This is what happens to a social system that has produced more wealth, more innovation, more products and more devastation and misery, than any in the history of human society. Trump is the political excrement of a social system of production on it's last legs, at the end of an historical era. It is evidence to the rest of us, the working class, the specially oppressed minorities, the friends of the earth, the demoralized middle class that might choose the road to fascism and reaction, that if the working class does not take on the task that history has set for us, we can lose it all.
But let's not allow the degenerate nature of this imbecile to cloud our thinking. There were serious problems here in the US and throughout the world that were not Trump's doing. The trade union leadership that refuses to offer an alternative despite having the resources to do so, and the inability of both parties of capitalism, Democrats and Republicans, to continue to govern US society in a way that offers US workers any hope of a future have contributed to the rise of Trump.
Obama is an educated, slick bourgeois politician. He's cultured, as were the English bourgeois that lorded it over 25% or so of the world's population. Obama is polite and has manners like the Belgian King Leopold who oversaw the murder of 10 million inhabitants of the Congo, a country in Africa that Leopold believed was his "back yard".
Michelle Obama has no problem with the media publishing pictures of her with her arm around the war criminal and mass murder George W Bush. That the media quotes her saying he is her "partner in crime" doesn't concern her. This is class solidarity folks, these people stick together and the glue that bonds them is money, the pursuit of it and the accumulation of it. In other words, capitalism.
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Trump admits he can grab women's crotches whenever he feels like it. The Nazi's and the KKK love him up to a point; he's a bit too liberal and sort of schizophrenic even for them. The US ruling class is done with him, he is not good for business. Capital accumulation, the acquiring of wealth without working which is the only way it can be accumulated, needs a certain amount of equilibrium, it cannot abide chaos. Trump is chaos.
Yes, Trump is mad. But that's not the main issue for the US ruling class. He can be mad, he can be a racist and a rapist and he appears to be both. But for God's sake man, don't interfere with profit making. You might ignite a social upheaval.
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