I have watched a steady flow of Marvel moves over the last 30 or more years, and in those films there were always larger than life villains who were either diabolical clever or overwhelmingly strong and unstoppable. Seeing those morality plays of good verses evil, it never once occurred to me that the end of my country would come about not by great power or evil cunning, but by utter stupidity. And then by a person so abysmally ignorant and utterly brainless and with followers that are more than an equally clueless rabble that don’t have two brain cells to rub together.

The support of this one monumentally pathetic creature is so far from the narratives of those movies that it is impossible to believe it is all actually real even though it is right in front of our faces. The cult worship is totally deranged and unbelievable in its insanity, the idea of adding his face on the 500 dollar bill or on Mount Rushmore is exceptionally laughable to the rest of us relatively normal people. And yet, as his followers are being impoverished by massive tariffs, deprived of any normal protections or life-saving health care, they will always remain fanatically loyal. And let’s pick the most horribly under-qualified people to run the various governmental functions and agencies so they can create more confusion, what a great idea!

If you can cause enough chaos and keep everything and everyone agitated, then no one is going to organize against you and stop what you’re doing. No one is going to be able to think of how to fight against a constantly changing foe. They may not always know what they are doing to themselves and everyone around them, but why would they care, everyone’s misery is not their concern, too bad for all of us poor normal people, we should have been billionaires.

(It has become clear that the primary focus of the government is now fear, pain and utter cruelty, and we are barely 3 months into this endless purgatory of misery and pain. We need a few heroic people with ability and a plan. Photo, courtesy Marvel.)