Their “end-game”. What and How. Substance and Style. Time for a counter-revolution.
It is not just what they are doing, it is also how they are doing it.
It is not just the substance of what they are trying to accomplish, it is also the style in which they are accomplishing it.
What is going on in the USA today is nothing short of a revolution; a revolution from the inside out; a revolution instigated by those in power to stay in power. But a revolution nonetheless.
Quite a bit of what – on the surface – the Trump Administration’s revolution is seemingly seeking to accomplish is indeed laudible. Peace in Ukraine and the Middle East. Efficiency in government. Control immigration. Focus aid for the poor. All sounds good. Who can disagree? If all the news you hear comes from the White House and it’s crony media (the new State media), and if then you listened to the President’s address to Congress, you would think that everything is going oh so well. Yet that address had by conservative estimates over one hundred right out lies and many more other distorted information.
And.
How they are going about – and their apparent end game – beyond their lies and distortions is, in a simple word: Evil.
Their evil is exasperated when they are pompous, self-righteous and arrogant in presenting their propaganda.
And it is evil. Dictating by fear, selective enforcement, creating chaos, disregarding established protocols – that is how they are getting things done. And that is mean-spirited, abusive, and cruel. And evil.
It is as if their enemies are the suppressed people of Gaza and Ukraine, the civil servants in the USA government, the undocumented, and the homeless.
Their enemies also include the LGBTQ+ community. According to the MAGAs and their perverse pseudo theology the LGBTQ+ community is “poisoning” the culture with the likes of drag shows and the talk of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Also their enemy? Science. Artists. And academia.
In a nutshell, their enemies are the defenseless and those who have heard the cry of the poor, the excluded, the sidelined, the bullied and all ‘others’.
How to explain this madness? According to the MAGAs, it all started with the revolutions of the 60’s.
It is those revolutions in the realm of politics, culture, governance and theology that they despise. It is the increasing participation of others in the political process they don’t like. It is the welcoming of more voices in the civic discourse they deplore. It is the expansion of empathetic government programs they want to eliminate. It is the theology that promotes preference for those in need they refuse to accept.
They clearly intend to revert back not to the 1950’s, but to the 1890’s. They seek to return to the times when philanthropy (very partially) took care of those in need, barons and oligarchs controlled the economy, labor was unorganized, expansion of empires was still a thing, faith was personal with no collective interests, and – most critical – power was the exclusive privilege of white, heterosexual (self identified) Christian men.
And that, my friends, is part of their ultimate end game.
[Luckily, in a country where the majority of men are indeed white, heretosexual, and (at least culturally) Christian , not all adhere to the MAGA mentality. Many of these white non-MAGA men are people of goodwill, critical thinkers, and empathetic to those unlike them. They are our friends 🙂 And to you we shout: ¡GRACIAS!]
What a macabre of a man! Pure evil. That President Donald Trump.
So he directs the USA government to radically stop providing life saving food and medicine to the poor throughout the world to starve and sicken them to death. After decades of building goodwill towards the USA with the provision of food and medicine for the poor, he is now killing the very people we have been helping. After decades of people looking to the USA as a beacon of hope he has turned the USA into an instrument of cruel, intentional desperation, and death. This time the killing not only by providing other government the war tools for the killing fields – unfortunately how the USA does so in many parts of the world and has also been doing for decades – but by yanking away food and medicine promised to the poor for meager survival. This is mean. This is cruel. This is evil.
This approach creates a new never seen hatred of the USA by people throughout the world. What was seen as a benevolent act of goodwill – in part countering the hatred instilled by the provision of the war machinery – has been turned into another despicable act of sheer evil: The intentional denial of life saving food and medicine for the poor for purely political gain.
Maybe his intent is to make sure the destitute throughout the world no longer sees the USA as that beacon of hope so they will not want to come here.
(Ah! That’s it! The man is a genius!)
He is creating a new world order where people despise the USA to the point that they no longer want to come here. And, he is dismantling the USA government to the point that it no longer works for the people already here.
It seems he is making good on his promise to fix the immigration problem by making the USA a place where no one is proud to live here, a place where the government controls the media, a place where the government is ran by oligarchs, a place where only white heterosexual (self identified) Christian man have political and capital power.
The end-game of their revolution?. A USA more similar to the likes of Russia than to the Western European nations. Gee, maybe we should be Russia’s friend now. Oh, wait, we already are? Yep. We are there. Their end-game is complete.
It is time to start the counter-revolution.