Seeing Past What Trump Shows Us

IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE a practicing rocket scientist, nor to even be pursuing a degree in rocket science from an accredited institution of higher learning, to discern that President Trump does not like being investigated. More than eleven hundred times he has called the Mueller investigation a "witch hunt", even as Mueller hunts down one witch after another, all close associates of Trump, as the investigators get ever closer to the truth. Trump's method of operation is to constantly denigrate the people investigating him, hoping that his political base will continue to support him,and join him in attacking the many investigations as criminal conspiracies out to get Trump. He does not like for people to find out things about him other than the things he can control, the things he wants people to know about. He wants people to know about him, most definitely, he wants fame, badly, but only the information he chooses to release; his great wealth, his gorgeous wife of the decade, his fame. He wants to be seen and known for glamorous, powerful, conspicuous success. But when it comes to actual transparency, to having people uncover and reveal facts about him without his permission, he is adverse to the point of terror, like a rat trapped in the corner by a hungry cat. At times Trump even wants certain individuals to know that because of his fame and fortune, he can do whatever he wants with any woman of his choice. But he does not want even his license to prey on women at will to be known beyond a select few guys in the locker room. He doesn't want anyone to see his tax returns, his affairs with purchased women, or the details of his business dealings, personal finances, or legal entanglements. He wants us all to see the glittering, gleaming buildings, but not the exhausted, underpaid workers who built them. The pattern is clear, unmistakable. And this is precisely what his supporters want as well. They want somebody to admire, somebody to look up to who has Hollywood glam, beautiful wives, great self made wealth, big strong talk about a great America and how great his followers are to follow him. A symbiotic relationship of adoring Trump wannabees, vicariously being Trump. Trump's supporters don't want Trump being investigated by people who don't admire him, by people who are looking only for facts and not fantasy glamour, any more than Trump does. They don't want their little Trump bubble to burst. Its a fascinating psychology. America is the land of fantasy and dreams, where reality is whatever we choose it to be. The United States of Amnesia. Trump's followers are the most angry Americans, having been failed by reality, seeking a different, alternative reality. Their anger is palpable. They choose their enemies almost as if by lottery, and seek to destroy them with an alternative reality. Their enemies are Trump's enemies, and they can be destroyed by locking them into an alternative reality. Hillary Clinton must be locked up for deleting emails. The media is all fake, everything it says negative about Trump is a lie, and a conspiracy between liberals, a deep state of some sort lurking in the shadows all works together to destroy Trump, who is innocent of any wrongdoing, the victim, as he says, of presidential harassment. Among Trump supporters are the folks who believe that the Lord is going to return soon, any time now, to rapture the righteous, who happen to be the supporters of Trump, into heaven. Trump, who is God's chosen president, leads them into heaven, making climate change, which is a liberal lie, irrelevant. Among Trump supporters are folks who believe, or want badly to believe, that extraterrestrials are conspiring with European trillionaires to use the Federal Reserve system to achieve a global dictatorship which will enslave us all. Trump supporters, like Trump, prefer their invented world of fantasy to demonstrable, verifiable reality, reality such as Michael Cohen and his extensive knowledge of who and what Trump actually is. Trump followers are small con men following the big con man. Why don't Trump and his supporters simply say: "Investigate all you want!" FBI, Democrats, media, Congress, investigate Trump to your heart's content, every last nook and cranny, we don't care!" the answer is simple. Trump and his followers have not yet taken sufficient leave of their wits to fail to realize that beneath their facade of fantasy there hides the truth, and the truth is not pretty, is in fact very, very sordid, the truth about themselves and about Trump. The truth would land Trump out of office and in prison. And the truth would require Trump's supporters to finally accept that they are following, sycophant-like, a mirage, a scam, a fabricated alternative reality. And that would be much too much for them to bear. The fact that the truth is going to be revealed and fully exposed is their worst fear, and that is why they cling to their pretension that it will never happen, and should never happen. But the dirty little secret is that it will happen, the truth will be brought forth, and when it does, Trump and his supporters are going to burst like a cheap hot air balloon, full of nothing but hot air. And their reaction will be the same as always,:denial. Denial of reality, and the rock solid certainty that they were attacked and unfairly destroyed by a mob of hateful, conspiring enemies of Donald Trump. It will be a sad spectacle to behold, like it already is.