Standing Up, and Blowing Up, For Trump

THE GUY WITH THE BIG MUSCLES who liked to show off his arms, was, according to people who knew him, somewhat of a kid in the body of a man. One of these people, who as a kid might have been over exposed to America's leisurely recreational wealth, who kind of got the idea that skating and coasting through life was the best way to go. One of those ambition free folks. No problem with that, until it turns to listless anger, and lashes out harmfully at others. He's pushing sixty, and people pushing sixty probably ought to think less about body building and looking like Adonis, and more in terms of health, and ameliorating the ravages of age, which arrive in every life. Also, pushing sixty, its not a bad idea to have some home equity, some life savings, some economic stability, more than just living in a van, like one might do in one's early twenties in the late nineteen sixties. The pipe bomb stunt, and the political decor of his live in vehicle can be seen as a cry for attention, an attempt to gain some measure of status and respect in a society which does not give it automatically, which rewires some tangible accomplishment. Showing up at the beach in late middle age wearing tight tank tops does not gain one status in America. he should have done that in high school. Admittedly, however, if it did anywhere, America is where it would be. The pipe bombs, the FBI assures us, were not phony. They were, however, ineptly made, as if their true intent was not to explode, but to draw attention. This guy wanted to either be caught, or be recognized, by somebody, anybody, for fighting his glorious war against liberals. He is an ultra conservative. Hatred of blacks, Jews, gays, liberals, women in power, the whole nine yards. That's what extreme conservatism becomes, (just ask the KKK), just as extreme liberalism becomes communist utopia. Cesar Sayoc could have taken pride in his cool name, and left it at that. The same is true of "Trump". Both men care more about adulation from others than about actual achievement, social concerns, or political agendas. No, Donald Trump is not responsible for Cesar Sayoc; not at all. But when the president of the United States applauds body slamming, leads chants of "lock her up", and encourages people to beat up other people, all of which he has done in front of millions of people, and then this overgrown little boy has Trump plastered all over his vehicle, and Hillary and Obama in cross hairs, and anger at the exact same things against which Trump has repeatedly railed, there is a connection, a tragic connection.