I’ve been seeing all sorts of postings on Facebook and elsewhere, pointing to Jan 20th as “The start of a Golden Era”, “the day when eggs are 99c a dozen and gas $2 a gallon,” “the day the world will stop laughing at the US”, “a new dawn”, etc.etc. All this really smacks of an apocalyptic cult, like those doomsday cults that say the world is going to end on a certain day.
If ever there were proof that Trump’s supporters were members of a cult, this is it. In fact, like Jesus, Trump is coming again, a ‘Second Coming’. I turned to the famous poem of W.B. Yeats: “The Second Coming”. Here are some excerpts:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Really nails it! And who might that ‘rough beast’ be? I notice that he is even walking with a slouch these days.
I like the Bible’s depiction of the Second Coming: “..like a thief in the night.” Got that right! How about “..like a felon in the night”?
I’m always intrigued by these doomsday cults, because when D-Day arrives and the world doesn’t end, they keep going about their business as though there had been no D-Day. It’s clear that when on Jan. 20th, egg and gas prices don’t drop, it will have no impact on the cultists, who will then focus on their next D-Day, and believe just as strongly as ever in the Second Coming of their Messiah.