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We have all been there before. We comment on some ludicrous action taken by a person with different political views than ours and then, like clockwork, some chuckle head chimes in, “You’re just repeating the narrative of the mainstream media! You need to do research!” Well, actually, I did plenty of research while I was in college and I still do an immense amount of research today. Though I may watch a particular popular news channel from time to time, that is certainly not the extent of my knowledge of political affairs. When you major in political science like I did, you learn the first key of knowing anything about politics relies heavily on staying up to date on political journals, not the alphabet soup media. That is not to say that popular media is always wrong, but it certainly is nowhere near as accurate as political journals like Sage or JSTOR. I read political journals, historical papers, psychological journals, neuroscience studies, philosophical analyses, and political novels on a frequent basis. Then some lazy know nothing on social who sits and watches some obscure youtube channel funded by the same damn companies that fund FOX and CNN comes along, tells me to “wake up” and has the sheer audacity to imply that I am the one that needs to do “research”. This is similar to what I am sure star chef Gordon Ramsay feels when some upstart chef from a grimy dive restaurant tries to inform him how to cook a pizza the “right” way. Do your research chef. You’re cooking the “mainstream” way with things like seasoning and pizza ovens; you need to pop open that microwave and toss the pizza in there with ketchup and processed cheese. That is the real pizza recipe, the one the liberals and the Satanists do not want you to know about. That’s right folks. All of the real news is on youtube, a cartoonish platform that argues that building tiny huts in the woods is a great alternative to housing and that a failed actor shoving copious amounts of food down their throat is “entertainment”. But we can’t forget the value of other alternative sources of information like Meta, a platform that is also responsible for an increase in suicide amongst teens. Yes, we must listen to the news from a platform that causes children to take their own lives. What could be a more reliable source of information than that? And how about Tiktok, a platform that promotes conspiracy theories like the idea that hip hop is the devil’s music and that frequently has been caught causing children to harm each other by performing various “challenges”. These are the alternative sources that people with “opposing” opinions often use. Well, allow me to save the opposition some valuable time. Dear so-called “free thinkers”, you’re damn right that I do not care about your opinions because your opinions are misinformed. Your opinions were given to you by major corporations and so your opinions are nothing more than biased, useless, imprecise, nonsensical verbal diarrhea and I have grown weary of listening to your bullshit. These people with “opposing” opinions are doing nothing more than chanting slogans from millionaire comedians, youtubers, tiktokers, and instagram influencers who just happened to be funded by companies like Chevron, Merck, Kaiser, various drug companies, supplement companies, prepper companies, car salesmen, gold and silver coin companies, gun companies, crytocurrency companies, insurance companies, and churches. So, you know, the same damn companies who lobby congress and own the politicians you all pretend to hate so much. I know what I am doing when I choose to ignore such propaganda. However, the opposition bows on its knees and chants the slogans promoted by the real mainstream news, social media. So listen up brown-nosers and listen good. You can take each and every one of your corporate media funded "opposing" opinions and shove them straight up your algorithm. The political shepherd has spoken. How’s that for a wake up call snowflakes?

The Christian fundamentalists and their quasi liberal mystic cohorts are bringing Satan back and in a big way. That’s right, the tragedy at Astroworld, where nine people, including a young boy, were stomped to death on a concert floor in a stampede of frightened fans was inspired by none other than the devil himself, according to “spiritual people” from all different kinds of religions and political affiliations. People who fail to fully grasp or understand difficult topics in a stressful world often resort to urban myths to cope with the trauma of those experiences. This is where your conspiracy theories often originate. While it is true that dictators often take advantage of these unwarranted fears to obtain power, the reality is that the fears and the conspiracy beliefs that come from them often originate in the general populous. When you think about the amount of people who claim that life is nothing more than “spiritual warfare”, this phenomenon becomes much more easier to understand. Many people ask, “How could this happen?” But they should probably be asking “Why does this happen so often?” There is a reoccurring theme with conspiracy beliefs that often gets overlooked, probably because history does not make for a very good smear campaign about whatever political opponent you are trying to besmirch at the moment. It becomes more difficult to place all the blame on Trump, for example, when you have events like the Salem Witch Trials, which were totally influenced by this same type of “Satanic” hysteria that is currently undergoing a renaissance in the twenty first century. Once you think of it in that context you can start to really understand why America in particular is so entranced by the idea of the devil having a hand in everything from concerts to successful business mergers. The fascination with evil and hidden knowledge is inherently American. The alluring, and often incorrect, notion that there are people in high