Being In Love With A Criminal

BONNIE AND CLYDE were very deeply in love. Their crime spree was their honey moon.It was their wasy of showing their love and loyalty to each other. Them against te world. It was their adrenalin rush in a world with no excitement, but only the endless boredom of an environment of economic collapse and prolonged depression which gave them nothing to do for fun. It was their way of getting revenge on a world they believed had turned its back on them, betrayed them by stripping away all hope of conventional success, of any alternative to failure. So they succeeded and loved each other and proved themselves to each other in the only way they thought they could. It is easy to fall in love with criminals, for criminals seem exciting. Violent criminals invariably have lovers. And, as everyone knows, love cannot be stopped with inellect once its fuse has been lighted. Those of us who feel anger and frustration at the enduring popularity of Donald Trump must somehow grasp and accept and understand this feature of human nature, to understand the Trump movement. For angry, frustrated people, in a world of colored people, gay people,climate change fanatics, a world of constant, uninvited change, Donald trump is the hero of, the defender of, a world his supporters so desperately want to preserve but cannot. To Jesse James, to Bonnie and Cyde, to Pretty Boy Floyd, society was the villain, and they, the valiant fighters for the little man. To validate and vindicate their hopeless crusade againt a corrupt world of bankers and powerful wealthy overlords, they willingly shared their ill gotten spoils with others.To themselves and to millions of Americans who rooted them on, they were the good guys, heroes fighting a noble if hopeless war against a corrupt, all powerful, unfair establishment. That is the circumstance into which Donald Trump has managed to cleverly insinuate himself, the heroic crusader for the forgotten, the dispossed, crusading against the elite, arrogant, liberal progressives who are taking control of and changing their world beyond recognition. Donald Trump and his followers, irreversibly ensconced in a siege mentality. And Donald Trump needn't even bother to share his wealth. He need only talk and rail agsinst his chosen enemies.That is why it is folly to expect Trump and his movement to quietly go away. They will go away, but only with a bang, not a whimper, as all criminals feel they must. They must gain self respect by gaining the attention of others. They will never surrender.Their enemies, mainstream progressive culture, is simply too evil to cooperate with. White Christians, fighting nobly against a rising tide of cultural diversity. Deep down they must know they cannot win; religious, sexual, and ethnic diversity are here to stay, but that is not the important thing. What is imporant is that they carry their noble fight to the bitter end,and go down in a blaze of glory.