Everyone wants a hero.
It’s a means of wanting change and glory-supporting the figures that appear to do it.
Trump, as we speak, is getting marvellous recognition for his Tariff treatments (and of course great scorn). But, as excellently pointed out by Neil Oliver, is tweeting “Oooops!” at recent bomb attacks some where in the Middle East.
Now, don’t be lazy, do go back over any of my social media and see evidenced my support for Trump in 2016 and for 2020. Don’t write me off as a ‘Never Trumper’ but do, please, observe my change of mind when he blatantly praise the jab, dubbing himself ‘The Father’ thereof.
There is any number of other socio-political figures I could mention here but you know their names. You are starting to get it.
“Every hero becomes a bore at last.” – Emerson
They all reveal their colours. It’s why I don’t vote, “Uhhhh, then you can’t complain, Martin, if you don’t have skin in the game.” I respectfully remind people it’s the right TO vote not HAVE TO vote. If you are mandated to do anything, it’s not a right, it’s a coercion and, besides, there’s no one to vote for. I believe politics is the biggest scam going.
You’re just voting for who’ll steal from you. No matter how good looking your rapist and how big his dick is, you’re going to get shaft and bleed out!
Of course, these people get away with it out of compliance and the belief of the masses that they have your best interests at heart. In his Discworld series, Terry Pratchett reveals the method that ‘gods’ get more powerful the more people believe in them. The politicians need us more than we need them and most of the last few centuries’ talk has been how to limit or expand that power.
Let’s be real, anyone who wants a position of such power over you and your life is either, beyond measure, already corrupted or easily corrupted in not much time.
In being called naive so often for unreasonable opinions, I turn the mirror and say don’t be so naive that you believe you’d be the benevolent dictator. You really wouldn’t.