Forgive me Father WordPress for I have not been to literary or political confession for a very long time….

Morning thought: I dont want to be right about this but my current vibe based on a combination of things over time (and even more so lately) is that even tho its not what the early voting polls suggest which show Biden slightly ahead in most states, I’m actually fearing that Trump will pull off this presidential election much like he did in 2016. There are just too many disparate groups of belligerent anti- Biden voters comprised of a heterogeneous hodge-podge of apocalyptic doomsday cults, golden shower Sex and Satan worshippers, celebrity jocks, crazed college football fans in body paint and loincloths and floridly psychotic pick-up truck driving good old boys with meth mush for brains but completely legal concealed carry guns and voting privileges. This partial list of handpicked Trump supporters alone have come together to re-elect Donald Trump and are willing to say so on and off the social record and without appropriate abject shame. I even know a few well educated Trump voters, fellow Baby Boomer suburbanites with respectable front lawns and fully paid up HOA dues who can express one or two reasonably intelligent thoughts. They freely admit that the Donald is likely sexually impotent as well as a total horses ass but are still voting for him for “business reasons”. That typically translates in Capitalism 101 English to “lower taxes for wealthy people”. Watching, reading, and thinking about this like a psychologist (or more specifically like an FBI profiler of homicidal psychopaths, serial killers and predatory rapists) and then more recently having creepy dreams about dead crows and a giant dark red tsunami makes me fear that there might just be too many Dr. Strangelove extreme law and order lunatics, complete and total morons, robotic and/or religious Republicans who somehow lost their soul and/or balls over the last four years, Covid crazy Cartman-in-the-basement Q-anon conspiracy theorists, West Wing White House wannabes, anti-antifa anti-socialist fascists, peri-menopausal social media Karens, tunnel-visioned Rapture hungry evangelicals, extreme right wing Neo-con Netanyahu Jews, Old school Charles Lindbergh American isolationists, MAGA hat nationalist nutbags, Confederate flag waving and automatic weapon bearing anti-liberal everythings (ALE), Neo-nazi White Power militia bozos, stupid and proud of it Covid/Climate Change/ Holocaust deniers, wealthy Wall Street stock market manipulating day traders and corporate junkies, golf-playing high-income frequent flying business CEOs, finance and investment bank lenders and opportunists, and finally critically confused and misinformed legal immigrants (especially Hispanic Americans), etc. ————————————————————Donald Trump may well be a down and dirty dog malignant narcissist but he’s also kind of a genius at rallying together and then expertly herding his disparate flock like a morbidly obese mixed breed border collie/German Shepherd pumped full of junk food, and anabolic steroids. Having tested positive for Covid he might well be taking steroids and stimulants every day and like Adolf Hitler has them administered right before each of his longwinded mask-free/brain-free campaign rallies by his hand-picked medical team that includes that demon witch doctor lady and Dr. Morell, er I mean Dr. Atlas the chiropractic radiologist without portfolio, curriculum vitae or legitimate work resume. Trump seems outwardly foolish but excels at collecting divergent fools and vulnerable sycophants. He then gets them to believe that his current “main opponent” (Biden, Harris, etc.) are the EXACT person they most hate, despise or fear…..just like he did to “Crooked Hillary”. He’s also a prototypical bully. By all accounts George Bush should have had the balls to come out publicly against Trump by now but he wont (part Bush related family values like human decency and social decorum and part personal fear and self-preservation should Trump somehow win). Barack Obama on the other hand was free to hit 3-pointer putdowns all day long but may have also remained on the sidelines a bit too long and too late into the political 4th quarter even if Biden does appear to hold a consistent lead in the polls. Hillary much? Hitler much? Joseph McCarthy much? Satan much? ————————————————————Personally I think Biden kept silent (or was kept silent, bound and gagged in his own Colonial New England basement for too long which was a reasonable strategy early on given his tendency to fuck up and say stupid old man shit as well as the prevailing belief that Trumps own forked tongue , foul mouth, bad hair and covid complicity would do enough damage to the publics confidence in him by November. In addition, even if his diehard Waffen SS loyalist base remained unfazed then at least it was reasonable to think that undecided and independent voters might recognize the smell of unhinged insanity. However, by not having enough time to demonstrate himself to be legally competent if not incontinent and a relatively dementia-free well-informed political leader and not just Obama’s older white guy VP side guy he instead gave the big mouth/foul mouth Trump unlimited time to demonize Biden and his wayward addict lawyer son Hunter and throw their cursed and mutilated family name and body parts like so much red meat to all the hate and fear based social groups and carnivorous individuals listed above. I think almost everyone including his own mother would agree (including most of Trump’s White House aides, cabinet members, military generals and West Wing staff) that President Trump is truly a “win at all costs” hypercompetitive combatant and soulless snake oil salesman. He’s like the Wizard of Oz crossed with a vicious rabid honey badger. Not only does he have small bulbous hands, sharp claws and a “just dont care” no f#%ks given attitude but he will tell you anything you want to hear while sizing you up for his Ed Gein/Buffalo Bill skin and skull golden trophy room at the White House. Ok, that’s it. I just had to get this fear and loathing rant out and pray that I’m wrong because if im right… it will be ugly and he just like the Covid19 virus he said will “just like a miracle go away” …..and never did I dont think he will ever go away even if the liar-in-chief said so. We are rounding some invisible totally made up corner politically speaking much like his corner-less invisible border wall that he just proclaimed to his frostbitten virus-laden followers is “almost finished” (sound of wild cheering and dry non productive coughs). I’m truly sorry for the depressing blog but i needed to tell someone and confess my nightmare vision fully. Plus just like Jeff Goldblum in the original Jurassic Park film I also “hate it when I’m right” about such monumental moments and chaos theory quantum entangled historical predictions. This time a really really really hope I’m dead wrong.

PS. On November 16, 2016 I wrote a CaptCliff blog entitled “How Trump Beat Clinton in Game of Thrones Politics. It also implicitly and imperfectly compared some of Donald Trump‘s personality traits to Julius Caesar and suggested how some of these super alpha male power and success-at-all-costs characteristics might help to explain his ability to avoid doing prison time and win highly contested presidential elections while being devoid of frontal lobe executive function, critical thinking and genuine empathy.