Get ’em outta here!
by Tom Sullivan
Average female and male face (University Regensburg, Germany)
Both by accident and by design, we have spent the last thirty to forty years creating through taxes, trade and deregulation a world system where you serve the economy instead of the economy serving you. What’s so hard about saying so? Over, and over and over. If that’s not the “one-world government” of conspiracy theorist nightmares, I don’t know what is.
People are angry about it, for sure. Some are backing Donald Trump for president. Others are backing Bernie Sanders. But being animals, we are wired to identify enemies with faces. Systems have none, or we could punch them in their noses. Unless you are Orwell, systems are harder to tag as bad guys. So when things go wrong, we look instead for scapegoats, people to blame, people with faces. That is why Donald Trump gets more mileage with disaffected voters from blaming Mexicans, Chinese and Muslims than Bernie Sanders does from blaming Wall Street, big banks, or economic inequality. No noses.
Lefties think voters will be impressed by what they know, with their command of theory and facts. Trump doesn’t bother. The alpha dog just wants to show who’s boss. “Get ’em outta here!” Trump, like a corporation, is a base creature of appetite and instinct.
It was interesting to see Louis C.K. remind voters of that. “He is not one of you. He is one of him.” The comedian continues:
Trump is a messed up guy with a hole in his heart that he tries to fill with money and attention. He can never ever have enough of either and he’ll never stop trying.
I don’t know whether to feel sorrier for Trump or for the fans who keep feeding him, hoping to get something they want in return. Good luck with that.