The Capitalists are Coming for Trump and They’re at the Gate
By: Robert Turner
Tags: America, Democrats, Republican Party, Politics, Donald Trump

The Capitalists are Coming for Trump and They’re at the Gate

Why the melodrama will fade and everyone will get back to business as usual

The problem with the internet is the importance it lends to voices. Inconsequential, disruptive and destabilizing voices that have increasingly found favor in our modern society. Voices that, in past generations, had been muted by the crowd. No longer. Anarchists now have a new playground.

After impeachment, when the dust settles in America, whatever the result of this convoluted and opaque process may be, the American psyche will emerge for the most part unscathed. Slightly weathered, a little bruised, but otherwise, none the worse for wear.

For most, the harsh reality of eking out an existence tends to dilute the importance of the political machinations that unfold on Capitol Hill. Life’s real issues. Paying bills, feeding children and deciding on which model of assault rifle to purchase for ridding your lawn of gophers. These things matter. In the grand scheme of things, they matter most.

You’re dealing with a group of very resilient people. The Americans are as diverse and divided as they are disenfranchised, but they can draw solace from the fact they’re not alone. Far from it. Their plight is shared globally, by citizens of every country. You may ask how?

The hallmark of a successful government and a happy society is a simple one. It is based on the government's ability to suppress the public’s awareness of being disenfranchised, In effect, how successfully it is able to brainwash its citizens into buying into the lie of the happy state, the democratic state.

As with other political systems, America’s ‘elected’ have until recently done a stellar job. Past Presidents have adhered to artfully crafted narratives to enforce the appearance of democracy.

Democracy is the dream, politicians the salesmen and capitalism provides the script. The electorate swallows it hooks, line and sinker. When the alternative is your bleak reality, the lie is that much easier to believe, the dream a necessity.

Donald Trump has rocked that boat, arguably completely capsizing it and shattering the illusion. People are waking from their ‘democratic’ slumber to the dawning awareness of their real lives. A realization they no longer live in a democracy and haven’t for a long, long time. That perhaps there never was democracy. That their voices count for naught. That, as with all democracies, they are merely the fuel for the engine that is capitalism.

They’re not alone. There is no country in the world that does not embrace this principle of enrichment of the few at the expense of the many. Capitalism runs our world, dressed in its varying guises of socialism, communism or democracy. To argue otherwise is to accept the lie. The ideologies, including the religious constructs, that form the basis of our societies, are manipulated by a select few to control masses. Dress it any way you choose, but call it by its name.

Side Show Bob may have temporarily hijacked the American narrative and exposed the democratic lie for what it is, but his masters will not allow the narrative to be destroyed.

It serves not only their purposes, but holds together the very societal fabric of America. Remove the narrative, destroy the dream that is democracy and people will wake from their slumber. The fairy tale will end and anarchy will follow in its footsteps. Much like the child waking from the edge of sleep to demand the parent continue reading, America wants its story book back.

Despite the calls from the digital void to embrace anarchy, people yearn for a return to the dream, to that lie, sold so eloquently by individuals like Kennedy and Obama. Trump’s masters will act, dispassionately and decisively, to protect this narrative, and as always, as with all great magicians, their delicate judicious manipulations to restore balance will pass unseen.

The consequences of their actions, however, will be felt across America. Democracy will be restored and people will feel their ‘faith’ in the system to be vindicated. The fact that democracy no longer means what it did before the arrival of Trump, before the Twin Towers, matters little.

It is the idea of freedom and choice that is so beguiling. Little of either remain, but the dream persists. For now.