leadership for our own poisonous purposes, then we’re getting exactly what we ordered. Calling them puppets on a string is a dismissive credit. We’re simply stewing in our own juices.