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The Madness that is Trump [1]

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Date: 2023-08-04

I consistently hear from Trump people that they have no problem with Trump’s lies because it is obvious that our government has always lied to us. Having grown up in the Viet Nam era, I have no argument with the fact that our government has and probably will continually offer lies as a means of covering up incompetence. When you have a system that is this large managing these many resources with thousands of people working for it and depending upon its financing, our taxes, to support their families, mistakes are going to be made and efforts to cover them up will often occur. If the government is asking you to surrender your life, as they did in Nam, for their incompetence….well….that’s another problem. We fought against these “terrorist efforts”, as they might call it now, and some of us were able to survive that massive disaster. So, I can understand the people’s distrust of their governing body and support the necessary vigilance to protect our lives and families from the overzealous mammon-oriented military/industrial complex. However, the fact is we live in a country that has used “guns and butter” as its economic engine for many, many years. War is good business and we have a massive capital structure invested to support this effort. However, this Trump thing is a whole other problem. This is an evil vapor seeking to consume all of us.

Trump is the manifestation of our system and the embodiment of the “demon” that has historically been called “mammon”. (See Matthew 6:24) He is an unchained, coherent manifestation of an evil that has been unchecked and ignored for far too long. He justifies his behavior as simply one of survival at all cost against whatever or whoever seeks to destroy him. HIs behaviors and his ability to suck others unconsciously into his evil schemes are very indicative of a demonic presence.. People around him fall under his spell and become entrapped in his web of deceit because they have no defenses and they too are trying to survive against whatever or whoever seeks to destroy them...their perceived enemies. Evil always knows what to say and when to say exactly the right thing to capture your attentions and allow it to entrap your inner angel in the grasp of its dark embrace. Trump appeals to the darkest aspects of your shadow because he knows, instinctively, how to tap that inner fear. Does he know that what he is doing is evil manifested? Do the people around him understand? Probably not. Do the gang members of M13 think that they are evil? Well, maybe some of them understand. But, by and large, most of them claim that something dark and sinister seemed to overcome them when they joined the gang. (their words, not mine). Is this too far of a stretch of a metaphor to compare M13 with Trump? Not if you realize that the common thread is a demonic force that seeks its own survival at any and all cost. There are different degrees of everything and this includes evil.

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