Subject: The Donald effect.
What does it say when millions of pounds have to be spent to protect a visiting dignitary, in this case Donald Trump, from contact with anyone except those specially vetted by the security industry.
Our leaders in this country have minimal protection, a special detective, a chauffeured motor car and it's expected that our MPs and Ministers rub shoulders regularly with the ordinary man and woman in the street.
The sight of Robert Mugabe's motorcade rushing him through the streets of Harare on his way from his home to his office depicted a man who had become a megalomanic, who saw himself as a messiah leading his people to the promised land from under the yoke of colonialism but In the process he had lost sight of who the people are.
Sadly the history of America is peppered with assassinations and attempted assassinations on the streets of America. The freely available firearm makes it relatively easy to take a pot shot at anyone you don't like and since the nature of politics and the political animal is to oppose as many as it seeks to help, the politician is certainly vulnerable.
Our airwaves are red hot with commentary about what Trump said in his interview with the Sun newspaper prior to his meeting with our Prime Minister Mrs May in which in essence he was extremely derogatory to Mrs May describing the nature of her proposed attempt to leave the EU as precluding any deals with the US and then to rub salt in the wound, suggested Boris Johnson, the person who has just resigned in a huff over her proposal to try for close trading links with Europe, would himself make a good prime minister. Not 8 hours later, Trump was transformed, lovey-Dover with Mrs May, extolling her virtues and suggesting that his words had been misconstrued.
He is a Jekyll and Hyde character, a representative of the fake news he so condemns and yet he can be a breath of fresh air when compared to the choreographed diplomatic double speak we are so used to when listening to any politician these days. With him the lies and deceit are blatant it's like talking to the guy in the pub. He may change his mind half way through talking to you, he may deny having said something but at least for the moment "it's true for him". He hasn't been intellectually neutered to say what he has been programmed to say. He isn't under the politically correct constraint which most of our politicians and media seem to hide behind. He doesn't call a 'spade a shovel' in an attempt, not to upset people or be as tortured as so many of our tv journalists seem to be, afraid not to tow the line
If one hears them talk about immigration, race, so called misogyny then there is not a cigarette papers width between any of them and yet in the 'real world' there are wide divergent views, openly discussed when free from the PC ideology held by many organisations such as a municipality.
The truth in terms of sociology is an individual thing since the thing being discussed is a moral or ethical assumption and there are no hard and fast rules so long as the discussion takes all views into consideration and doesn't assume that some views have some sort of divine exclusivity.
What does it say when millions of pounds have to be spent to protect a visiting dignitary, in this case Donald Trump, from contact with anyone except those specially vetted by the security industry.
Our leaders in this country have minimal protection, a special detective, a chauffeured motor car and it's expected that our MPs and Ministers rub shoulders regularly with the ordinary man and woman in the street.
The sight of Robert Mugabe's motorcade rushing him through the streets of Harare on his way from his home to his office depicted a man who had become a megalomanic, who saw himself as a messiah leading his people to the promised land from under the yoke of colonialism but In the process he had lost sight of who the people are.
Sadly the history of America is peppered with assassinations and attempted assassinations on the streets of America. The freely available firearm makes it relatively easy to take a pot shot at anyone you don't like and since the nature of politics and the political animal is to oppose as many as it seeks to help, the politician is certainly vulnerable.
Our airwaves are red hot with commentary about what Trump said in his interview with the Sun newspaper prior to his meeting with our Prime Minister Mrs May in which in essence he was extremely derogatory to Mrs May describing the nature of her proposed attempt to leave the EU as precluding any deals with the US and then to rub salt in the wound, suggested Boris Johnson, the person who has just resigned in a huff over her proposal to try for close trading links with Europe, would himself make a good prime minister. Not 8 hours later, Trump was transformed, lovey-Dover with Mrs May, extolling her virtues and suggesting that his words had been misconstrued.
He is a Jekyll and Hyde character, a representative of the fake news he so condemns and yet he can be a breath of fresh air when compared to the choreographed diplomatic double speak we are so used to when listening to any politician these days. With him the lies and deceit are blatant it's like talking to the guy in the pub. He may change his mind half way through talking to you, he may deny having said something but at least for the moment "it's true for him". He hasn't been intellectually neutered to say what he has been programmed to say. He isn't under the politically correct constraint which most of our politicians and media seem to hide behind. He doesn't call a 'spade a shovel' in an attempt, not to upset people or be as tortured as so many of our tv journalists seem to be, afraid not to tow the line
If one hears them talk about immigration, race, so called misogyny then there is not a cigarette papers width between any of them and yet in the 'real world' there are wide divergent views, openly discussed when free from the PC ideology held by many organisations such as a municipality.
The truth in terms of sociology is an individual thing since the thing being discussed is a moral or ethical assumption and there are no hard and fast rules so long as the discussion takes all views into consideration and doesn't assume that some views have some sort of divine exclusivity.
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