Frank's Musings

Trump’s statement that scientists don’t know what’s happening to cause California’s wildfires made me realize that he believes his own BS. This is alarming Trump is not irrational. He’s just maniacal.

Trump lives in a world of his own making, without regard to what most of the rest of us have learned is real. He and most of his supporters seem also to live in worlds that have major inconsistencies with what mankind has determined advances civilization.  The curious thing is that they don’t have to agree on either Trump’s definition of reality, or with that of any other of Trump’s supporters. What they all agree on is the irrelevance a common definition of reality.  They believe that one is a sucker to accept other people’s weltanschauung.   

Other members of Trump’s coalition of supporters apparently have decided that the disruptive policies of a Trump administration created conditions that were conducive to the accomplishment of their own individual goals.  They have access to capital, or they have the skills to thrive in a minimally regulated economy.  Moreover, they are not burdened by values that require expense to uphold, e.g. non-materialistic objectives such as human equality and justice.  They have no long-term view and always ask the question, “What’s in it for me?”

This coalition of solipsists and opportunists is probably not more numerous than half of eligible voters, even in states with a combined electoral college majority.  They proved themselves, however, to be more motivated to cast their ballots in 2016 than the losing sid.  Fortunaately, the Biden-Harris campaign barely found a way to convince the public of its responsibility to participate in the election and preserve the efficacy of our democratic form of government.

It was most encouraging to hear the Biden administration referred to in th news as the true heir to Roosevelt’s New Deal,