We in the U.S. have deserved someone like Donald Trump as our
president for some time. Until now, by a string of luck, we had
mostly centrist presidents, both Republican and Democratic, some
with only a modicum of intelligence and humanity. With Donald
Trump, however, we finally ran out of luck and he is our sitting
president. Now, the spotlight is focused on him, but we easily
forget that he is, after all, a product of his own society. Trump's
rise to power owes itself to its own social-historical
circumstances: For decades now America's Consumer Society had
prepared the American voters, mostly White, to find someone like
Trump as their leader, by supplying them with around-the-clock
distractions that made them feel good, happy and falsely powerful.
Trump's ascendancy could not be possible without our consumption of
daily entertainment which makes us selfish, childish and idiotic
human beings. Such minds are easily affected by anxiety, anger and
vengefulness. In our daily sea of popular entertainment of mass
circulation, we have become trash cans--Mental Trash Cans--that
exist just to process trash that enters and leaves our minds almost
at the same time. This wasted mind, America's most celebrated
symbol of success that is created by its best and brightest, keeps
us away from one another as we become privatized citizens and
neighbors in our individual cocoons, lonely, scared, dumbed down,
living and dying our solitary unconnected lives. Into this vacuum
of intelligence and humanity, enter Donald Trump, the
entertainer-billionaire, now the President, who, with his brand of
populist Fascism, challenges the powers of entrenched Corporate
America and all of its mind-captivating arsenal. He successfully
conquered White Americans by separating them from non-whites, thus
revealing America's nationalism and racism, hitherto papered over
in its Liberal-Capital consumer paradise. The common Americans,
whether White or non-white, possess two prized items that Corporate
and Political America covets and wants to take from them, the
dollar and the vote: The American Masses, now as garbage-fed
children, are neither smart nor united enough to protect the two
critical weapons of their democracy. Trump's presidency proves it.
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