authoritarianism

The Truth

“The Leader lies.  That’s what he does.  The problem is not his lying but our lack of realizing that his lying is the solution not the problem.”

The Advisor paused, confused.

“Think about it.  The liar says what is untrue, knowing the truth.  But the leader.  No, the leader isn’t lying; he’s saying what he believes to be true.  To him it is true.”

The Advisor sipped his coffee and was silent.  He had learned to listen closely to The Assistant.

“The leader is a narcissist.  He’s a psychopathic liar, right?!”

“Right.”

“Well, what I’m saying is that the leader doesn’t know any of this.  He ‘knows’ he’s telling the truth.  He believes everything he says.  This is a weapon.  This is a gun to be used.  The Leader is delusional, yes, but he doesn’t think he’s delusional.  Hell, the thought never crosses his mind that he is lying.  To him there is no delusion.  It’s just us.  He lies blatantly and without reference to the Truth because to him what he is saying is true.”

Excerpts from The Trump Diaries: Criminal Use of the Law

When Donald Trump became president many of his previous immoral acts were called into question.  His answer was that he had done nothing illegal, he just knew how to game the system.  Unfortunately, he was correct. The Trump administration is often applauded for its dismissal of political, social, and cultural norms and traditions by his supporters, but this is a dangerous precedence because law is supposed to be based upon and acceptance of political normalcy.

With Trump and other wealthy individuals, law is a weapon wielded to undermine these norms that have been put into place to protect the public in order to open avenues for corporate profits. These profits are nothing more than legal thievery plain and simple; public monies given to corporations through subsidies and even bailouts for corporations that have done nothing but cheat their way to the profligate profits that they pay their executives and their shareholders, and now the politicians that they support.  The reliance upon public funding through subsidies and tax breaks has a long, sordid history and one that has been for the most part, hidden from the public eye but has, over time, been made legal.

The conservative movement, now headed by Donald Trump and his administrative cronies, are much more than a political movement.  They are a plutocratic movement whose sole motivation is authoritarian politics put into place to destroy the very thing that they claim to stand for: a fair free market economic system and the government that was put into place to create laws in order to protect people and not plutocrats. 

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