The Hypocritical Anti-Trump Outrage Mob
The Christian literary genre Apocalypse means to “unveil things previously hidden.” The advent of Donald Trump’s political rise serves as an unveiling of the hidden violence and vulgarity of the state.
.. He turns the lights on during their fantasy programming, so they scapegoat him for their own sins.
Hating Trump isn’t about his platform; all the other candidates are just as violent or worse. It’s about keeping up with appearances. Social status.
.. We’re more scared of associating with people who shop at Wal-Mart than hiring officials that carry out mass murder in our name.
.. What the Serious Adult voters righteously freaking out about Trump don’t seem to get is that that right there is called satire. Trump is mocking pandering itself.
.. Nietzsche is often cited as saying the sacred is whatever you’re not allowed to laugh at in a culture.
.. Scapegoating Trump will not erase our shame. Hiding state violence under the cover of politically correct speech codes will not, either. We need only to desire collective repentance – a changing of our minds – for the violence we commit against our neighbors.