Going Downhill, Fast

LIKE MANY PEOPLE OPPOSED TO TRUMP, I cringe whenever I hear of see him speak. I have come to associate his voice and face with perpetual prevarication. It seems to me, and to many others, that during his presidency his mental state has deteriorated significantly, and that his anger, delusion, paranoia and narcissism have all worsened. The number of lies has now exceeded twelve thousand, with no end in sight. I don't watch much television, and don't see Trump much on TV, but whenever I do, I am amazed at the arrogance and anger he exudes, and even more amazed at the obvious anger, arrogance, and ignorance of the mob which can always be seen in the background. The screen is always full of MAGA hats and screeching, grimacing, sneering faces. The anger and arrogance of Trump's assembled mobs is always palpable. Trump was elected because of right wing anger at a society increasingly moving towards progressive values, such as acceptance of gay and transgender people, acceptance of immigrants, and embrace of cultural diversity and religious diversity. Diversity is that last thing the Trump movement wants, in its desperate ill fated attempted coup to restor America to the nineteen fifties, culturally. I saw Trump screaming that whether you love or hate him, you have to vote for him, to save America, to save your 401K, which otherwise will "go down the tubes" as he put it. He sounds increasingly like some petty tyrant, like a little Hitler, spouting lies about his own greatness and his indispensable value to the country. Increasingly, as I observe Trump's behavior and the behavior of those who support him, I realize that America is as vulnerable as any other country to devolving into a tyranny, with the far right wing conservative christian evangelical mob, which forms Trump's most solid support because, imposing its twisted religious values upon the rest of us. It increasingly clear that the primary threat to America is not Trump, but rather, the people who voted for him and who still support him. Trump has already reneged on is promise to take action against gun violence, and his gun wielding evangelical gang are once again appeased. It might require a few dozen more mass murders committed by Trump followers to once again precipitate a serious conversation about gun control, something more than monitoring mental health and reducing video games. Conservatives, the Jesus, guns, and money crowd, will blame our American mass murders on anything other than assault weapons misuse. They love their precious guns too dearly. And Trump will continue to blame the media, the liberals, and immigrants for all of America's ills, while his supporters screech and shout his name adoringly, apparently totally unaware or unwilling to admit that most of our problems, including climate change denial and mass murder, originate with them.