places manipulating controlling our lives has been promoted by both the left and the right. While this claim that powerful people are attempting to control our thoughts has certainly been proven true when it comes to famous political players like some of the civil rights leaders from the 1960s and seventies, it makes much less sense when the person making the allegations is a social media influencer who most people have never even heard of. Americans are always trying to demonize their opponents, always trying to make them look evil in some way. So, when you have this idea floating out there that everyone that does not agree with your values is somehow wicked, then it becomes quite easy to make the leap to a claiming and even believing that particular groups of people are demonic. This thought process never goes away in America; it is always there, lurking behind accusations of communism or a Jewish run Hollywood or sex crazed woke liberals. Sure, the terminology changes, but the basic accusation, that being that the other is being influenced by satanic forces, remains the same. These demonic accusations are now being hurled at Travis Scott because it seems that, in America, we cannot have a simple discussion about the actual facts, but that we need to turn these facts into a ridiculous biblical passion play that even Jesus Christ would find boring and trite. These claims that celebrities are demons are also related to the jealousy that people feel when those who disagree with them politically get a bit of the spotlight. Calling someone a devil in America makes people less famous; celebrities lose followers because of this childish name calling all the time. So, again we see that the people who complain about cancel culture the most, the same people who claim to be “free thinkers” who wish to protect free speech for all, are often the worst offenders. These mystical thinkers employ magical thinking, deny reality and ultimately end up destroying the very celebrities they pretend to protect. 

I am no longer religious for many reasons. One of those reasons is that religion failed me personally. Christianity left me out in the cold to starve to death while it was busy setting the table for Christmas. It did not have the time or the patience for me when I was dying of epilepsy because it was busy blowing up Muslims in countries it could not pronounce. It did not have food to give to me while I was starving because it was too busy congratulating Kayne West on his latest album. It did not have shelter for me when I was sleeping in a car because it was too busy teaching some baby in Nigeria to despise homosexuals. In short, religion was completely indifferent to my existence, and so I am now indifferent to its existence. As the bible says, you reap what you sow. You get out what you put in. And if the religious world has decided that it will put nothing into the communities it pretends to represent, if it chooses to sow hate instead of love, then that is what it shall receive in return. It is that simple; you cannot get anymore biblical than that, not that I care about being biblical. I just find it ironic when it works out that way. But the main reason I left religion was not the hate, but the preaching. The constant, endless, never ceasing cacophony of demands, special pleading and instructions were what really drove me from the church. Churches are great at telling you how to feel bad about your actions, but I had already been hating myself for a long time. I already felt guilty when I went to church; that is why I ended up there in the first place. All the church did was heap even more guilt on top of the guilt I was already bearing on my exhausted shoulders. Once at church I learned that I was not feeling bad the right way, that I had to feel even worse than I already felt before I ever came there. So, there was really no point to be there either. If it is all about feeling like an awful person instead of trying to feel better, then, really, religion has no point, not to me anyway. So I returned to my secular life and I enjoy my secular life. But it is my secular life, no one else's. I do not need other secular people, whether they be relatives, celebrities or social media influencers to instruct me on how to live my secular life. I am not interested in that. That is why I rarely bother going on social media these days, unless it is just a quick hello to the fans of the show. Social media, much like church, simply has nothing to offer me...other than guilt that is. Influencers are just preachers without the funny costumes. They have followers, merchandise, books, dictates, group forums, and self-righteous sermons. Sounds like a church to me. I have no love for secular preachers just as I have no love for religious preachers because there is no difference between the two. They both want to control you; they both want you to behave, to follow the rules, to adore them and to put no gospel before their own. I have no time for this. I have far better things to do than to listen to someone scream at me for eating a steak on Christmas or for getting married to my high school sweetheart or for not having the appropriate amount of empathy or for not agreeing with a news anchor. Again, this is just church by another name; and a church by any other name puts me to sleep. Group think is boring; it does not matter who does it. It does not matter how cool you think your brand of mob behavior is, it is still mob behavior nonetheless. I am my own man. I do not need to yell that at some out group from a stage like Dave Chapelle or Jerry Seinfeld. I do not need to paid for my individuality. I will always give that to you for free. You do not need to pay me to be myself. Perhaps I agree with you most of the time, but that does not mean I completely agree. I find the very idea of groups stifling because all groups seek to create guilt in their members. Now keep your sermon to yourself and kindly show me the exit.   

