Thursday 3 March 2016

We will never be here again..Trump and Cruz



Trump scares me very much. And yet Ted Cruz scares me even more so . Trump is a billionaire out for himself and his ego. Trump is Biff from Back to the Future. His prejudice is that of the bully, the man who cares for nothing but himself. He would trample on every minority there is and yet his motivation is ignorance, poor judgement a lack of understanding and of empathy. Yet he has a skill like Farage of fooling the dispossessed, the oppressed and the poor to sound like a champion.

The threat are those who rise with Trump, the hard right, the racists and those who breath the air of Weimar. Even the elite of America's Republican Party are waking up to that whiff of Weimar and starting to understand the consequences of the racist, right wing, homophobic, sexist trail of gunpowder that they so carefully placed across the political landscape,

Ted Cruz is not stupid, he has the ideological belief of the evangelical right. He believes he has a personal relationship with a creator who to all intents and purposes is a celestial dictator. Many years ago Carl Jung warned us about men like Cruz . Jung called it possession and inflation. Its where a personal relationship with a conception of a creator leads us to believe that since we hear the voice of God we slip into believing we are God. That is far more dangerous than anything that Trump thinks.

Ted Cruz and Trump are a threat to those who are seeking to find their own identity, to celebrate their identity and to live freely. Cruz is someone who is an idealogical threat, a true believer and a stalking horse for a crusade aagainst those who are not White, Anglo-Saxon , conventional and male.

Cruz shows clearly why the ancients saw their gods as capricious and limited to the world The word they used the name “Theos“ implied that their gods were limited and tied to the world. Someone who has great power and beleives that they know the mind of and all powerful deity is more of a threat than a fool who is a billionaire. We should all remember the words of Homer

The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again”

We should awaken to his words


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