(So stop pretending that he isn’t.)
A while back, we’re talking many years, a judge told me I was crazy and I needed to sober up and get help. Back in those days, (2002 or thereabouts), I was able to check into a rehab center here in town and get help with vocational training too. That judge changed my life. I wonder if he’s still alive. I wonder if he likes trump.
When someone is out of their mind, no one is doing them service by pretending they are sane. No one actually likes trump, so no one cares about doing him any service. It’s easy to understand. However, it is wrong.
When we poke fun of, or let insane people think they’re the boss just to keep from conflict, we lose our own humanity. There’s a word for treating people that way, it’s called inhumane. That means we lose something of ourselves when we partake in treating trump’s words as entertainment. They’re evidence of senility. They are not entertainment.
I’m a Bipolar person and I’ve been hospitalized a few times. At no point did anyone entertain my fantasies of grandiosity. I guess I’m not wealthy enough, or maybe it’s because I don’t own a suit anymore. Whatever the case, people “play along” with trump in a way they never played along with me. I think it is because folks in this world actually love me, at least three of them. I doubt that’s the case for trump.
You may ask, “How do we not act like he’s sane?” I’m glad you asked that. I hope Kamala Harris reads this because she apparently doesn’t know the answer too. It’s simple. When a crazy person is going nuts on you there’s only one message, “get that person to the hospital.” That gets them the help they need, and it gets them away from folks they may harm. That is not the democratic strategy at the moment, but it should be. Instead, democrats from the candidate to the popular media are talking about what trump says to get points. Trump is going to say some crazy shit. It’s no surprise because the man is obviously insane.
Democrats may lose because they didn’t want to be rude or truthful. We have to be willing to be both when crazy fascists are taking over the place. When you think about the quantity of people who either don’t know, or are pretending not to know trump is insane, it is mind-blowing. I don’t know what they could be watching. Every time I cast a glance his way he looks and sounds like a mental patient. If you consider Kamala Harris and whether or not she knows he’s insane, why wouldn’t she? And if she does, why doesn’t she act like it? I do not like imagining the answers to either one of those questions.
Trump is not a star, or a celebrity in the traditional sense. He has no talent for making money, or art, or public speaking. Whatever people see when they look at him, they are seeing in their head. It is something they “believe” him to be, not what is actually there. The reality of the situation is he’s nursing home material. If you don’t agree, check your eyes.
