Trump, Seeking the Bottom

WHEN I BECAME AWARE of the alleged fact that the president of America, while visiting Japan, insisted that the warship bearing John McCain's name be hidden from view, it brought to mind, first, the famous and mysterious "Philadelphia Project", according to which, during world War Two, attempts were allegedly made to render a warship invisible. Then it brought to mind far less appealing thoughts. Evidently, the order pertaining to the U.S.S. McCain actually was given; if not, it certainly sounds plausible, considering the president's long standing hatred of the late, great Senator. Trump's hatred of McCain is among the most petty, despicable manifestations of one of the most despicable people (Trump) to ever do damage to the United States. You'll recall that Trump denigrated McCain for having been captured in combat. He also called McCain a "loser"; a laughable comment from a laughable excuse of an American citizen. Appropriately enough, the very circumstances that made McCain a genuine hero to his country are what the president cited as reason not to consider him a hero. Heroes do not get captured, and do not become prisoners of war and suffer and amazingly somehow endure torture for years, declared the reprobate in chief. The source of Trump's hatred? Only that McCain told the truth about Trump's policies, disagreed with them, found the president's behavior disgusting, particularly the constant lies, and was not afraid to say so on the floor of the United States Senate. To arouse the ire of Donald Trump, one need only disagree with him, one need only fail to lavish praise upon him. Comparisons of Trump to Hitler were once somewhat humorous; they no longer are. Now, they have become deadly serious, by virtue of being accurate. Trump is a demented narcissist, whose only concern is for his personal fortune, and for the amount of veneration he can get from adoring sycophants. Trumps hatred of McCain is Appropriate, because whatever Trump says, the opposite is usually appropriate and true, and whatever he does, the opposite is usually the noble and appropriate course of action. It is not possible to explain admiration and support for Trump by referring to patriotism, but only through anger, hatred, and pathologically distorted mentally. It becomes necessary to conclude that Trump, his assistants, his associates, and his millions of supporters are seriously diseased emotionally and intellectually, and are in fact, as Noam Chomsky points out, criminally insane. Those who admire and support President Trump do so because the president's hatred of immigrants, his racism, his lack of compassion for anyone, and his pathological need to control and abuse women reflects their own twisted thinking. That Trumps' support derives largely from the far right of the political spectrum, and particularly from devout evangelical Christians exposes the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the conservative Christian movement. Indeed, when we finally rid ourselves of this demented leader, we must not celebrate nor congratulate ourselves, but rather, we must look deep inside ourselves and ask: how could we ever have allowed such a thing to happen at all?