The Democracy That Died In Darkness, MAGA 2.0: The Fork In The Road

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Finally I am going to be bringing it home. That acute moment when I became aware that there was something not right about what Trump said during one of his early covid news conferences. Those few words were the moment that planted the seed of doubt about Donald Trump for me and led me on a four plus year crusade to find answers. Today though, of all the research I have done, I will finally connect the beginning to the end of Trump's intended deceptions.

I've told this story many times over the last few years about my seed of doubt. That moment came when a speaker at one of the early covid news conferences finished and started shaking hands with people off to the side of the podium. When they got to Trump, Trump shook his hand and said, "maybe this will open up some jobs for our young people." I was sitting on the couch and I nearly fell off it trying to get to the remote to rewind back to what he said to make sure I heard him right. I rewound it four times and every time it sounded just like I thought it did. It didn't want to register that he said that. Elderly people were dying across the globe from covid, and that's all he could think of to say in regards to their deaths. Might as well have said to look on the bright side of it, it could open up some jobs for our young people. He doesn't lack any callous for such disregard, still, save it for another day, not when people are losing their loved ones. Though being the ardent supporter of Trump that I was, I was never able to overcome those words.

Today during the inauguration, Trump didn't place his hand upon the bible(s). There is significance in the bibles that were chosen but I am not going to get off into that right now. I want to point to the significance of not having placed his hand upon them. In a speech given by Elon Musk after Trump's election win, Elon was ecstatic on stage and announced that this win had brought them to a folk in the road. That folk is where influences of religious beliefs separates itself from the constitution, and the world will enter into a whole new era of influence under tech entrepreneurs to free the next generation from believing in falsehoods.

This was signified by the placement of the tech entrepreneurs directly behind the president as he was sworn into office but not only to that effect, but the description by Jarod Kushner in an interview, that for Saudi Arabia to continue on in its relationship with the United States, there was a prerequisite to dismantle parts of their extreme religious practices and bring in tech entrepreneurs as influencers to free the next generation from extreme held religious beliefs. Largely, in part, this may go back to what was described by Kushner in another interview that they had gone over the economic histories of the last seventy five years and seen what worked and didn't work and put forth a credible detailed substantive plan on how to move forward then refine it, because no one group has a monopoly on good ideas, get buy in, then they'd try and address the political issues.

Once you get to the political issues though, the influence of religion and how it intersects with politics couldn't be ignored. The one thing that doesn't or didn't work over the last seventy five years in resolving political conflicts was religion or the influence of religion there within the constructs of politics.

Jared Kushner: So it's an incredible people, that have been very repressed through bad leadership for a long time. So again, people were very surprised, the first reform, the second reform. Keep in mind you have the religious police, people thought if they tried this stuff they'd kill them, and he was able to kind of move so quickly on so many reforms, that he's freed that next generation. When we did our conference in Bahrain in 2019, um, one of the challenges we had was finding role models for young, middle eastern kids, Palestinian kids, who is the tech entrepreneurs, who is the Mark Zuckerburg, or the Elon Musk that these kids should look up to, now inside Saudi Arabia probably five months ago, I had a meeting with like 30 tech entrepreneurs, this guys building the "X" of Saudi, the "Y" of Saudi, their building all these great start ups, he's unleashed a whole new generation of that." (A Middle Eastern Dialogue With Jared Kushner, Harvard University, 2024)

Jared Kushner: We studied this problem, we've studied all the global economies that have been successful the last seventy five years, studied the economies where its failed, we've drawn from the best ideas, we customized this plan, for our work here we've built it off a lot of the great works that has been done in the past and we've done this, we've put forth a credible substantive detailed plan for how to move forward. Then what we'll do is refine it, again, nobody's got a monopoly on good ideas, we'll refine this, we'll get buy in, then we'll go try address the political solutions." (Time To Try Something New, Jared Kushner interview with Al Jazeera)

When people like Jarod Kushner says, like he did in his Time To Try Something New interview, that people who come with criticisms that it's very easy to say what your against and much harder to say what you are for, in essence he is saying he's willing to do what people would be against doing. That would include letting social media influencers like Zuckerburg and Musk guide the next generation of children away from what they consider the religious falsehoods they've been fed since childhood. In Musk own term, "it's remarkable what humans are capable of if they are fed falsehoods from they are children". Now that these decades long blue dog democrats have stepped out of the closet from behind the decades long blue dog democrat Trump, they can now pack up their DEI, woke, abortion up to birth, and whatever else they emptied out of the closet they were standing in and slowly indoctrinate children against religion using social media influencers.

Trump, the Lincoln bible together with his mothers was a symbolism of having freed himself from the confines of the indoctrination of religion by his mother. Trump found it hard to live with his conscience after having left best friend and mentor Roy Cohn abandon after it was found out he was a gay man dying of AIDS, afraid of his own abandonment if people found out. Something Trump regretted for years often walking around asking where his Roy Roy was. Now Trump and the rest of the blue dog democrats are going on a mission to free others. Jobs weren't the only thing they intended to free up for young people.