{"id":1565,"date":"2016-03-03T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2016-03-03T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T11:50:39","slug":"what-comes-after-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/2016\/03\/what-comes-after-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"What comes after Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great debate, guys. Keep it up.<\/p><\/div>\n

As a foreigner looking at the US elections from Europe, I\u2019d like to give you my two cents. Bear with me: this is not another anti-Trump rant. Those are (too) easy, they\u2019re like making fun of Kanye West. We have too many of \u2018em, and they\u2019re not bringing anything to the plate apart from unnecessary pathos.<\/p>\n

Of course, we could act all morally superior and talk about his racism and what not, using high-falutin\u2019 words like \u201cpathos\u201d. What would that accomplish? We\u2019d be accused of being educated snobs (oooh! Education! Baaaad…) failing to grasp what Hegel called Zeitgeist or, in Trump-speak: ya just don\u2019t get it (Do check out my book, \u201cPhilosophy for Rednecks\u201d, featuring chapters like, \u201cKant\u2019s Categorical Imperative: Don\u2019t shoot me chickens if yer dont want me shootee yee chickens\u201d, \u201cPierce\u2019s Semiotics: Of course snow is white. Whatcher, stupid or somethin\u2019?\u201d and \u201cNietzsche\u2019s nihilism: Fuck all y\u2019all\u201d).<\/p>\n

My point is that I really don\u2019t understand the incendiary rhetoric around the guy. Trump didn\u2019t appear ex nihilo (sorry, \u201cout of the blue\u201d. Philosophy for rednecks, ch.3, p. 45). His ideas aren\u2019t some sort of alien virus infecting nice, amiable North Americans, \u00e0 la (sorry, \u201clike, ya\u2019know\u201d) Invasion of the body snatchers.<\/p>\n

No, Trump is the natural reaction to progressivism in any country. We have tons of those in Europe: people who arbitrarily determine what being \u201cFrench\u201d is and reject all changes to the status quo (sorry, \u201cthe way shit is\u201d. p. 76, op. cit.). You know who I\u2019m talking about: OLD PEOPLE.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s who is supporting the guy, people with OLD IDEAS. More like feelings, actually: Trump\u2019s \u201cideas\u201d are inexistent, inapplicable or downright stupid. The discussion moved away from rationality (sorry, \u201cthinking about stuff in a logical way\u201d) long, long, ago. Because, seriously: who watches Fox News? Do you know anybody who does? Of course not. It\u2019s OLD PEOPLE. I mean, I\u2019m forty years old, and I don\u2019t even watch television anymore. I barely turn it on when there\u2019s a live football match (wait, what is it? Snooker? Soccer? Whatever it is you\u2019re calling it over there nowadays). So you can imagine a 20-year old has no use, at all, for bullshit programs where idiots wearing ties go off about (snore) Ayn Rand or scream that Obama\u2019s from Africa.<\/p>\n

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Expert on Islam and Marxism takes a stand<\/p><\/div>\n

What I\u2019m saying is that it is normal that a bunch of conservatives feel uncomfortable with \u201cAmerica\u201d in 2016. They, just like conservative Europeans, want to go back to the idealized belle \u00e9poque of their youth (sorry, \u201cwhen we was kidz\u201d). This is a laughable state of affairs: everyone wants to go back to their America, which was \u201cthe real one\u201d, of course. Nobody says, \u201cAmerica was truly great in 1905. Then my Grandfather, Father and me came along and we fucked everything up. We were bad immigrants\u201d. Of course not, just as Europeans don\u2019t propose everything was fine and dandy when people were adoring the cult of Mithra but that afterwards, all those Christian migrants came along and lay that paradise to waste. \u201cMake Europe great again: vote Dionyssios Bacchanal party. Build a wall with Christians!\u201d.<\/p>\n

So now that I\u2019ve got your attention with my cynical tirade, let me lay it on you: This is what is going to happen.<\/p>\n

Trump isn\u2019t going to win (sorry, \u201cain\u2019t gone\u2019 win\u201d). Calm down. It ain\u2019t happenin\u2019 y\u2019all.<\/p>\n

