Lies, Lies, Lies but Mr. Trump Says…
By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart
As I sit in my Kailyard I often wonder about the future.
Lie, lie, lie …
It’s what he tells you…
I recently came across a quote which was attributed to Hannah Arendt. It was a quote that was on Facebook and made me realise that it was absolutely apt and ideal not just to be a meme but also to be the beginning of an article that talked about how Donald Trump has managed to lie to the American people and because they have taken that as truth, they no longer believe anybody else but him.
The problem was that the quote was not actually from Hannah Arendt. Yeah, that’s right, I did my research.
A few weeks ago, I also had a memory of a quote from Primo Levi which was that to remember that the Holocaust did not start with gas chambers.
I could find no evidence that it was ever said or written by Primo Levi, though there were many other quotes that were very similar.
I didn’t use either quote because I felt that by so doing I was going to misrepresent one of the titans of the 20th century in terms of literature and never want to do that. What it did remind me was that when we look into what it is that we’re going to use, that it is important upon those of us who write to make sure that we are at least accurate.
The post-truth era, which Donald Trump has managed to promulgate and indeed promote amongst Americans is something that is increasingly, incredibly difficult to accept. As America heads towards voting in the election coming up, I cannot understand why anybody would be looking at Donald Trump and thinking for any particular reason just why he is any better than anything else that may well be out there.
Of course, the Democrats, by putting Biden up against him and then changing horse mid-race didn’t avoid adding to the confusion. Mind you, Kamala Harris has come in and managed with a degree of acuity and some charm that she could be a very good president for the United States.
Of course, there are elements in her campaign and indeed her presence which challenged some Americans because she is both black and female. While you might have had a black president before in terms of Barack Obama there are a number of Americans in the United States who are not going to accept him or her as evidence of change within their country. In fact, they are going to use their very presence as evidence that something sinister is going on. It is for them some evidence that there is a woke culture that the color of your skin and indeed the gender that you portray is something that is going to ensure that you get some kind of advantage.
And as the Americans go to the polls to decide who is going to be the next president of the United States the worry globally and indeed from here in Scotland and the United Kingdom is that you are going to make the wrong decision in 2024. That you could reverse so much of the progress that has been undertaken and undergone throughout the world is something that worries us greatly.
When you read things like there are swing states where the Arab Americans are unlikely to vote for Kamala Harris because of the support that’s been given to Israel you understand why they might abstain but then you get horrified by the idea that they’re contemplating a vote for Trump. I simply cannot understand how you would ever contemplate voting for somebody who is quite clearly a massively more important supporter of your enemy.
But there you have it. Democracy throws these things up.
And democracy is put to the test twice in 2024, in Georgia. One is a state in America and the other a country in Europe.
Whilst Georgia in America is a swing state that will have influence over who it is that’s going to be your next president, in Europe Georgia the country’ who went to war briefly for five days in 2008 against Russia have just finished their plebiscite to decide whether they will look to the west or they’re going to return to look to the east.
There are very real concerns in Georgia, the European one, that the ruling party has managed to manipulate things to ensure that they are going to continue to delve into Putin’s pocket.
It is something that is very likely to be supported in the other Georgia in the United States if they support Donald Trump who is quite clearly also in Putin’s pocket. In Joe Rogan’s podcast, which lasted three hours and made Trump late for a tiny rally thereafter in a swing state, he revealed that he spoke to Putin all the time. Of course, any world leader who is in power should have some form of communication with other world leaders, but the biggest worry is always that he is not only controlled but also hoodwinked by people who happen to have a greater sense of their own power than he has ever had of his. Trump’s ego has always been something that has been in the way of understanding any form of self-regard or indeed any form of self-criticism.
The idea of self-criticism is something that Donald Trump, not only has a problem with, but also has a problem with anybody else having any form of criticism for him. He is well able to blame everybody else apart from himself over what it is that went wrong. One of the key things in the Joe Rogan three-hour podcast was that he kept on complaining that his biggest mistake was he appointed the wrong people. Of course, he went on to tell us who they were. Of course, the fact that he made the decision to employ them was never on the table as something that he would admit to as a fault. It was, however, something that was a mistake, an accident, something that he was perhaps fooled into because the people around him happened to be more competent than he was.
But don’t imagine that at any time he is going to admit that. He never will. And if you vote for Donald Trump in 2024, which, by the way, it is your absolute right to do so if you would think that he is the best, then I have to say to you that there is a possibility that what your country is going to look like in 2026, 27, 28 and certainly by 29 is something that you will simply not recognize just now. It shall be divided. It shall be minimized on the world stage. It shall be left bereft of hope.
It shall have people in power that will frighten not only the horses, but every single immigrant that lives under your flag. And let’s be clear, you are all the sons, and daughters of immigrants.
And you can quote me on that… But only after you do your research…
Hannah Arendt’s actual quote about constant lying is, “This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore”.
A view from the new Kailyard or, how you look over there, from over here…
(Kailyard n. a cabbage patch, often attached to a school of writing – the Kailyard School – a genre of overly sentimental and sweet Scottish literature from the late 19th century where sentimental and nostalgic tales are told in escapist tales of fantasy, but here we seek to reverse it by making the Kailyard Observations of effective invective comment from that looks not to return to the past but to launch us into a better future by the one Donald worth believing…)
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