AN OVERVIEW AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION - BIDEN WON AND TRUMP LOST! AMERICA HOPEFULLY HAS LEARNED

 Yes, America escaped a dark, dark hole that could have made us a short footnote in some history book a century from now written about failed states.

HEAR WE ARE (AGAIN) - HIGH FOOLISHNESS: THE EMPEROR’S CLOTHES....(FILL IN AS WISHED)

It seems we (in America) are living in endless, daily-repeating episodes of a ‘Ship of Fools’, Middle Ages’ response to the 1346 AD, Black Plague - a chaotic, frightened and confused era that was ’led‘ by (or better, ’driven by’) deranged, ranting, kakistocratic demagogue-saviors who in turn were followed by a mobs of superstitious, anti-rational opportunists. Familiar? (See Pericles21’s 2020, posts of July 5 and May 16 - respectively:

“AMERICA UNDER TRUMP: A SHIP OF FOOLS SAILING RUDDERLESS IN STORMY SEAS ... WHERE, OR WHO, OR WHAT IS THE CAPTAIN? IS IT TRUMP, COVID-19, RACISM...OR ALL THREE? HEAVEN HELP US”

and (May 16), 

HISTORY REPEATS: COMPARING OUR COVID-19 PANDEMIC TO THE 1346 AD GREAT BLACK PLAGUE

Our government leadership has gone over the cliff and the rest of us are about to blindly follow or are considering about joining in the leap, or are standing back, gaped mouthed, watching it all but afraid time has run out to save what's left of the American experiment ... even if the rest of us see clearly that Trump, the Republican orthodox conservatives and their (none-written) agenda are all smoke-and-mirror BS!  

The apex of this farce will be, when DT returns to office and says he was always recommending masks and social distancing and masks, how loudly the WH staff, MAGAs and other Trumpists will shout their support and  with blood-rage, cry louder for heavy punishment on those who still refuse to mask up and distance. Whack-a-doodle America .... but hard to laugh anymore.

Seems we’re in a poorly written, badly cast (“D level”), fictional, morality tv episode that loops round and round. 

It's hard to find the words to describe how the White House crowd, mostly educated and certainly privileged,  blindly followed Trump and willingly (even proudly) exposed themselves to the virus; then put nooses around their own necks, and now are looking at their colleagues and families getting the virus but with idiotic, wide-eyed smiles are not able to see a way to self-extricate from the Trump train wreck... even though the very simple solution is to just walk away. 

Trumpism! What a lesson in cult dynamics. 

Every Day in Trumpworld is new chaos and confusion.  And even now, hospitalized with full-on Covid19, it appears he’s conned his doctors to lie for him (that he is doing well) although their misconduct endangers even his own life. 

What an evil level of Dante’s Hell this is....and the upcoming  ‘election’ result is a coin toss (rigged?). This might be a deliriously comic play if it didn’t involve 214,000 deaths ...so far.

COVID19: TRUMP’S ‘BIG HOAX’ LIE’ AND WOODWARD’S (ENABLING) AUDIENCE ROLE - MORE TRUMP-WORLD STUFF ‘BEHIND-THE-LOOKING GLASS’

 Seems to be there might be several crimes, criminal and/or ethical, associated with Woodward’s revelations in his recently released book, <b><i>Rage</i></b>’. At the least, Trump created a lie about the virus for political gain - “ it is a Democrat hoax’. But then Woodward kept quiet, for maybe too long, about knowing the truth (and having the interview tape to prove it).  Quite logically, from having had 4 years to watch Trump ‘operate’ on many before and after Woodward,  was Woodward’s post-interview silence because he was in ‘a state of ... something’ simply from having logged too many hours interviewing Trump? (A matter having consequences for an observer’s mental clarity.)

Imho , both Trump and Woodward  profited from their roles - certainly as liar (Trump) and arguably, as abettor (was Woodward’s delay in revealing Trump’s Big Lie at the very least, unethical?). First, Trump gained politically (and possibly criminally) from his initial ‘Big-Lie-by-disinformation’ (“the virus is a non-threatening Democrat Party hoax”). Second, Woodward’s withholding the truth about Trump’s Big Lie added book value from hitting the optimal timing for book publication ... i.e., two months before the election).   Might Woodward’s silence be regarded as effectively an ‘abetting’ silence? But, speaking on Woodward’s behalf, how was Woodward to know if Trump’s Big Lie was really a lie in itself, ‘a lie about a lie’ .... such is life in Trump-world behind the ‘Looking Glass’. Where all-at-table have to be careful to keep their heads from being dunked in the teapot.