Trump, Dumbing Down

DONALD TRUMP made it abundantly clear, in his own special way. All those Russian aircraft destroyed last Sunday by Ukrainian drones were just sitting there, motionless, out in plain sight doing nothing, harming no one, when they were ruthlessly attacked. He went on to predict that Russia will respond to this attack. He may as well have accused Zelensky and the Ukrainians of war crimes consisting of wantonly damaging and destroying the property of a sovereign nation. Trump has already essentially made himself into a vassal of Vladimir Putin, and begun the process of realigning the United States with Russia, a fellow fascist authoritarian leader aligned against corrupt, democratic Ukraine. Meanwhile, our Secretary of Health and Human services, the agency which is systematically being dismantled by its current leader as part of the remade MAGA America project, in response to a question about impending Medicaid cuts, reminded us that "everyone has to die", while standing in a cemetary for emphasis. Thus we witness the level of intellectual thought, discourse, and policy formulation within the Trump administration, in all its glorious absurdity. Itw rude, and therefore wrong, for Ukraine to destroy its enemy's motionless bomber aircraft, and its useless to spend money on poor people, because they're going to die, eventually, anyway. As always, the most horrifying part of all this is that Trump, it has long been agreed, is not a cause of anything, but rather, a symptom of much. Trump's hatred, anger, and immersion in false alternative realities are all characteristics rampant throughout contemporary American culture, and deeply embedded within it. They are, arguably, core American values. Just as there are multiple personalities bureied within us all, so national cutlures, especially one so diverse as that which blends together seemingly mutually exclusive cultural characteristics in the United States. How can anyone who pays the most cursory attention to the American media fail to conclude that violence is deeply rooted in American history, values, and modern society? Conversely, economic facts require one to conclude that we teh American people are simultaneously quite greedy and extremely compassionate and generous. Its own foundation and evolution based upon genocide, violent conquest,and slavery,there is no nation on Earth which stands so firmly opposed to those things than the the U.S.A..A large portion of the American people, conservatives, harbors the utterly false belief that not only is much of the federal government useless and wasteful, but that much of it, many of its bureacrats, are in fact aligned in opposition to fundamental, traditional Americans, and perhaps even ready to turn the country over to communists. Hence, Trump's insane, chaotic destruction of much of it. The highly questionable meme about China ripping off the United States, a favorite right wing rant, underscores Trump's frenetic, illegal, chaotic tariff policies. I little historical research reveals that between the two, it has mostly been the United States which has done the ripping off regarding China. Trump's war on Harvard is a blatantly obvious manifestation of the religious right wing's attitude towards science, education, and progressive thought generally. Harvard will probably kick Trump's ass in court. But if they don't, then woe be to America, or the curtain will be falling, and the dark ages returning.