Donald Trump - Guilty.

 Subject: Donald Trump - Guilty.

So where do we go from here as 12 good men and women found the ex president guilty on 34 counts of falsifying financial records. Trump is totally un-repentant blaming everyone, including the judge and the legal administration in New York but falling  short of castigating the jury. 

Of course it will not effect the Trump supporters, they will wade through blood for him and the issue of storming the Capital Building and might be repeated in some way in the lead up to the election in 6 months. Will the legal system hold up in the ideological ferment which the trial result might bring since the Trump supporters have little truck with legal etiquette.

It’s frightening that the world’s most powerful nation is to be run by an octogenarian,  one who looses his place on the page and the other never bothers to follow the script anyway. We know the Republican reasoning, it’s out of their hands but for the Democrats not to put in place someone younger is unfathomable. We can expect more bombshells but to entrust the nation in the hands of either man, especially Trump puts into question the whole edifice of democratic reasoning. Fitness for the job especially mental acuity is the basic litmus test  and whilst government is meant to be in the hands of a wider set of players only one person has the key to the button.

Biden has been the consummate politician stretching back over a number of presidencies and in part he can run on muscle memory where as Trump it’s  an example of muscle alone.  

The newish phenomena of our age is the drift of people across the world threatening to swamp the existing infrastructure and a movement supported by ‘humanitarian‘ considerations which pre the collective influence of the World Wide Web and the unprecedented access to smart phone ha kept the flow of people inter connected. The genii is out of the bottle and without boarder discipline we must expect ongoing radical transformation of cultural norms. Perhaps hegemony of Caucasian society is coming to an end and a South American style  flamboyance or a religiously determined Asian discipline is edging forward in the face of uncertainty by the present white nationalists who have ruled the roost for centuries but who prefer to battle amongst themselves.  

It’s not an encouraging thought if you have been brought up in the moderation of “live and let live” but the forces beating at our gate are the same as those who beat at the gate of Rome which led to the medieval Middle Ages also known as the Dark Ages.

Will the Dark Ages return with the Ayatollah and Sharia Law, will the tight lipped ideological doctrine of totalitarianism take over as our Woodstock, Glastonbury phase fizzles out and free love becomes chargeable.

Trump would have us believe the free handout is over and rightly so. We’ve been living in his house too long without paying rent and unless we rapidly developed some backbone the plates will have moved and geologically we will have moved on.