Maybe it's because the media has tortured me for so many years and has done so many unethical things that I can't trust its hysteria about him. I think he wants to be a good President. I think that the accusations that he doesn't care about the United States and only wants power are not true.
Perhaps I could have used his election to bolster my own popularity with the entertainment industry by refusing to think that he was capable of anything other than destroying the world, but that wasn't what I thought. I thought he was being underestimated, and it was clear to me from years of being bullied by the conglomerate that sometimes people want an enemy whom they can all hate more than they want anything else. They want to feel the solidarity of loathing someone together, and thinking of themselves as being oppressed, no matter the cost, and no matter what the reality is.
Maybe years of turmoil have also helped me to know that yelling at a President of the United States tends to be futile, and I think that yelling at this President would be particularly futile. If the temperament of the last President led him to ignore what I said or to smile icily while plotting his revenge, I think this President would not hesitate to yell even more loudly and/or to squash me like a bug.
Although I try not to yell at people and have only screeched continuously for 7 years because the conglomerate is evil and insane, and although I also try not to squash people, President Trump's personality is more similar to my personality than Mr. Obama's is. It's interesting that similarities of personality can transcend so many divisions of thought. I AM a Democrat. I care about the environment. I'm ProChoice. We really ought to hate each other, and I suppose he hates me sometimes, but talkative city types don't irk me for being talkative or from cities.
I also think the world has so many crises that people should be trying to be reasonable even when they feel like they can't control their tempers. So many people are suffering and dying every day that there's never been a worse time for ego and selfish power struggles.
Copyright L. Kochman, May 2, 2017 @ 3:23 a.m.
