Post Presidential Posturing

 DONALD TRUMP, like all petty tyrants and gangster bosses addicted to adulation and blind obedience, now commences post presidential preening, prancing, and posturing, like a peacock on meth. The surreal spectacle to be unveiled over the next four years will include yet more MAGA rallies, reality TV, aTrump news network, and arun for the presidency in twenty twenty four, just for kicks, scheduled around an occasional sexual molestation or two. The MAGA rallies will become increasingly pathetic, laughable spectacles, a ranting elderly hand wringing lunatic with an orange toupee, spewing screeching, nonsensical garbage. his cult of followers will lose faith by gradual degrees, as they dimly begin to perceive their own pointless futility of protesting an election long over. people hide their true selves from others to gain social acceptance, and from themselves to gain self esteem. A recently published monograph entitled "Inner Truth, Outer Lies" written by a native of Turkey who teaches at Duke describes the psychology of "preference falsification" in which we hide and disguise our opinions from others and often from ourselves. People living in oppressive cultures like Iraq under Saddam, or East Germany under communism mostly pretended to support the oppressive regime, but the minute it was overthrown their true hatred of their vanquished oppressors was revealed. One might extrapolate that a person who has discarded this behavior in favor of unrelenting honesty has escaped the wheel of society, has become enlightened, and has become a sort of bodisatva among Americans. The purity of the self aware, unencumbered mind. Those who support Trump, the tens of millions of them, possibly are supporting Trump to justify their true inner selves, to allow for a release of their racist hatred, xenophobia, and fear of societal change. It might be easier simply to support a popular politician than to comes to terms with the more unpleasant aspects of one's true inner self. Eighty eight percent of republicans believe, or claim to believe, that the election was stolen. The thoughtful educated among them know better, but go along to get along, as a tactical ploy. Only the majority of reflexively responding thoughtless Trump followers could possibly brainwash themselves into actually believing the stolen election nonsense. they are deceiving themselves, but, much to our good fortunate, not the saner majority of good citizens.