The Hypocrisy Of Most Anti-Trump Crusaders Shouldn’t Be Lost On Us — But There Is A Path Forward
Most of the people concerned with rising up against trump’s authoritarianism previously allowed it to flourish when it was convenient for them. It’s easy to say “I told you so” and point the finger, but how do we actually make meaningful change?
It’s no secret that Donald Trump is a wretched human being both inside and outside of the political arena. He is a narcissistic man-child who bullies anyone in his way, with a history of con artistry, an adjudicated rapist with various accusations of sexual assault, and a several decades long connection to an international sex trafficking, pedophile ring, and blackmail operation via the Jeffery Epstein Network which his administration only recently covered up.
Lifelong constitutional scholars such as the impeccable attorney John W Whitehead, the founder of The Rutherford Institute, confirm that Donald Trump is violating the constitution and the scope of presidential power and ethics at every possible turn. Weaponizing federal law enforcement like a despotic strong man with zero concern for civil liberties, further empowering the American police state and expanding the prison industrial complex. All the while bolstering illegal mass surveillance while marching the nation down the road to technocracy.
Still, the fact is and always has been that Trump is merely the naked face of an empire that otherwise keeps itself hidden under a mask. Most so-called leftists would have you believe that Trump’s particular brand of authoritarianism is some exception to the norm, an atypical monstrosity that deviates from the status quo. In reality Trumpianism is just the manifestation of the status quo brought to the forefront for all to see.
It is the exacerbation of what always has been. Trump is crude and brash with his despotism whereas previous figures like Barack Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton and so on were always relatively prudent and well spoken with theirs. The kind of despotism of decades past came with an eloquence that brought with it a kind of acquiescence.
Trump and MAGA have played the role of facilitating the great inversion — a controlled opposition / psychological operation creating an astroturfed faux populist movement characterizing the “far right” as the pro-traditionalist and anti-establishment counterbalance to the equally controlled and manufactured “radical left”. Two sides of the same paradigm with their own fake counterculture.
Any serious student of how the system works understands that the United States of America is not a democracy, it is not a representative Republic. It can be categorized as many things; an oligarchy, a kleptocracy, a kakistocracy, most recently an algocracy. No matter how one chooses to describe it, none of these are forms of fair and just representative government. Because such a thing is an oxymoron. Government by its very nature is a monopoly on violence, no matter which form it has taken throughout the 6000 plus years of the development of the human species – republic, democracy, monarchy, dictatorship and the like – centralized collectivist hierarchical systems of control have always been inherently exploitative, abusive, and oppressive to some portion of the population they rule over. Statism is the ugly blight of our species.
In America, much like most places in the world, elections are little more than charades cleverly designed to give the masses some illusion of participation. On smaller more local scales they may indeed still maintain some semblance of meaningfulness, but on the national stage it’s all smoke and mirrors.
Presidential candidates are selected by who among them will best serve the interests of the ruling class, corporate donors, and the various agendas of round table groups that actually plan policy such as the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and others. Surely among these individuals and groups there are internal rivalries and conflicts between opposing factions over who gets to control what, after all the government operates as an organized crime syndicate. Much like the Mafioso there will always be contention over which families get the largest slice of the pie, but at the end of the day they are all still one Cosa Nostra. Such as the nature of government.
Far too many people suffer under the delusion that once Trump is gone everything will be okay. It is the Stockholm syndrome of the average statist that employs the selective memory to believe such a fallacy. Illegal mass surveillance did not suddenly begin under Trump. Neocolonialist / imperialist war mongering is not a product of the Trump system. The abuses of the police state, the institutionalization of systemic racism, the militarization of federal law enforcement, the attacks against human rights and civil liberties, the erosion of constitutionality, the economic deterioration and the exploitation of the working class under the yoke of state capitalism — all of these things and more predate the Trump era and have progressively intensified over the decades of every administration for two and a half centuries.
