Believing Anything, Denying Everything

IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that people who support Donald Trump, despite his daily effusion of pathological prevarication, are far more likely than stable, intelligent people to embrace a wide variety of insupportable viewpoints and beliefs. In essence, anyone willing to believe Trump is likely to be willing to believe anything, from clandestine extraterrestrial involvement in human affairs, to alien military installations on the ocean floor. Why not? Once you've decided to abandon reality, anything becomes possible. Trump supporters have fabricated, straight out of thin ether, what they term a "deep state", which is allegedly a vast conspiracy of mid level government employees determined to stage a coup to overthrow Trump. This mysterious, nefarious deep states is supposedly responsible for everything from initiating the biased Mueller investigation, to radicalizing the thoroughly corrupt anti-Trump intelligence gathering community, with the FBI included for good measure. Accordingly, the Federal Reserve, instead of merely being a banking system intended to stabilize the economy, becomes a top secret consortium of European billionaires, intent on establishing a global government and economic system. The solution is to abolish the Fed, reestablish the gold standard, and allow only the issuance of coins as money. Trump supporters, like Trump, tend towards paranoia, prevarication, and delusion, which belies their proclivity to fancy themselves stable geniuses with greatly enhanced perspicacity, fighting the noble fight against a corrupt, fake mainstream media and benighted liberal electorate. Never mind that Trump supporters in general are far less intelligent and educated than Trump detractors, who mercifully constitute a majority of the American population. The most remarkable characteristic of Trump supporters is not their lack of interest in reality, but their evident complete disregard for their role model's utter abandonment of it. To be a Trump supporter requires abandoning one's morals, to the extent that one has any, and rely on the pretense of possessing them. it would have been difficult but doable to overlook the shameful Access Hollywood display, one month before the election. Trump is not a sexual predator because the deep state, the fake news media, or legions of libelous liberals accuse him of it, he is a sexual predator because he bragged about being one, verifiably, with obvious pride. Trump supporters cling tenaciously to the laughable fiction that the Mueller investigation is a "witch hunt", echoing their hero's pathological garbage. With thirty seven indictments, all valid, to his credit, Mueller seems to be quite adept at hunting witches. The most wicked witch of all may even now be within his grasp; we'll find out soon enough. There may come a time, far in the future, when former Trump supporters who are still alive rue their past allegiance to a disgraced, failed president, a convicted, discredited criminal who, through sheer electoral desperation, anger, and ignorance, a minority of misguided Americans elevated to the nation's highest office, notwithstanding his being a confirmed reprobate. Or, typical of Trump's supporters today, they may choose to take the integrity free path of denying ever having been a part of it, much like post war Germans denied having supported Hitler. Future denial of complicity would be far more consistent with today's Trump supporters, much more in keeping with their now fully exposed lack of good character, their horrible judgment, and their moral and intellectual bankruptcy.