Donald Trump is claiming to be in the 2012 Presidential Race. I don’t know what to think about that. Trish tells me he can’t be serious – that between his well-documented philandering, multiple wives, and potentially controversial financial wheeling and dealings, there is no way he would be willing to be dragged through the proverbial mud. She suspects it is all a big publicity stunt, another opportunity for the Donald to stand in front of cameras, and a boost for his popular Celebrity Apprentice series on television. She’s pretty smart, and probably right; but still, the announcement by the Donald, and some of his ensuing interviews, leave me troubled.
What bothers me more than any of Trump’s personal shenanigans is the world view that he holds. It is an old-school, reptilian mentality – eat or be eaten, kill or be killed, screw the other guy before he screws you first. He avows a philosophy of greed and materialism, and holds that his financial successes mean that he is, by extension, a successful person, a worthwhile human being, a “winner” in the game of life.
I don’t share the Donald’s shallow, harmful view of human-kind. I’m sure in his day to day life that he saunas with other reptiles and they all slither and dither and enforce one another’s vicious perception of the world around them. People are so good at seeing what they want to see, and filtering out any information that counters our established world view; or that reflects badly on our persons.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
You know if we look back on the 2008 election, we had a President, and especially a Vice-President, that synched up more closely with the beliefs Trump is espousing, and we, as a country, didn’t like the direction they took us in. We elected a man who was more willing to compromise. The right has done their damnedest to paint Obama as a radical leftist – but he isn’t. If there is a complaint to be made against Obama, it is that he capitulates too often to the demands of the right. But that’s who we wanted, and that’s who we got. Now people want to go backwards and try the path of the lizard again? No thanks.
If the Republican Party is leaning towards the lizard brain, the Democrats are in full monkey-brain mode – scattering and chattering, unable to stay on task or in focus. The positive for the Republicans is that they have a plan. This puts them ahead of the Democrats. The problem is that the Republican’s plan is a shitty one that funnels all the wealth up the corporate chain to the top reptiles.
We are entering into a crucial era wherein we need to leave behind the monkey brain, and the lizard brain, and tap into the new emerging human brain. I don’t think we can look to
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