We’ve had a few weeks to ruminate on the national No Kings Day protests, uprisings from coast to coast in nearly every major city that saw millions take to the streets to express their dissent against the despotism of the second trump term. Chock full of various establishment organizers and corporate donors to make it possible…
What stands out in this author’s mind, having written political commentaries for nearly a decade, is the somber realization that a large portion if not a vast majority of these very same people now suddenly concerned with opposing monarchical dictates were the same ones who not only sat back and allowed many of these same abuses to be carried out in previous administrations but just as recently as a few years ago were all too willingly accepting of the draconian policies of the COVID-1984 scamdemic.
Forced isolation. Quasi martial law under lockdown mandates. Economic destruction in the form of mass business closures. Forced medical interventions of experimental injections, segregation in the form of vaccine passports, and let us not forget the talk of quarantine camps. Many of the same people who are today very rightly aghast at the Trump administration’s erection of a concentration camp in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” would have gleefully stood by as those of us who refused to take the COVID jab were rounded up and forced into a similar facility.
What’s more, those of us who did express dissent, stand up, speak out, and protest in mass against these blatant acts of tyranny were smeared and demonized in every conceivable way. And the irony is not lost on the fact that a good majority of these policies although primarily enacted during the Biden administration were in fact policies initiated under Trump in the final year of his first term.
Similarly, many of those who rightly oppose the US supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza gleefully supported the US / NATO proxy war in Ukraine. Many who speak of the Palestinians right of resistance to settler colonialism and the horrors of ethnic cleansing will ignore the CIA backing of Nazi militias in Ukraine, NATO expansionism, the blatant overthrow of their government in the 2014 Maidan coup and the ethnic cleansing of the Donbas region that ultimately forced Russian intervention. The examples could go on.
There is a plague of logical inconsistency that coincides with partisan tribalism.
That in and of itself is the crux of the problem that we face not only as a nation but as human beings. Identity politics and tribalist mindsets that separate us from logic and reason, empathy and compassion, and hinder our ability to evolve as a species and progress as a society. We are beyond the time for people to realize that there is no political solution to the problems that we face. The downfall of Trump and the MAGA cult will not “return things to normal”, though it may bring some semblance of normalcy to those who view the abuses of previous administrations as being an acceptable status quo. Government abuse is never normal nor acceptable.
All of the problems that we face collectively trace its roots back to statism and the false belief in authority, the nature of rule without consent. If we wish to free ourselves from the restraints that bind us as a civilization and make us beholden to the tyrannical agendas of unelected bureaucrats we have to abolish the notion of “the right to rule”. There is no legitimacy in the schemes to control peaceful people against their will. An ideological reckoning must occur wherein the masses realize there is no political solution to the greatest threats that we face. The Trump administration is only able to commit its litany of heinous actions due to the decades worth of excessive overreach of powers accrued by previous administrations.
So what do we do? When people who previously believed in the political process realize that it’s all a rigged game what they need more than anything is to know that there is a way out. Regardless as to whether or not they fall on the right or left side of the false dichotomy what’s important is waking people up from the falsehoods of statist ideology, and tantamount to that is reaching out with an olive branch to provide REAL solutions.
That begins with the empowerment of the self. On the personal level part of that involves healing, and the humility to admit that most of us, including you the reader, harbor traumas that need resolutions and learned behaviors that need to be unlearned. Introspection on one’s values and ethics, taking accountability and aligning those positions with morally and logically consistent principles.
The other part is putting those principles into action. Getting involved in voluntary movements and communities that prioritize the individual liberty of everyone and seek to create parallel societies that rely on ingenuity and innovation, decentralized systems, independent networks, and individual sovereignty, personal privacy rights, countereconomics and voluntary markets in order to be your own leader and opt out of the authoritarian institutions we live under. The strategy to do this is called Exit and Build.
It’s easy to get caught in the trap of calling out each other’s political hypocrisies, but what does that actually serve us if it doesn’t move us all forward? A better world is possible if we begin taking the action to be the change we want to see. Stop waiting for saviors and start to exit and build today.