Why? Because this is what has happened up until now: A bumbling buffoon makes President thanks to daddy\u2019s ties and takes to assaulting the English language, while sniggering at \u201cexperts\u201d and \u201cscientists\u201d \u2018cause, what do they know, right? You can fool me once, etc., that was funny and pathetic, but little more. Then, there\u2019s a reaction to -gasp- the first Kenyan guy President of the US. A Communist who doesn\u2019t want sick people to die because they\u2019re broke. And\u2026 Presto ! A soccer-mom appears lowering the bar to unthinkable depths, if that was possible. She doesn\u2019t understand how the most elemental things of the world work. She doesn\u2019t get, like, how old the world is, or where the countries are. But that was fun, right? Not fun-fun: sad-fun, like the Indonesian smoking baby, fun.<\/p>\n

Enter Donald, with his shenanigans and nonsense. Too ridiculous to be taken seriously. No content, no discourse, no rationality. Discussing Trump\u2019s \u201cplan\u201d is like talking about Bush Jr.\u2019s \u201cpaintings\u201d, or whatever those godawful tableaux were.<\/p>\n

So let me reiterate: it\u2019s OLD IDEAS upheld by OLD PEOPLE who are afraid of change. Change was fine when they were the ones managing it, in their youth. That was cool, this is too much.<\/p>\n

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Think of it: when your Grandmother was young, black people couldn\u2019t ride the bus wherever they wanted. Women didn\u2019t smoke. Drugs were illegal, and you barely had a handful of those around. Casual sex wasn\u2019t really a thing. Movies featured people prancing and dancing around every five minutes. Boring, 4×4 Black Sabbath rock was considered \u201cSatanic Music\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now, Grandma has a black President. Women file for divorce if they want to. People are scouring pharmacies for legal medicine that\u2019ll fry their brains, or snorting bath salts while listening to music with no lyrics. We have apps to hook up at any moment. Di Caprio got raped by a bear on screen for five minutes, in HD. People send dick pics via a cloud.<\/p>\n

Did you really expect Grandma to be fine with this? Of course she\u2019s going to rally around the white guy proposing walls and mass deportation. Heck, I\u2019ll probably be a reactionary douche in 40 years\u2019 time, too. When people are teleporting everywhere and wearing a Google Helmet all the time, sticking their penises in a socket to get off and injecting themselves with who knows what; of course I\u2019ll back a Candidate wearing a flannel shirt and proposing to go back to the \u201890s, whilst blasting Pearl Jam all over the crowd\u2026<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, not only is Trump not going to win, but young voters will age, and old ones will die.<\/p>\n

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Which brings me to my final point: what\u2019s the future of US politics?<\/p>\n

The GOP is a caricature of itself. They\u2019ve tea-bagged each other (wait, it\u2019s tea-bagging, isn\u2019t it?) into Trump land. None of them, not Cruz, nor Rubio nor the other clowns has a shot with young voters. They\u2019ve alienated the party and gone off the deep end.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the Right-Wing in North America needs a rebirth. If they ever want young people to vote for them again, they have to separate themselves from the clown car of the GOP. Republicans will just get worse: they went from \u201cW\u201d to Palin to Trump; Hulk Hogan will probably be the candidate in 2020.<\/p>\n

Personally, I\u2019m far from being Right-Wing. But I do believe certain ideas within the neo-liberal context deserve to be discussed. It\u2019s only by weighing these ideas, by confronting them and having a discussion, that I understand why I stand where I stand on certain issues. Unfortunately, as things are now, I don\u2019t have anything to discuss. Muslims? Mexicans? Walls? Borders? Don\u2019t be ridiculous.<\/p>\n

I miss you, Right-Wing. I miss your half-baked ideas about a State-less Market Economy, and your myths about rapey Architects being super smart and rising to success. That\u2019s why I think if you want to \u201csave America from Trump\u201d, you need to work on the after-Trump. You\u2019re screwed now: that ship has sailed. Hordes of Conservatives will abandon your egomaniacal sociopath if Hillary runs for the Dems. You\u2019ll have to live with that.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, you can prevent a Hulk Hogan 2020. Or a Kanye West. Something ridiculous and embarassing down those lines.<\/p>\n

The ball is in your court…<\/p>\n

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