In America many people are under the delusion that we all have an equal shot to be successful, that, as long as we have positive vibe and put in an appropriate amount of work, that the world is at our fingertips. This is stupidity at its finest. To make the assumption that fairness and equality are at work within a capitalist system that is solely based on survival of the fittest and ruthless competition is downright childish. At some point you have to grow up and recognize the very clear writing on the wall. The game is fixed folks. The reason that many people are unable to find work is not for lack of trying, but because employers only hire people they know. You can have all the qualification and talent in the world, but you ain't getting that nice job because the hiring manager already has it reserved for their dumb cousin they owe a favor to. The whole interview process is just a formality. In America, you only have to pretend to give people a fair shot. Once the pretense of "the interview process" has been completed, hiring managers are under no obligation whatsoever to hire the most qualified candidate and they rarely do. I will never forget the time I went to interview for a teaching job in they bay area. I had been contacted by a recruiting person from Oakland that thought I would be great for the job. I did not apply for the position so I figured this was pretty much a slam dunk. I mean, why even bother calling a person to come in unless you liked them? They were interviewing for a drama teacher and I had been acting and teaching for well over ten years. I had the experience. I had the talent. I had the passion. It was a perfect fit. I even had a degree in political science and the job was specifically describe as incorporating politics and theater. How many people do you know who are such a perfect fit for a job description? What more do you need than that? There was no way I would not get this job. I stood outside for hours because there was a bomb threat and the school was on lock down. Those idiots had me waiting out in the cold for hours for what turned out to be a false alarm, only to tell me to go home. I came back the next day (I had to walk for a few miles because I had no money at the time; I had walked the first day as well) and gave an amazing interview. I nailed every question. One of the staff members even congratulated me on how well I had done. The kids loved me too. I thought, surely there is no way I did not get this job. But, low and behold, I got a call a few days later informing me that I was not going to be given the position. If that is not proof enough for you that hiring managers and job recruiters alike are a bunch of heartless pricks who orgasm every time they crush a dream, then can I ask you what more you need? Do they literally have to use you as a stepping stool before you recognize the favoritism they play all the time? Even if they did that, most people would still live in denial. They would still claim that hiring managers are just misunderstood, that there are so many candidates and it is just too hard to make the right decision. Well, that's not true either. It is just a power play. It is just another way for them to exert their dominance over others. Employers do not care about having the best talent. They care about giving their friends and family jobs. That is all. I really do not understand why Americans ever left the UK. They have the same aristocracy class in America that existed in Britain. They all hire each other, while leaving the more talented people they do not know out. That is how they get down. Look, not many people will tell you this, but you have no chance. Those are not hiring managers; those are saboteurs. Those are not job recruiters; they are job deniers. Chances are, they have already decided who they were going to hire well before the job posting ever made it to indeed. Interviews are nothing more than joke and our lives are the punchlines.   

Being alive today, one would think that communism was on its way to becoming a legitimate ruling force in American politics. But this has never been the case. Communism has never had any wide appeal in America. The “threat” of communism is nothing more than a talking point used by political pundits, mostly on the right, but also on the left whenever it is convenient, to scare the working classes into docility and indifference. It is the most successful talking point in the modern era of American politics. This very old talking point (the first fears of communism did not happen in the 1950s, but right after the October revolution in 1917) has been so effective that everything from child tax credits, to the largely Christian black civil rights movement, to atheist celebrities, to hippie communes, to science fiction novelists, to free food programs have at one point or another been completely demonized as a secret communist plot to subvert the Constitution. Make no mistake, I blame the effectiveness of this vile talking point not on the spineless corporate politicians that make use of it, but on the painfully lazy American populous that chooses to turn to corporate owned media networks to get information about world events. Anyone who wishes to know about current events may easily do so by reading real political journals, but instead America chooses to say informed by hearing the thoughtless opinions of elite businessmen and corrupt politicians. Any political analyst worth their salt will readily tell you that the very idea that a communist revolution is coming to subvert the wealth of Elon Musk and Kayne West is just as ridiculous as saying that Big Bird is trying to brainwash your child into getting vaccinated. Providing access to information is not the same thing as manipulation or "brainwashing". Simply because a university teaches communism, that does not mean that the university itself is communist. There are no communist universities in the United States of America; that is simply not allowed here. But even if such a university did exist, it would not last very long. Communist rhetoric remains extremely unpopular in America because the mechanisms for a successful communist revolution simply do not exist in America. There are plenty of reasons for this. The first reason is that most students who attend university are simply the children of the elite classes. Life has been good to these elites; they have no need of communism. Am I supposed to believe that the likes of Paris Hilton and Willow Smith are currently organizing a communist uprising to steal their own wealth form their own parents? The second reason is that studies show that people who attend university for four years become more conservative, not more liberal, by the end of their college experience because they are exposed to the gospel of capitalism all day long for four straight years. But the final reason really puts the whole thing in perspective. Wherever there has been a violent communist uprising, that uprising has always followed the same trajectory. There must be a powerful and technologically advanced colonial force occupying or threatening the country and an oppressed, mostly uneducated and starving, working class. Before the revolution in Russia, Germany invaded Russia during WWI. Before communism took hold in Vietnam, France had exploited Vietnamese resources for years. Before China became a communist nation, it had been constantly attacked by both Japan and the western powers. Who is occupying America? No one. Where is the mostly uneducated and starving peasant class in America? Nowhere. How many communist are there in America? As I write this post, the American communist parties have fewer than 100,000 members and have almost no influence over American political debate and none whatsoever when it comes to policy. An interesting side note: they had even fewer members before Donald Trump became president and began cutting welfare programs.

