stupidity rules

I’ve been to most places around the world, including some danger zones – Egypt, Jordan, Oman and Israel. I’ve been to South Africa and Brazil. I’ve even travelled to the Iraq border and right through Mexico, through Zambia and Zimbabwe. The only place I’ve had a gun pulled on me is in the USA. That was before all this MAGA hate and the rise and empowerment of these gun-totin’ fascists.

When I lived there these racist extremists were a minority who were ridiculed and kept their heads down. Trump has empowered them. Now every slime-ball and moron with a gun has crawled out from under their rock with the view that they know better than everyone else and have a right to force their moronic views on everyone else!

The USA has become too dangerous to travel to. It’s like a third world country now. The education system is broken. It exports ignorance and superstition. The US is now a pit of conspiracy, arrogance and stupidity. America seems to breed racism, white supremacy and Nazis. Half of them still believe they are living in the frontier Wild West. This complete stupidity about the right to bear arms is insane. Every nincompoop, racist motherfucker with a chip on their shoulder, a psychological disease or emotional turmoil is armed with assault rifles! It’s nuts! Then there are the gangs, the religious nutcases and political extremists. The place has always been a hotbed of macho violence with dollops of race hatred and religious extremism but it’s taken a big step further into the maelstrom of lawlessness. They spout freedom but they mean conformity. Not only can’t you trust the police but you can’t trust the corrupt politicians or the courts. The only thing that is expanding are the prisons.

How do intelligent, educated, sane Americans manage to live there? The place is an insane asylum run by escapees from drop-outs-ville. The people setting the pace may be stupid and completely uneducated but that doesn’t stop them thinking that they know better than any expert in any field. Science has become a dirty word!

Into what was already a heady mix of insanity comes Trump and the MAGA movement. He has cynically assembled a confederation of racists, Nazis, white supremacists, conspiracy believers, extreme right-wing Christians, trailer trash and discarded working class into a fanatical cult, undermined all experts, science, the media, law, courts, government, education and all other institutions to create a furore. The only truth is MAGA and Trump. And Trump lies and makes everything up. What he is good at is undermining stability and rational sense, stilling up division and hate, and convincing the stupid that he has the answers to every problem. To do that he scapegoats, belittles and inflames.

Now the MAGA nutcases are flouncing around brandishing machine guns and threatening anyone who doesn’t agree with them. It’s mob rule! This is precisely like the blackshirts of Nazi Germany! The MAGA caps are the new SS symbol.

I love America! The most beautiful countryside in the world!

I love the sane American people! (at least the sane, educated ones)

I despise Trump and MAGA, the ascendency of stupid and the rule of violence.

Until the States have become civilised again I won’t be going back! It’s too dangerous! I might go to Afghanistan or Libya, Sudan or Yemen instead! They’re safer!