Wrong By Being Right

It's a question I like to revisit, aimed at all those people who voted for those so called 'anti politics' candidates who were going to transform the political process and hand power back to the people: just how is that all going?   I mean, that Bolsnaro in Brazil - he's just knocking it out of the park isn't he?  Just look at the way he has the pandemic in hand, not to mention that great job he's doing with the environment.  The Amazon rain forest is safe in his hands, eh?  Then there's Boris Johnson.  I remember people who voted for him telling me that they didn't care that he was a fornicating, incompetent morally degenerate serial liar, racist and homophobe, because he'd 'get things dome'.  Well, he certainly has.  Unfortunately, adequately dealing with a pandemic isn't one of them.  Of course, when they said 'get things done', what they meant was 'get Brexit done'.  Which, sadly, he is, by driving the UK to a 'no deal' Brexit, (just what an economy already severely weakened by the pandemic needs), despite not having any worthwhile trade deals with anyone else signed up. 

The elephant in the room here is obviously Trump.  You know, I remember four years ago various Americans boasting of how they were going to vote for Trump as they considered Hilary Clinton too much of a corporate shyster and an 'insider' who wouldn't act in the best interests of ordinary people.  So, again, how's that worked out?  Still happy with your choice of supposed 'outsider'?  Thousands dead as a result of Trump's shambolic response to the pandemic, race war, class war, pretty much real war, being raging on the streets of many US cities as Trump deploys his thugs against the American people.  Not only are protesters being snatched from the streets by shadowy and apparently unaccountable secret policemen, but now we have the Fat Boy calling for November's election to be postponed because he's so far behind in the polls, sorry, because of the non-existent threat of electoral fraud if the pandemic forces states to use postal ballots.  Yet there are still people out there who support him, who act as apologists for his every atrocity, even as the US slides toward totalitarianism on his watch.  What's wrong with them?  OK, I know that some of them are those tiresome professional contrarians who will automatically say 'black' if you say 'white', but what of the rest?  Some, I have to assume, are themselves budding fascists, who approve of Trump's increasingly extreme reactions against the very concept of opposition and protest.  Others, one has to assume, are just plain stupid.  But least he isn't Hilary Clinton, eh?  Let's all thank God for that.