Enlighten the righteous and wicked alike.

Epistle to America.

Throughout history it has often been wondered why, at unaccounted times, a culture seemingly so successful apparently goes barmy and displays such extremes of divergent actions and views that the entire edifice of its civilisation is placed under threat to the point of allowing, what might be consisted of self inflicted destructive acts and within a short period unravels, for a time, its social cohesion and civility of purpose. Baring any direct external pressures that fall upon the culture to coerce a reaction like say resolute fractional conflict, resource depletion, environmental degradation or war; the point of the cause of the breakdown is often placed in the persona of usually one or a caucus or renegade actors with the application of a position of power and influential force.

Some examples might be, in recent times; Hitler of Germany, Poll-Pot of Cambodia, Radovan Krardiz el al - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Balkans war), Saddam Hussein - Iraq, the Hutu political elite of Rwanda, or Bashar al-Assad of Syria. On anyone of these or others of singular note may be placed the blame for taking their country to insanity and there is no comfort in thinking that as these countries so afflicted where mostly not westernised without ingrained democratic principles. That the insanity was / is localised and is unlikely to be a script followed by more stable countries is a moot point. However, transient comfort can be taken in the belief that the same difficulties cannot unexpectedly arise elsewhere, yet it ought not to be taken as permanent state. 

On 8.11.16 President Trump is likely to take the white house of the USA. It may be by a small margin but it will be enough to give him executive power and wield it in a way no one has ever done before. To get to this state, the divisive nature of America politics and its toxic exposition played out to a world audience leaves many astounded, not just at the deviousness falsity of the whole campaign but more importantly the exposed fracture of the internal civil structure that has created such subversive covert apprehension. This is a dangerous energy that may not be easily managed away.

Although just now it seems that Senator Hillary Clinton has a small lead, the polls do not really address why people vote one way or another and of prime importance is the secret undecided’s. Despite the sound policies that she has mentioned against Trumps crass inane policy vapid verbosity; it is astounding to see how easy people can be swayed with verbal sound bites that only have a visceral meaning yet resonates to produce such diversity of opinion and eventual choice. He plays to the American dream, individuality and the disfranchised; she plays to inclusiveness, the unity of purpose and those of considerate nature. All avoid the state of the American social order and why/how it has fallen into the position of a third world disunity culture. It is on that basis that Trump is president.

It will not matter if, by some miracle, Hillary Clinton pulls a slim win. The damage to the consciousness of the country is done and the system will not let her confront the causes of it.

This proposed outcome, from the voting turnout is driven by one factor; one might call it (using a colloquial intemperate expression) the ‘fuck off’ factor. Too many people now and a rapidly rising number are being disconnected from the ability to be self sustaining; they have no stake in the wealth of the nation and have been cast aside as unimportant by the rapacious economic machinery. Far too much wealth is coalescing in the hands of a few, individually and corporately, taking no interest in the mess they are primarily creating believing that it is their right to be privilege in the ‘free market’. It does seem that a turning point is being reached. More people are becoming angry at the inability to change a system that allows no substantive transformations and it may be that they are now looking for a lightning rod to incinerate the perceived causes of economic ossification - the rich get richer while the working and poor get less.

Trump may not be the best qualified, indeed there is nothing to mark any competence within him but he will get the ‘fuck off’ vote to the establishment and all in it, to cause change. Any change will do and so the insanity begins.        

Why should rational people take a decision that, with a balanced view appears to be against a better judgement. With the USA in such precarious divisive position; one might offer that it is down to a lack of information intelligence, a situation where the individual arrives at a conclusion that is bereft of salient factors that have a decisive bearing on the way a consideration is reached. Such ‘factors’ are then formulated into a view that may have little relevance to the situation being decided upon. Such situations and decisions are never just a binary choice; Him or Her, IN or Out, Britain in the EU or Britain out; the winner does not take all with them and on small margins would do well to look to the strength of the plethora of reasons that eventually construct a resolution for one choice over another. This construction of choice division is no different to the UK’s “Brexit means Brexit” dogma now reaching its precipice and the way it was built up into the referendum, was, like now in the US, an extraordinary fabrication of a stage set piece. The result of that process too as in the UK was a ‘fuck off’ vote by an element of populace in discrete areas but unlike the US where one can wave a gun and constitution about if all else fails, over time the English terrorist can only do a useless peaceful demonstration against the stupidly of the disconnected unconcerned government and elites. People are revolting across the democratic spectrum of the west; if you are not worried now you will not realise what is imminent.  

© Renot

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