Politically Erect

Drama queen. Here we thought Trump wants to be king. He just wants to be a star…maybe a porn star or reality star.  Oh yeah, done that.

So he pads around the big house with little Don in his hand while he strokes out his Twitter twitch. I mention this only in the interest of national security. Many a state secret has been exposed during the throes of passion. And for dear leader, it’s all about stoking passions. The reptilian brain is so in charge I swear the outer skin will slough off to reveal the scaly reality.

Trump does have a hard on for (insert your preferred minority here), but not content to harbor his own resentments he reels in his devoted audiences and enlists their emotional responses to his deviant purposes. Anger is an especially useful emotion. It is impossible to retain rational, critical thought when angry. And he keeps his minions pissed off. He by the way is not above all this. He is just as susceptible to ‘roid rage and he lets it spill out in what would normally be considered embarrassing fashion, but instead only serves to further inure him to his crowd.

He is the sexy man the way Ted Bundy was charismatic. Predatory, demanding, angry, domineering, with just a smidge of feminine self doubt. No wonder his admirers can’t resist him…all that macho bull shit. Those in possession of political power cleave to him not because they feel a kindred spirit, but because they realize they are of the same species. And rather than resist they rationalize and project their idealized selves onto him. It’s a field day for the weak.

Since we’re talking sexy, the move is on with renewed vigor to challenge Roe v. Wade. Impregnate: sure. Terminate: check with your lawyer. The man obsession with womb control is never ending. Barefoot and pregnant is the new old law of the land along with the idea that women are the property of their husbands and any woman raped had it coming.

If you like your autocrats fat and sassy,Trump is your guy. And if you like Trump and his minions up in your business, stock up on wire hangers. Because no woman has the right to presume she has moral superiority over another woman who has to make a decision about reproduction not in harmony with their views. And certainly no man has the right to dictate a woman’s right to choose. In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Trump move from day one has been to appease the evangelical right by stacking the judicial deck with conservative judges. If you still have viable eggs, keep your legs crossed or your medicine cabinet stocked, because increasingly you will have no option to terminate legally. Talk to Gloria Steinem. Or any current or past leader of Planned Parenthood. Wake up.

Not only is democracy in decline, but tolerance and acceptance is in decline. And that is death to anyone who falls outside the rigid epistemology of the fringe right wing nuts.

Stay strong my friends.

 

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