For decades now, political pundits and analysts have been making the same observation over and over and over again: that being that somewhere along the line American politics became meaner than it once was. These people completely misunderstand American politics; they know nothing of the political history of this nation and, either mistakenly or intentionally, they are misinforming you. America’s politics have always been violent, which is probably one of the reasons so few people enjoy talking about politics in America. You have to have a bit of a taste for the profane as an American political observer. People who say such silly things will always try to find one distinct causes of American political violence; the conservatives point to defund the police, while liberals point to Trump supporters. But there is an overall trend in both sides of the political spectrum toward violent rhetoric. This makes sense considering the fact that early American colonizers committed a genocide on the Native population of this country and did not even bat an eye about it. Still today there are Americans who refuse to even recognize that the aforementioned mass killing even took place or who exclaim at the top of their lungs, “get over it or get out of my country!” The same thing is often said about slavery. Today Americans are so ready to forget that slavery ever took place that they are more than ready to ban the teaching of it in school altogether! They are doing this because they refuse to admit to their ancestors’ violent history and, in so doing, they are bolstering, encouraging and promoting the same violent history. The Salem witch trials are another perfect example of America’s willingness to engage in violent acts (in this case the mass drowning, burning and torture of its own citizens) in order to solidify political power. After the mass genocide of the Native population, America then proceeded to kidnap Native children from their homes and hold them captive in “schools” where torture was inflicted upon them in order to prevent them from practicing their culture in public. It does not get much more politically violent than that. We also should not forget that it was once commonplace to ruthlessly beat women both at home and on the job. We also often forget the mass use of child labor in the United States. Children worked under awful conditions and were often injured or killed on the job during the industrial revolution. The barbaric practice of forcing children to work ten hour days with little rest did not end in America until the 1930s. Then there was the internment of the Japanese, not to mention the brutal treatment of Chinese railroad workers. Chinese workers were paid less and hundreds lost their lives in squalid conditions that no American today would accept. Fast forward to today and homeless people meander through the street; they sleep on the sidewalk in front of luxury stores while bleeding from the head. Cops come along and thaw corpses off of park benches before the day’s work begins. Veterans, who risked their lives for this nation, sleep in tent cities. Countless people were simply tossed out of their homes because they lost their jobs through no fault of their own. People with serious disabilities are refused checks because America’s wallet has tightened just as much as its heart. And what of America's secret love affair with domestic violence? According to the NCADV, intimate partner violence accounts for 15% of all violent crime in the U.S.A. 10 million people in a year suffer from domestic violence, that amounts to a shocking one in four woemen and one in nine men. Is this not ruthless? Callous? Is this not violence? Is it not violent to call for the killing of elected officials or celebrities? It was when they did it to AOC, Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, Josh McDermitt, Anna Gunn, and Adam Kizinger. But it is not new, just ask JFK, RFK, FDR, Malcolm X, John Lennon, Jodi Foster, and many, many more. 

