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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe cult of Trump will be destroyed because of this fact of life.
Reality always crushes illusion in the end.
Trumps entire presidency is based on an illusion. Therefore, his voters are following an illusion. Trumps entire life was an illusion.
The claims Trump makes about the economy, foreign policy, are an illusion. In time reality will override the illusion. We will start seeing the reality of Trumps presidency.
The Mueller investigation is reality. What Trump and his voters say and believe about the investigation is an illusion.
What I don't know, nobody knows, is what will be the final cost for all of us, our country when this illusion is finally destroyed.
vi5
(13,305 posts)...there is an entire industry devoted to keeping these people in their bubble and keeping reality out.
As long as there are "others" to blame they will never, ever have to face reality.
Religion is an Illusion too yet rationalists are a minority.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)How many must suffer before the "truth" comes out and people believe it?
From the fall of Rome to the Enlightenment was several hundred years. Can you wait that long?
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)..I believe the fall of Trump will be relatively short. Too many activities that will be proven.."illegal"
groundloop
(11,519 posts)I'm very afraid of what Spanky is going to do to my dreams of being able to retire anytime soon, he's going to crush the economy and I'll be screwed. And that's just me, there are millions more in this country without adequate healthcare who Spanky will gladly hurt just to erase one tiny bit of President Obama's legacy.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)And my fear is the cost of dragging people kicking and screaming from their bubble of delusions will be akin to WWII or worse. Here's hoping it's more like the downfall of McCarthyism and Nixon.
volstork
(5,402 posts)the cult of Hitler seems alive and well in 2018 in spite of the millions who died in its wake. Some skulls are too thick to ever be penetrated; they are helmeted with hatred and desperation.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)ingrained mind-think. They are hard-wired for it, no choice. It's pretty much reflexive reactions combined with cult tribal behavior. Trump falls in that mindset too for many, and then there are those that see great money opportunities and power by being Trump sycophants. Trump has tapped into the hatred in the US and has reinforced that hatred into political action. It's dangerous times in the US. If the GOP Trump Cult still maintains congress after the mid-terms, the US is going to decline even more rapidly.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)The Republican Party spent 50 years developing this cult. It won't go away anytime soon.
tblue37
(65,409 posts)did incalculable damage to both Europe as a whole and Germany itself.
We can't wait for reality to do the job "eventually." We have to get it done a lot sooner than that.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)disbanded and returned to being citizens. Some fled or were patriated to other nations, as in Argentina or even here in the USA. True believers lived to fight another day and to teach another generation.
tblue37
(65,409 posts)says will eventually happen to the Trump movement and his cultists.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)And is still going strong and in the third generation.
Reality is not always an efficient disinfectant.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)From the Harem
(19 posts)Lots of institutions are based on illusion. Religion for example. Did Mohamad really fly off to heaven on a horse? Did Jesus really float off to heaven after his resurrection? Did winter suddenly turn to spring the day Kim Jung Un was born? Illusion is a strong and lasting force.
FSogol
(45,490 posts)The guy created new taxes on the middle class, tripled our national deficit, sold weapons to our enemies, and conspired with terrorists to keep American imprisoned. He put Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussies on the US payroll. When will the facts of life catch up to the St Ronnie fucks?
vi5
(13,305 posts)Not only do all Republicans believe the gospel of St. Ronnie, I'd say half of Democrats (especially many who we actually elected) do as well.
thbobby
(1,474 posts)and he was a criminal and gay hater - denied AIDS epidemic for well over a year. And still repugs jerkoff on the temple of Saint Ronny.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)hell.
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Nowadays some Americans are actually living in that bubble of fake news and fake lifestyles. This is why Faux News exists - to feed the bubble.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)every dollar the working people have into the bank accounts of the ruling rich. Maybe that will happen in another 20 years.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)hope you are right but I seriously doubt it.
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)...indicate it should happen. Remember the internet bubble in the 1990s, Henry Blodget and all of that? Those that shorted lost their shirt. The reason why is because for some it is easy to tell when you are in a bubble, but it is impossible to time its ending.
You are right, there is a Trump bubble, they are stepping away from reality, but assuming that reality is a regulating mechanism is unfortunately not true. The economy, and the political economy, is not truly as efficient as many make it out to be. We experience "market failures" all the time. As an infrastructure economist I see this all the time...
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)or like an addict they have to hit bottom before they end in prison or dead.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)HOW many years have people believed that an all-powerful sky daddy arranged his son's death so that he could get over making us the way he supposedly made us?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,010 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)nitwit.
All twitler's flunkies can see how the stink wore off of li'l bush's flunkies -- now we're listening to busheviks' opinions on the tube. Their opinion is that twitler sucks, to be sure, but even a toddler could understand a power dynamic like this.
So current trump mutant operatives can see the cushy landing, though they're not quite as astute as the average add afflicted toddler.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...but those who want to believe in illusions will always be with us.
KG
(28,751 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Most every sacred belief or strongly-held philosophy around the globe is based on illusion. The structure of nation-states, economic systems, political parties, and family and social structures are constructed from illusions, built out on illusory foundations, and buttressed by illusions.
Trump will be gone, hopefully sooner rather than later, but his cult will live on long past his (fingers crossed) brief time in the office. I fully expect the motherfucker to be a folk hero to the Right for a generation or more.