This guy doesn’t look very simple to me.
I’ve recently been doing battle with the U.S. Government, trying to use a service online, but being stifled at every turn by the complex technology.
I feel that millions of Americans, with far less computer savvy than mine, are being frustrated by passwords, regulations, authentications, etc. They are facing not only blockades from government, but also from hospitals, insurance companies, banks, finance, and most services of which they wish to avail themselves. It is not surprising that millions of people view this system as a ‘deep state’, designed to exclude them from mainstream American life. They feel alienated from their own society. And they’re mad as hell! The guy in the above photo tells it all.
For many people, MAGA means a return to the Leave-it-to-Beaver pre-computerized life of the 1960s. There were only two recognized genders back then – none of this LGBTQ/DEI stuff to complicate life. You paid your medical insurance premiums to Blue Cross/Blue Shield, so that when you got sick, your bills would be covered. When you went shopping, you didn’t expect to hear people speaking Spanish or other languages.
People feel over-regulated. They face all sorts of ridiculous rules and obstacles to follow, and are blocked at every turn, whatever they try to do.
So along comes pea-brained Donald J. Trump, with his simplistic speech and thought, with simple solutions to everything. “I feel he’s talking my language. He tells it like it is.” Just slap tariffs on Chinese products, and the Chinese will pay us billions of dollars. Covid? Just shine a light up your butt or drink Clorox. Finance? Just lower interest rates to near zero so we can borrow as much as we want. Gaza? Just move all the Palestinians out and build a new Riviera.
I have a theory about why the stock market is hitting new highs, while labor statistics are abysmal. The rich upper class realizes that Trump is eliminating most regulatory bodies, so that businesses can game the system with impunity. Food companies can add all sorts of poisonous chemicals to their products, without being inspected or questioned by government agencies. Cars and airplanes will crash, for lack of inspection. Banks can cheat customers in all sorts of ways without getting caught. No wonder, then, that rich stockholders figure that they are going to make out like bandits, especially since Trump and Congress have cut their taxes to nearly zero.
As the ‘Simple Man’ in the Lynyrd Skynyrd song alluded to above suggests:
“Be a simple kind of man; Oh, be something you love and understand”.
Today’s bewildered man cannot understand the complex world around him, and he retreats into fear and hatred of what he cannot fathom. At least he can understand Trump’s visceral messaging.