Listening to people talk about entitlement or at least what they view as entitlement today, one would think that it was a mental disease, and, at this rate, it will probably make it there eventually. If you run a quick google search on the word entitlement you will only see it spoken of as a negative mode of thought that prevents you from becoming a billionaire. Here are some of the articles that pop up when you run that search: “Entitlement Mentality: Causes, Symptoms and More” (WebMD), “The Psychology of a Sense of Entitlement” (betterhelp.com), “Five Ways to Deal With Entitled People” (quickanddirtytips.com), “Entitled People: What To Expect and How To Deal With Them” (spsp.org). This is a symptom of capitalism run amuck. Now, people who demand what used to be civil rights (the right to eat, the right to employment that aligns with one’s talents, the right to marry, the right to walk down the street without being harassed) are suffering from “entitlement mentality”. It seems to me like this is just another war on the poor cloaked in the guise of righteousness. But what does entitlement actually mean? What is the real definition? Here you go. Entitlement: the fact of having a right to something, the amount to which a person has a right. Those are the first two definitions of the word. It is not until you get to the third and final definition of the word that entitlement is presented as being in any way negative. Entitlements are also a form of government welfare such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment and Welfare Programs (WIC, Food Stamps, TANF and so on). The vast majority of entitlement programs are geared toward elderly people and children. Without these entitlement programs countless elderly people and young children would starve to death. The elderly people of the day did not steal this money. They worked for their social security and medicare by paying taxes their entire lives. The same can be said about people on unemployment; our tax dollars fund unemployment programs, not your tax dollars, everybody’s tax dollars! And what of the children you all pretend to love? Would you have them die of starvation because a person is injured and cannot work? Would you have poor people stripped of their children because they have fallen on hard times? Do you wish that child to be torn from their family and thrown into an orphanage, which is known to cause criminal behavior in children? Do you want the crime rates to continue to rise? Do you enjoy it when old people die slow painful deaths? Seriously, what is your problem? Many of you behave this way with protests as well. You say, “how dare they protest getting beaten to death by police? How could they be so entitled?” Do you not know that protest is a protected right? You say, “how dare they get married and have children when they cannot afford it?” Do you not know that marriage and starting a family is a civil right as defined by Supreme Court in 1967? Do you know anything or are you just a grumpy person who is jealous of us poor people who have found some comfort in a ruthless world? Have you grown so cold that you are willing to take away even the little tiny bit of comfort that we have developed for the poor in this nation? I think that people who demand that entitlement cease are the entitled ones. They feel entitled to take rights away from others simply because they are successful. What happens when your luck runs out? What happens if you develop a chronic illness? Who will care for you if not the government rights and programs that you so readily mock as entitlement syndrome? I really hope that your talking points don’t end up destroying your life like they have destroyed mine. I lose four jobs, four jobs because of this nation refusing to get vaccinated or practice basic hygiene and you call me entitled so you can take the only things from me keeping my family from starving? You don’t even know the meaning of the word. 

Edginess is next to godliness...until edginess becomes boring that is. Such was the case with political humorist, Mort Sahl, who recently passed away last month. Though Sahl enjoyed landmark success in his life, revolutionizing comedy, hobnobbing with the Kennedy's and eventually becoming the highest paid comedian in the business, he eventually fell into obscurity. Of course fans of Mort Sahl, mostly comedians and people like me who used to watch Sahl's old stuff with my older parents, will mostly argue that this is because people these days are too politically correct or not intelligent enough to understand Sahl. His comedy, they would argue, is simply too cutting edge for a world that has been dumbed-down by cancel culture obsessed liberal downers, also like myself, which is strange seeing as I am one of the only people under forty on the planet today who even knew who Mort Sahl was before modern comedians paid tribute to him after his death. It is also strange because today Mort Sahl's style of comedy has made quite the comeback, albeit without him this time around. Comedians like Dave Chapelle, Chris Rock, and Kevin Heart all follow Mort Sahl's basic formula: infusing outlandish and often downright rude critique of their political opponents into humor in order to get a few laughs. It is even more interesting that, much like Dave Chapelle, Mort Sahl fell out of favor of the political elite of his time after going a bit too far with some of his jokes. Sahl mocked the Kennedy administration and many of Kennedy's fans never went back for seconds. This also caused Sahl to go off the rails a bit; after the Kennedy murder, he began reading odd excerpts from the Warren Report on stage, and even did a bit of conspiracy theorizing about the events during his "comedy routine". This was not well received and Mort Sahl became unfunny for the first time in his life. Once again, oddly like Dave Chapelle, Mort Sahl made a triumphant return to comedy during the Nixon administration, and