Trumping, Frauding

 LEST WE FORGET, the election of Donald Trump was neither free, fair, nor legitimate. Donald Trump was an illegitimate president from the moment he was inaugurated, and should never have been allowed to serve. Vast amounts of foreign money used by Russian operatives to fill the internet with disinformation tainted the election, and doubtless helped Trump get elected. This is according to the FBI, the CIA, and sixteen other intelligence gathering agencies within the United States government. If you wish to argue, your argument is with them. The Mueller report, conducted thoroughly, assiduously, and transparently by the former FBI Director confirmed this, confirmed that during his election campaign, Trump was fully aware of, accepted, and welcomed Russian assistance, rather than reporting the illegal activity to the authorities. The Mueller report was made available to the American people, all 448 pages of it, but not until A.G. Barr, acting on behalf of Trump, issued a misleading four page summary of it, making it look as if the report was exculpatory, which it  most certainly was not. It was, in fact, damning. Trump and his supporters, pervasively dishonest from beginning to end, understandably dismissed the facts as a hoax, an extremely complicated unlikely hoax involving the FBI, CIA, and thousands of people. Thus the continuing claim by the morally bankrupt Trump and his equally morally bereft supporters, long after the election had been certified is the actual hoax, continues to be a hoax, a fraud embraced by millions of Americans, and is all the more ironic, all the more tragic.  People invent law, religion, and morality to organize and ameliorate he destructive aspects of human behavior. Fair play, and the proper treatment of others are intrinsic to human instincts and behavior, but so are deception and violence, whenever it serves a purpose. Because law, religion, and morality are all relative to the culture of the society in question, throughout history people have tended to form large groups of killers, for the express purpose of gaining dominance and control over mineral resources, the most valuable of which is land itself.  Organized mass murder is a common human expedient. The Trump phenomenon is a fascinating if tragic manifestation of group immorality on a large scale, one of many examples in history. The same people who gladly accepted as president a corrupt person who was elected illegally, with foreign assistance, continue, long after his quite legitimate defeat for reelection, to claim falsely that his defeat was fraudulent. The fascinating and tragic part in this fraud is the apparent fact that none of the participants seem even remotely aware of, nor concerned about, the extreme immorality of their behavior. Or if they are, they conveniently relegate their awareness to the unconscious. There is nothing new in this; large groups, imbued with group mentality, often engage in destructive behavior en mass. It never, however, ceases to be disappointing.