was very well liked by the democratic establishment once more. Dave Chapelle, of course solidified his return to comedy during the Trump years, promoting free speech above politeness, and an all out assault on people who are kind to the LGBTQIA folks. But Mort Sahl's triumphant return was short lived, as will be Dave Chapelle's of course. The thing about comedians like Sahl and Chapelle is that they are simply too political to keep the audience laughing in the long term; attributing the audience's lack of interest in political discourse to political correctness, which most people cannot even define, misses the point entirely. People watch comedy to relax, not to think about deep issues like whether there was a conspiracy involved in the Kennedy killing or whether or not free speech trumps trans rights. Trust me on this one, I went to school for this and I have performed for over twenty years. If there is one thing most people do not come to a comedy show for, it is odd conspiratorial rants about the "establishment". Lenny Bruce, another comedian who I would venture to say that most people my age have never heard of, followed this exact same trajectory. Bruce go off on saying shocking, political things so much during his routines that he would read excerpts from his court hearings on stage in an almost histrionic fashion. Bruce was very clearly trying to alter political viewpoints on stage; making people laugh became secondary for him. After awhile, people stopped biting and Bruce, like Sahl, died in obscurity. What I am trying to say here is that, though you may like politics onstage, most people do not. Comedy is about bringing people who are different together, but politics only reminds us of how different we are. I do not wish this on comedians; they do it to themselves. They try to control the thoughts of their audience by shaming them into aquiesence and, eventually they always fail. When an audience laughs to stop the pain, comedy dies.  

They say that only the strong survive. However, the truly strong do not boast about survival for they know that there is more to life than mere survival. The people who come up with fancy sayings and wise saws are nothing more than observers sitting on the sidelines. They know nothing of what it takes to be truly strong because coming up with catchphrases does not require strength. Real strength requires wit. One must be able to outsmart their opponent; those who are able to do this endure, while those who fail to do this end up in prison or dead. In order to outsmart others, one must be confident in themselves. One must never succumb to the pressure of the bickering populous. You go your own way; you make your own choices. This is strength: the will to abandon the crowd and go your own way. Not being liked takes guts. Most politicians have no guts. They are slaves to their followers, their polls, their internet studies; they will never upset their fans. Modern politics is nothing more than spinelessness fashion contest. Both Democrats and Republicans are terrified of their voters. These are weak leaders; they have no strength. The people rule these leaders because they are cowards. They hide their emotions from others; they fear that the fourth wall will be broken, that their performance will not receive an award for best preening. This fashion contest, this bullshit act performed for likes and adulation has no clear end in sight. Politicians of the day are people pleasers, which is why they are so painfully inefficient. The people do not want leaders to please them; they vote for leaders who will actually get things done. Fans can be bullies too and standing up to bullies is the ultimate form of strength. What is a following if it is not a violent mob of unruly individuals hoping to persuade you that they know best? What is a following but a church? What is a following but a violent mob? What is a following but a group of raging fundamentalists? What is a following but a hindrance, a blemish, an irrational hoard of group thinkers? Politicians today brag about being controlled by this unruly mob, this violent, insatiable group of primal beings motivated by nothing more than the will to win, the desire to be the best at something, anything. But winning does not require strength. Winning gets a person rewards and great fame. It is easy to win because all you have to do is please the mob. Tell them what they want to hear and they will elevate you to god like status so that you can be as lazy as you like. Losing requires strength. It requires strength when you lose your loved ones, your friends, your family. When those closest to you leave, when they mock you, when they spread lies about you, you must be strong. You must be strong to remain yourself. But are these politicians their true selves? No, they are performance artists who lack the strength to admit that they are performing. They live in a comfortable false reality. Does comfort require strength? No, not in the slightest. Comfort is for the lazy, for the weak, for the mob. The mob desires comfort and so do the leaders of the mob. That is why they adore each other so for they are all weak-minded and cowardly. These leaders lack the strength to admit to their mistakes. They lack the strength to feel their own emotions. They lack the strength to dress how they want to dress. They lack the strength to say what they want to say. Instead they give surveys so that you can dress them, so that you can tell them what to say, so that you can live their lives for them. They are empty vessels, hollow in every way. Their fans see themselves in these leaders and because their fans are vain this satisfies them, temporarily anyway. These so called leaders fail to see the danger in this. They fail to realize that all it takes is another weak leader who is willing to give the people even more to usurp their so called power. And so these leaders really have no strength at all.